Best Players of the 2024-2025 tenth week

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

The League’s teams played 28 games last week, with 536 players (37 goalies, 178 defensemen, and 321 forwards) taking part in the action. The scoring was at 4.82 goals per game.

- Best goalie for the third time in his career was Dmitry Nikolayev (Spartak), who won three games from three last week. The Red-and-Whites’ goalie faced 100 shots, or 33.3 per game, with a save percentage of 97.00% and a goals-against average of 1.00.

- Best defenseman for the second time in his career was Jesse Graham (HC Sochi), who scored 4 (0+4) points in three games last week, with a plus-1 differential. He also blocked six shots and made one pass interception.

- Best forward for the sixth time in his career was Nikita Gusev (Dynamo Moscow), who scored 6 (3+3) points in three games last week, with a plus-2 differential. The Blue-and-Whites forward scored points and goals in each of last week’s games. He also made three pass interceptions and one takeaway. Gusev was awarded the Best of the week honors four times with SKA and twice with Dynamo Moscow.

- Best rookie for the first time in his career was forward Danil Pivchulin (Spartak), who scored two goals in two games last week. The young forward opened his scoring account in the league in Spartak Thursday’s win against CSKA (2:1) — the goal was also the game-winner for the Red-and-Whites. He also made one hit.