Best Players of the 2024-2025 sixth week

The Kontinental Hockey League’s commission has determined the best players of the 2024-2025 Regular Season’s sixth week in four categories.

The League’s teams played 28 games last week, with 545 players (40 goalies, 182 defensemen, and 323 forwards) taking part in the action. The scoring was at 5.29 goals per game.

- Best goalie for the second time in his career was Dmitry Shikin (Vityaz), who won two games from two last week. The Vityaz goalie faced 75 shots, or 37.5 per game, with a save percentage of 94.67% and a goals-against average of 1.98. Shikin was awarded the Best goalie honors at the start of the 2022-2023 season, when Alexander Nikishin was named Best defenseman for the first time.

- Best defenseman for the sixth time in his career was Alexander Nikishin (SKA), who scored 4 (2+2) points in three games last week, with a plus-1 differential. He also potted the game-winning goal in Monday’s SKA win over Lokomotiv (4:3 OT). Nikishin also recorded three hits, blocked eight shots, and had three pass interceptions. Nikishin is the first Russian blueliner to receive this award six times. The overall record is still held by Kevin Dallman (9), followed at eight by Darren Dietz and Juuso Hietanen.

- Best forward for the first time in his career was Nikita Artamonov (Torpedo), who scored 5 (2+3) points in three games last week, with a plus-4 differential. The Nizhny Novgorod forward also recorded one hit, blocked one shot, and had one pass interception.

- Best rookie was goalie Dmitry Gamzin (CSKA), who won one game from two last week. The CSKA goalie faced 59 shots, or 29.5 per game, posting a 99.42% save percentage and a goals-against average of 1.44. Zavragin posted a shutout in CSKA’s win over Salavat Yulaev on Tuesday (2:0).