1950–51 Soviet League season

The season 1950/51 was the fifth season of the Klass A as the highest Soviet Hockey League. The Soviet league title secured for the first time ever, the WWS MWO Moscow. Especially the final round caught the attention of the audience and the games that were played at Dynamo stadium in Moscow found regularly held before a crowd of 30,000 spectators.

Mode

The twelve teams in the Klass A were first divided into two groups of six teams. Each team played in the main round each one game against the other group opponents, limiting the number of matches per team was five. Then each group, the top three teams played in round-trip game in a final round for the championship, while the remaining six teams once each competed against every opponent in the placement round for seventh place. For a win, each team was given two points, a draw there was a point and a defeat.

Main Round

Group A

Sp = Matches, W = Wins, D = drawn, L = Loss, OTS = Overtime wins, OTN = Overtime defeat, SOS = Penalty victories, SON = Penalty defeat

Group B

Sp = Matches, W = Wins, D = drawn, L = Loss, OTS = Overtime wins, OTN = Overtime defeat, SOS = Penalty victories, SON = Penalty defeat

Final round

Sp = Matches, W = Wins, D = drawn, L = Loss, OTS = Overtime wins, OTN = Overtime defeat, SOS = Penalty victories, SON = Penalty defeat

Placement Round for 7th place

Sp = Matches, W = Wins, D = drawn, L = Loss, OTS = Overtime wins, OTN = Overtime defeat, SOS = Penalty victories, SON = Penalty defeat

Top scorers

Fat: Saisonbestwert

Soviet master

Goalkeepers: Grigori Mkrtytschan, Nikolai Puchkov

Defender Igor Gorshkov, Rewold Leonov, Pavel Schiburtowitsch, Viktor Tikhonov, Alexander Vinogradov

Attacker: Anatoly Arkhipov, Yevgeny Babich, Vsevolod Bobrov, Pyotr Kotov, Vladimir Nowoschilow, Viktor Shuvalov, Alexander Striganow, Anatoly Wiktorow

Players Coaches: Vsevolod Bobrov