Best Players of the seventeenth Week: Hudacek, Lepisto, Jensen, and Anosov

The Kontinental Hockey League’s commission has determined the best players of the seventeenth week of the Regular Season in four categories.

- best goalie was Julius Hudacek (Spartak), who won two of three games last week, including two road matches. The Slovak goalie lost to Sochi only on SO. Hudacek posted a saves percentage of 97.74% (facing a total of 92 shots, 30.7 per game), with a goals-against average of 0.96 (best numbers of the week).

- best defenseman was Sami Lepisto (Jokerit), who won three of four games with his team last week, scoring 5 (2+3) points (best numbers of the week among defensemen). Lepisto posted the game-winning goal in the road match against Salavat Yulaev. The Finn blueliner posted no negative ratings, being plus-6 (again the best numbers of the week among defensemen), and had nine shots on goal.

- best forward was Niklas Jensen (Jokerit), who won three of four games with his team last week, scoring 8 (5+3) points (best numbers of the week among forwards). Jensen scored points in each game, posting a hat-trick in the road game against Dinamo Riga and a double against Spartak in Moscow. The Danish forward posted no negative ratings, ending the week plus-5.

- best rookie was forward Artyom Anosov (Dinamo Minsk), who had an assist in both last week’s games. These were Anosov’s first points in the KHL. The 20-years-old forward posted no negative ratings, ending the week plus-1, and logged an average time on ice of 10 minutes and 27 seconds.