Best Players of the 2025-2026 fourth week

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

The League’s teams played 31 games last week, with 521 players (40 goalies, 170 defensemen, and 311 forwards) taking part in the action. The scoring was at 5.48 goals per game.

- Best goalie for the fifth time in his career was Vladislav Podyapolsky (Dynamo Moscow), who won one game from two last week. The Blue-and-Whites goalie faced 69 shots, or 34.5 per game, with a save percentage of 95.65% and a goals-against average of 1.45. Podyapolsky celebrated a regulation win in Sunday’s game against Torpedo (4:1), and had a shootout win in Thursday’s game against Traktor (3:2 SO).

- Best defenseman for the first time in his career was Robert Nardella (Torpedo), who scored 5 (1+4) points in four games last week, with a plus-3 differential. In Wednesday's game against SKA (3:2 OT), Nardella netted the game-winning goal. He also delivered one hit, blocked seven shots, and had one takeaway.

- Best forward for the second time in his career was Pavel Poryadin (Spartak), who scored 6 (4+2) points in three games last week, with a plus-1 rating. Poryadin netted the game-winning goal in Friday’s 3:1 Spartak win over SKA. He also made two hits, blocked three shots, and made one pass interception.

- Best rookie for the first time in his career was defenseman Daniil Karpovich (Avtomobilist), who scored 1 (0+1) points in two games last week, with a plus-5 differential. The 20-years-old defenseman also delivered four hits.