Bob Hartley Wins 7th Title With Lokomotiv Yaroslavl

Bob Hartley added another championship to a career built on finishing. Lokomotiv Yaroslavl beat Ak Bars Kazan to lift the Coupe Gagarine, giving the coach his second KHL consecration and seventh title overall.

Hartley and Lokomotiv Yaroslavl

The result gave Hartley another line on a resume that already includes junior championships at Hawkesbury and Laval, the Stanley Cup in Colorado, and success in Hershey and Zurich. He came back from peaceful retirement to lead this run in Russia, and the title extends a pattern that has followed him across leagues and continents.

Lokomotiv’s win over Ak Bars Kazan settled the championship series and delivered the trophy in Russia. For a coach from Hawkesbury, it also added a second KHL crown to the record he has built over decades.

Canadiens de Montréal Links

His name had circulated repeatedly around the Canadiens de Montréal in the past, but the club chose the audacity and youth of Martin Saint-Louis instead. That decision left Hartley elsewhere, and he answered again with a title rather than a return to Montréal.

The latest championship gives him seven titles in career and another proof that his stops in Colorado, Hershey, Zurich, Hawkesbury and Laval were not isolated peaks. For Lokomotiv, the season ends with Coupe Gagarine gold; for Hartley, it ends with a second consecration in the KHL and the same hard number that now defines the rest of the story: seven.