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The potential of including additional franchises to the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) has been an ongoing topic since the league's inception. In June 2012, the league presented a plan that would see expansion to as many as 64 teams in up to 22 countries. [1]
But after only one season, Lev was replaced by a team of the same name, Lev Praha, from Prague, Czech Republic, while Slovan Bratislava from Bratislava, Slovakia and Ukraine's Donbass from Donetsk joined the KHL as expansion teams for the 2012–13 season. [10] Lev and Slovan qualified for the playoffs in their first KHL season.
The 2024–25 KHL season is the 17th season of the Kontinental Hockey League. There are 23 teams that will compete in 68 regular season games, with a record-breaking 187 playing days, having begun on 3 September 2024 until through 23 March 2025.
Returned to KHL after plane tragedy: Lev Praha: Newly created team 2013–14 Admiral: Newly created team 28: Medveščak: Austrian EBEL: 2014–15: Donbass: Joined the Ukrainian Hockey Extra League prior to the 2015–16 season, after one year of inactivity. Lada Togliatti: Returned to the league 28: Lev Praha: Disbanded Jokerit: Liiga: Spartak ...
The potential of adding additional franchises in Canada had been an ongoing source of controversy for the NHL in recent years as numerous groups proposed expanding the league into a new Canadian city, or purchasing a struggling American franchise and relocating it north; to a certain extent, these issues continue even after the Atlanta Thrashers relocated to Winnipeg to become the country's ...
Expansion has been kicked down the road since Engelbert first floated it in 2021. The number of teams to join has varied over the years, as well as when they might do it.
If Milwaukee got a WNBA expansion franchise, what should the team be called? Gannett. JR Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. October 23, 2024 at 2:45 PM.
Expansion update. Silver said the league isn’t ready yet to formally go forward with any expansion talk. ... happens — the league adding two franchises in this round of expansion to push the ...