KHL announces there will be no Gagarin Cup champion in 2020

This just in, the KHL has announced that there will be NO Gagarin Cup champion this season.

Read below for an announcement from the Associated Press:

MOSCOW — The Kontinental Hockey League says it will not name a champion after it stopped the season part-way through the playoffs because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The Russia-based league shut down in March but didn’t immediately decide how the final standings would be determined. The league is widely considered to be the strongest outside the NHL.

The KHL says the eight teams still in the playoffs at the time the season ended will be ruled as jointly finishing in the top eight positions

While the league will not award a champion, they have taken the odd step of releasing its final standings for the 2019-20 season:

KHL has determined the final standings of 2019-20 season.

The teams which clinched Round 2 of 2020 #GagarinCup Playoffs to be ranked at a single '1-8 place' (in alphabetical order). Teams from 9 to 24 ranked according to usual ranking criteria. pic.twitter.com/C2ntWGQwRJ
— KHL (@khl_eng) May 7, 2020

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