Best Players of the 2025-2026 twenty-seventh week

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

The League’s teams played 26 games last week, with 554 players (41 goalies, 185 defensemen, and 328 forwards) taking part in the action. The scoring was at 5.88 goals per game.

- Best goalie for the second time in his career was Mikhail Berdin (Sibir), who won one game from two last week. The Novosibirsk goalie faced 65 shots, or 32.5 per game, posting a 95.38% saves percentage and a goals-against average of 1.44. In Friday’s game against Barys, Berdin helped Sibir celebrate a shootout victory.

- Best defenseman for the ninth time in his career was Darren Dietz (Dinamo Minsk), who scored 4 (1+3) points in two games last week, with a plus-4 differential. The Bison’s blueliner also recorded one hit, blocked one shot, made one pass interception, and had one takeaway.

- Best forward for the second time in his career was Mikhail Grigorenko (Traktor), who scored 6 (3+3) points in three games last week, with a plus-5 rating. In Monday’s Traktor win over SKA (2:1), Grigorenko netted the game-winning goal. The Chelyabinsk forward also made two pass interceptions.

- Best rookie for the first time in his career was 20-years-old defenseman Vladislav Yusupov (Traktor), who scored 2 (0+2) points in three games last week, with a plus-2 differential. He also delivered one hit, blocked three shots, made two pass interceptions, and had two takeaways.