Best Players of the 2023-2024 twenty-fourth week

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

The League’s teams played 40 games last week, with 583 players (46 goalies, 192 defensemen, and 345 forwards) taking part in the action. The scoring was at 4.97 goals per game.

- Best goalie for the fifth time in his career was Evgeny Alikin (Avtomobilist), who had two wins in three games with his team last week. The Yekaterinburg goalie faced 63 shots, or 21.3 per night, posting a saves percentage of 98.44% and a goals-against average of 0.43. Alikin posted a shutout in Avtomobilist’s win over Lokomotiv on Sunday (2:0).

- Best defenseman for the first time in his career was Yegor Savikov (Spartak), who scored 3 (2+1) points and a plus-1 differential in three games last week. Savikov potted the game-winner in Spartak’s win over Severstal on Saturday (5:3), blocked two shots, and had one takeaway.

- Best forward for the second time in his career was Kirill Semyonov (Ak Bars), who scored 5 (3+2) points with a plus-6 differential in four games last week. Semyonov netted the game-winner in Kazan’s win over Admiral on Monday (4:2), recorded nine hits, and had two takeaways and two pass interceptions.

- Best rookie for the second time in his career was goalie Ilya Nabokov (Metallurg), who won two games from two last week. The Magnitogorsk goalie faced 66 shots, or 33 per night, posting a saves percentage of 98.48% and a goals-against average of 0.50. Nabokov posted a shutout in Metallurg’s win over Amur on Thursday (2:0).