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From KHL to VHL-2, all the best players of the season
After the end of the season, the three professional leagues - KHL, VHL and VHL-2 - awarded the best players and coaches.
Here the complete list
KHL
Regular Season MVP: Nikita Gusev (SKA St. Petersburg)
Top Scorer Award (goals+assists): Ilya Kovalchuck (SKA St. Petersburg)
Top Scorer Award (goals): Nigel Dawes (Barys Astana)
Highest-Scoring Defenseman Award: Philip Larsen (Salavat Yulaev Ufa)
Best Troika Award (Regular season highest-scoring offensive line): Linus Omark - Teemu Hartikainen - Joonas Kemppainen (Salavat Yulaev Ufa)
Best Plus-Minus Award: Maxim Shalunov (CSKA Moscow)
Playoffs MVP Award: Justin Azevedo (Ak Bars Kazan)
Best Goaltender: Pavel Francouz (Traktor Chelyabinsk)
Rookie of the Season (Alexei Cherepanov Trophy): Vitaly Kravtsov (Traktor Chelyabinsk)
Coach of the Year: Zinetula Bilyaletdinov (Ak Bars Kazan)
Gentleman on ice award: Defenseman: Egor Martynov (Avangard Omsk) - Forward: Nikita Gusev (SKA St. Petersburg)
Services to hockey award: Pavel Datsyuk (SKA St. Petersburg)
Iron Man award: Evgeny Timkin (Metallurg Magnitogorsk)
Team of the season:
Pavel Francouz (Traktor Chelyabinsk)
Nikita Tryamkin (Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg)
Bogdan Kiselevich (CSKA Moscow)
Nikita Gusev (SKA St. Petersburg)
Justin Azevedo (Ak Bars Kazan)
Dmitri Kagarlitsky (Severstal Cherepovets)
VHL
Top Scorer: Nikita Sedtikov (Gornyak Uchaly)
Best Player according to the votes of VHL players (Anatoli Firsov Trophy): Nikita Sedtikov (Gornyak Uchaly)
Best Goaltender: Alexander Samonov (Dinamo St. Petersburg)
Best Defenseman: Ilya Nazarevich (Dinamo St. Petersburg)
Best Forward: Alexander Shevchenko (Dinamo St. Petersburg)
Rookie of the Year: Vladislav Syomin (Ska-Neva St. Petersburg)
Coach of the Year: Leonids Tambijevs (Dinamo St. Petersburg)
VHL-2
League MVP: Alexander Brykin (Mordovia Saransk)
Team of the season:
Goalkeeper - Sergey Letunovsky (HK Tambov)
Defenders - Alexander Brykin (Mordovia Saransk), Alexander Yakovlev (HK Tambov)
Forwards - Dmitry Sarazov (Mordovia Saransk), Vladislav Tunik (HC Rostov), Alexei Efimov (HK Tambov )
Coach of the Year: Sergei Nurzhanov (HK Cheboksary)
Kirill Ustimenko
(G)
HK Chelny
CSK VVS Samara
Vladimir Sartakov
(G)
CSK VVS Samara
HK Chelny
Vladislav Appelgants
(F)
Olympia Kirovo-Chepetsk
Vadim Lukin
(D)
HK Mogilev
Tomas Bokros
(D)
Dukla Trencin
Michal Sersen
(D)
HC Slovan Bratislava
Steven MacLean
(D)
Cincinnati Cyclones
Cardiff Devils
Czech Rep.:
Tipsport extraliga |
1.liga |
2.liga
Slovakia:
Tipsport Extraliga |
1.liga
Sweden:
SHL |
HockeyAllsvenskan
Other: EBEL | Belarus | Croatia | Denmark | Estonia | France | Great Britain | Iceland | Italy | Latvia | Lithuania | MOL-liga | Norway | Poland | Romania | Serbia | Slovenia | Spain | NHL | AHL |
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