KHL announced the names of the best players of the first round of the Gagarin Cup – 2025
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The Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) has named the best players of the first round of the 2025 Gagarin Cup. This was announced on April 9 by the KHL press service.
The names of the winners of the first stage of the playoffs in four nominations were determined by the commission based on data provided by the statistics department of the Central Information Bureau of the KHL and match analytics. So, 385 hockey players took part in 47 games of the first round, with an average performance of 5.6 goals per game.
Nikita Serebryakov (Avangard) was named the best goalkeeper for the third time in his career. <...> Grigory Dronov (Traktor) was recognized as the best defender for the first time in his career. <...> Grigory Dronov (Traktor) was recognized as the best defender for the first time in his career. <...> Ivan Demidov (SKA) was recognized as the best newcomer for the first time in his career," the message says.
On the eve it was reported that the striker of the St. Petersburg hockey club (HC) SKA Ivan Demidov will become a player of the National Hockey League (NHL) Montreal Canadiens team. It was noted that the rights to the KHL player would remain with the Russian club: if he could not gain a foothold in the NHL, he would return to St. Petersburg.
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