Best Players of the 2022-2023 twenty-fifth week

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

Last week, the League’s teams played 33 games, with 566 players (40 goalies, 192 defensemen, and 334 forwards) taking part in the action. The scoring was at 6.33 goals per game.

- Best goalie for the first time in his career was Mikhail Berdin (HC Sochi) who won three games from three last week. Berdin faced 126 shots, or 42 per night, posting a saves percentage of 94.44% and a goals-against average of 2.34. In the game against Neftekhimik, Berdin had 61 saves, becoming the third goalie in history to post more than 60 saves in a regular-season game.

- Best defenseman for the second time in his career Andrei Mironov (Dynamo Moscow), who scored 4 (2+2) points in three games last week. Both of his goals were game winners for Dynamo. He also recorded three hits and blocked nine shots.

- Best forward for the fourth time in his career was Sergei Plotnikov (CSKA), who scored 7 (5+2) points in four games last week. Plotnikov posted no negative ratings, ending the week with a plus-8 differential (best figures in the week). Plotnikov also recorded 13 hits, blocked two shots, and had one takeaway.

- Best rookie for the third time in his career was forward Matvei Michkov (HC Sochi), who scored 7 (2+5) points in four games last week. Michkov posted no negative ratings, ending the week with a plus-6 differential. He also recorded one hit, blocked one shot, and had two takeaways. In the game against Kunlun Red Star he broke HC Sochi’s record for points in a single game.