Best Players of the 21st Week: Pasquale, Murphy, Soshnikov, and Voronkov

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

- Best goalie was Edward Pasquale (Barys), who won two road games last week, against CSKA and Avtomobilist. The Kazakhstani franchise’s goalie had a saves percentage of 94.12% (he faced a total of 68 shots, with an average of 34 a night) and a goals-against average of 2.00.

- Best defenseman was Ryan Murphy (Neftekhimik), who all three games with his team last week, scoring 4 (2+2) players. The Canadian defenseman ended all the games with a positive plus/minus rating, being plus-7 (best result of the week).

- Best forward was Nikita Soshnikov (Salavat Yulaev), who scored 7 (5+2) points in three games last week (best result of the week). The Salavat Yulaev forward scored goals in all games, posting a hat-trick against SKA and posting no negative ratings, ending the week being plus-2. Moreover, he had 16 shots on goal and recorded 5 hits.

- Best rookie was forward Dmitry Voronkov (Ak Bars), who won two of three games last week with his team, scoring 2 (1+1) points. He posted the game-winning goal in the road game against Dinamo Riga. The 19-years-old forward posted no negative ratings, ending the week being plus-1. Voronkov had an average time on ice of 14 minutes and 13 seconds and recorded 3 hits.