Another homegrown Chelyabinsk player, Konstantin Panov, who returned to Traktor after five seasons of absence, became the team's goal scoring leader. Traktor kept all of its leaders for the 2012–13 season. Unlike many other clubs in the league Chelyabinsk did not sign any NHL players who were returning to Europe during the NHL lockout. Facing much stronger competition this time Traktor finished the regular season in the third place of the Eastern Conference. Kuznetsov continued his successful career leading the team in points, goals and assists. 17 years old forward Valeri Nichushkin became that season's major breakthrough for Chelyabinsk, later in 2013 he won the Cherepanov Trophy as the KHL's Rookie of the Year and was picked in the top 10 of the NHL Entry Draft by the Dallas Stars. On its way to the Gagarin Cup Finals Traktor had to endure three seven game series against Barys Astana, Avangard Omsk and Ak Bars Kazan, all three of those rounds were won back by the team from the position of 3-1 down in the series. One of the main components of the success was goaltender Michael Garnett who had 5 shutouts during the post-season and GAA of 1.86. However, the team was less fortunate in the final games played versus the defending champions Dynamo Moscow. Failing to take the lead in the series Traktor ultimately lost it 4-2. Season-by-season KHL record Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, OTW = Overtime/shootout wins, OTL = Overtime/shootout losses, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against Players Current roster Head coaches Viktor Vasiliev, 1948–52 Vasily Karelin, 1952–54 Sergei Zakhvatov, 1954–62 Nikolai Sidorenko, 1962–64 Aleksandr Novokreshchenov, 1964 Viktor Stolyarov, 1964–65 Vladislav Smirnov, 1965 Albert Danilov, 1965–66 Viktor Stolyarov, 1968–73 Albert Danilov, 1973–74 Anatoly Kostryukov, 1974–78 Gennadi Tsygurov, 1978–84 Anatoly Shustov, 1984–87 Gennadi Tsygurov, 1987–90 Valery Belousov, 1990–95 Anatoly Kartaev, 1995 Sergei Grigorkin, 1995–99 Anatoly Timofeev, 2000–01 Sergei Paramonov, 2001 Aleksandr Glazkov, 2001–02 Nikolai Makarov, 2002–03 Anatoly Timofeev, 2003–05 Anatoly Bogdanov, 2005 Gennadi Tsygurov, 2005–07 Andrei Nazarov, 2007–10 Andrei Sidorenko, April 2010 - October 2010 Valery Belousov, 2010–2014 Karri Kivi, May 2014 - October 2014 Andrei Nikolishin, October 2014 – November 2015 Anvar Gatiyatulin, November 2015 – April 2018 German Titov, June 2018 – October 2018 Alexei Tertyshny, October 2018 – April 2019 Pēteris Skudra, April 2019 – November 2019 Vladimir Yurzinov, November 2019 – April 2020