Kazakhstan Hockey Championship
The Kazakh Hockey Championship (Russian Чемпионат Казахстана по Хоккею ) is played between clubs Hockey Kazakhstan Kazakhstan since independence from the Soviet Union. The first edition took place in the 1992/93 season. The record holder is Kaszink - Torpedo Ust- Kamenogorsk with a total of 13 championship titles.
History
Until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991, played the Hockey Club of Kazakh SSR in the Soviet Wysschaja League and Perwaja league. The last time the Kazakh teams participated in the 1991/92 season in the game operating in the Soviet Union in part. The flagship of the Kazakh SSR was at this time Torpedo Ust- Kamenogorsk, trying to keep in the upper middle of the league connection at the top clubs from Moscow.
With the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Declaration of Independence of Kazakhstan and the merger of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and the Wysschaja League was deposed as the highest ice hockey league. It was replaced for 1992/ 93 for the following four years, the International Hockey League. At the same time, also the Kazakh Hockey Association decided to form their own championship and the Kazakh Hockey Championship was held for the first time for the 1992/93 season. However, in order to remain competitive, reported Torpedo Ust -Kamenogorsk and Karaganda Awtomobilist (later than Stroitel Karaganda Karaganda and Bulat ) parallel to the Kazakh championship continues for the International Hockey League. After the International Hockey League was disbanded in the summer of 1996 and replaced by the Russian Super League, it was to be no longer possible to represent the Kazakh clubs within the Russian league. Torpedo Ust- Kamenogorsk played during the 1995/96 season, therefore, parallel to the second-rate Russian Wysschaja league. Although a second rank in the main round, the team was not eligible to participate in the relegation round of the Super League. Other Kazakh team were already accrued in previous years, the third-rate Perwaja league.
The Kazakh championship developed sluggishly in the early years. Per season reported four to five teams for the competition, though with up to four teams - back to the Under-17 Junior - the top clubs Torpedo Ust- Kamenogorsk. Could each sovereign secure the championship in the first six years. In the season 1998/99 HK Bulat Temirtau broke the winning streak Ust- Kamenogorsks and secured the league title for the first time. The giants had, however, also reported no team for this year's competition. In the following six years Torpedo Ust- Kamenogorsk ( from 2001 as Kaszink Torpedo Ust- Kamenogorsk ) won the title again unchallenged and the average number of participants increased to seven to eight teams. The record so far was recorded in the 1999/2000 season, as nine teams reported.
With the 2005/06 season, the dominance of Kaszink - Torpedo Ust- Kamenogorsk slowly began to wane. Kasachmys Karaganda won his first national championship in a direct duel with the series champion. Kaszink Torpedo won the game in 2006/ 07 his last title.
During this time, more and more Kazakh team migrated into the Russian leagues to play there permanently at a high level. For the season 2007/ 08, the Kazakh federation and therefore decided because with ten teams, a new record was set up to divide the league into a preliminary and final rounds. In addition to the later KHL Barys Astana participants and Kaszink - Torpedo Ust- Kamenogorsk, in 2007 /08, the HK Kasachmys Satpajew and set in the 2008/09 season of HK Saryarka Karaganda for the final round. The league title secured each Barys Astana, which became through his participation in the Kontinental Hockey League to the new figurehead of the Kazakh hockey.
Before the season 2009 /10, five of the six teams operating in the Russian leagues withdrew from the match operation. The Kazakh Association, which had divided the travel expenses of teams paid to Russian opponents, had announced in January 2009 that its own league 'm being called a game working throughout the season to life. At its gaming operations took all teams with the exception of Barys Astana and Kaszink Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk, which remained in the Kontinental Hockey League and the League Wysschaja, in part. The title won for the first time HK Saryarka Karaganda, who won both in the main round and the playoffs. In the following season the previous year's finalist HK Beibarys Atyrau was able to prevail and also won for the first time the Kazakh champion.
Mode of the 2012/13 season
The season is in part. Into three sections
In the first stage the 10 teams play four times " everyone against everyone " and use this to determine the placings 1-10. In the second stage the teams a simple game of everyone against everyone. The five top-ranked teams have a home game more.
A win in regulation time of 60 minutes, a team gets three points, the losing opponent gets nothing. With wins in overtime or shootout receives one team only two points, while the loser after all, still get one point.
Following the regular season, the playoffs, for which qualify the eight highest point totals follow. The quarter-finals of the play-offs will be played in the mode best-of -five and the semi-finals and finals for the Best -of -Seven mode.
Participants in the 2012/13 season
- HK Almaty
- Barys Astana 2
- HK Astana
- HK Beibarys Atyrau
- HK Saryarka Karaganda 2
- HK Arlan Kokshetau
- Irtysh Pavlodar HK
- Gornjak Rudny
- HK Arystan Temirtau
- Kaszink - Torpedo Ust- Kamenogorsk 2