Best Players of the 2026-2027 eighth week

The Kontinental Hockey League’s commission has determined the best players of the 2026-2027 Regular Season’s eighth week in four categories.

The League’s teams played 29 games last week, with 514 players (38 goalies, 172 defensemen, and 304 forwards) taking part in the action. The scoring was at 4.86 goals per game.

- Best goalie for the fourth time in his career was Maxim Motorygin (Dynamo Moscow), who won two games from two last week. The Blue-and-Whites goalie faced 63 shots, or 31.5 per game, posting a 98.44% save percentage and a goals-against average of 0.50. In Sunday’s Dynamo Moscow win against Dinamo Minsk, Motorygin collected his tenth career shutout.

- Best defenseman for the first time in his career was Vasily Machulin (Amur), who scored 3 (1+2) points in three games last week, with a plus-4 differential. The Khabarovsk blueliner also delivered three hits, blocked seven shots, made one pass interception, and had one takeaway.

- Best forward for the first time in his career was Yegor Vinogradov (Torpedo), who scored 6 (5+1) points in three games, with a plus-3 differential. The Nizhny Novgorod forward potted the game-winning goal in his team’s wins against SKA on Tuesday (4–3) and Spartak on Sunday (3–1) Throughout the week, Vinogradov also delivered ten hits, blocked one shot, made two pass interceptions, and had one takeaway.

- Best rookie for the third time in his career was 21-years-old forward Maxim Zagrebin (Salavat Yulaev), who scored 2 (2+0) points in two games last week, with a plus-3 differential. He also made one pass interception.