Best Players of the 2025-2026 second week

The Kontinental Hockey League’s commission has determined the best players of the 2025-2026 Regular Season’s second week in four categories.

The League’s teams played 29 games in the second week, with 502 players (34 goalies, 169 defensemen, and 299 forwards) taking part in the action. The scoring was at 5.62 goals per game.

- Best goalie for the second time in his career was Adam Huska (Admiral), who won two games from three last week. The Vladivostok goalie faced 84 shots, or 28 per game, posting a save percentage of 96.43% and a goals-against average of 0.97. In games against Sibir (2:0) and the Shanghai Dragons (4:0), the Slovak netminder posted his first shutouts of the season, and in the game against Dynamo Moscow (3:4 SO) he lost only after the postgame shootout.

- Best defenseman for the first time in his career was Daniil Orlov (Spartak), who scored 5 (2+3) points in three games last week. The Red-and-Whites defenseman posted the game-winning goal in Sunday’s win over Traktor (5:3) and also made one hit, blocked five shots, made two pass interceptions and had one takeaway.

- Best forward for the first time in his career was Danil Yurtaikin (Neftekhimik), who scored 6 (2+4) points in three games last week. The Nizhnekamsk forward posted game-winning goals in the games against Ak Bars (2:1) and Avtomobilist (4:1), and also blocked one shot and made two pass interceptions.

- Best rookie for the first time in his career was forward Maxim Fyodorov (Metallurg), who scored 2 (1+1) points in three games last week. He logged an average time on ice of eleven minutes and ten seconds. He also blocked two shots, made one pass interception and had two takeaways.