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* Executive Vice President & Hockey Operations Director: Mitrofan Bychkov
* Director of Player Safety: Nikita Sharapov
== Season structure ==▼
The league has been divided into the Northern Conference and the Southern Conference since 1976. In the current season, both conferences are divided into two divisions which contain six teams each. Each team plays four games against each division opponent (20), three games against each non-division conference opponent (18), and two games against each non-conference opponent (24) for a total of 62 games.
The league's regular season standings are based on a point system. Two points are awarded for a win, one point for losing in overtime or a shootout, and zero points for a loss in regulation. At the end of the regular season, the team that finishes with the most points in each division is crowned the division champion, and the league's overall leader is awarded the Commissioner's Trophy.
Eight teams from each conference qualify for the playoffs: the top three teams in each division plus the two conference teams with the next highest number of points (wild cards). The playoffs are organized as an elimination tournament where two teams play each other in a best-of-seven series in order to move on to the next round. Within each conference there are quarterfinals, semifinals, and finals. The winners of the conference finals proceed to play each other for the Polivanov Cup.
In all rounds, the higher-ranked team is awarded home-ice advantage, with four of the seven games played at this team's home venue. In the Polivanov Cup Final, the team with the most points during the regular season has home-ice advantage.
==Teams==
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==Game==
[[File:NHL Hockey Rink.svg|thumb|316x316px|Diagram of a VHL hockey rink: 1. Penalty boxes
▲# Team benches
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Every Volkian Hockey League regulation game is 60 minutes long. The game is broken up into three 20-minute periods with an intermission between each period. At the end of regulation time the team with the most goals wins the game. If a game is tied after regulation time, overtime ensues. During the regular season, overtime is a five-minute, three-on-three sudden death period in which whoever scores first wins the game.
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Fighting in the VHL results in major penalties being assessed against the players. A penalized team usually cannot replace a player that has been penalized on the ice and is short-handed for the duration of the penalty. However if the penalties are coincidental, for example when two players fight, both teams remain at full strength. Minor penalties end after either two minutes or if the team on the power play scores a goal. In contrast major penalties must be served to their full completion, regardless of number of goals scored during the power play.
▲==Season structure==
==Trophies and awards==
== List of champions ==
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