After successfully completing their first full season since 2019, the Kontinental Hockey League today honoured the best players of the 2020-21 season, handing out their annual awards at a gala event in Moscow, Russia.

The major winners of the evening were the aforementioned Triple Gold Club member Datsyuk, who captured both top honours as MVP Voted by Fans and the Loyalty Hockey Award, and Shipachyov, who won League MVP and was named to the “Team Of The Season,” along with winning Top Scorer honours. Shipachyov’s teammate Dmitrij Jaškin won Top Scorer and was also named to the Team Of The Season, while the Gagarin Cup Champions, Avangard Omsk, saw trophies for defender Oliwer Kaski (named to the Team Of The Season), bench boss Bob Hartley winning Coach Of The Year, and for Top Rookie Yegor Chinakhov.

Other winners included Lokomotiv’s Eddie Pasquale winning Top Goaltender, while Salavat Yulaev’s Finnish trio of Teemu Hartikainen, Markus Granlund and Sakari Manninen took home Top Troika as the top scoring offensive line. The scoring trophies were rounded out by Americans Chris Wideman of Torpedo (Top Scoring Defender) and Brian O’Neill of Jokerit (Best Plus Minus), while the Team Of The Season was completed with Pasquale, Hartikainen and Mat Robinson of CSKA. The evening’s winners spanned five countries out of a possible seven (with only Lars Johansson of Sweden and Igor Nikitin of Kazakhstan being shut out), with six Russians, three Finns, two Americans, two Canadians and one Czech bringing home hardware.

The KHL Award Trophy winners for the 2020-21 season (with winners in bold and an asterisk denoting former IHLC holders) are as follows:

Golden Stick (League MVP)
🇫🇮 Teemu Hartikainen (Salavat Yulaev)*
🇷🇺 Vadim Shipachyov (Dynamo)*
🇷🇺 Damir Zhafyarov (Torpedo)*

Priceless Player (MVP Voted By Fans)
🇷🇺 Pavel Datsyuk (Avtomobilist)*

Top Goaltender
🇷🇺 Timur Bilyalov (Ak Bars)
🇸🇪 Lars Johansson (CSKA)*
🇨🇦 Edward Pasquale (Lokomotiv)

Alexei Cherepanov Award (Top Rookie)
🇷🇺 Zakhar Bardakov (Vityaz)*
🇷🇺 Yegor Chinakhov (Avangard)*
🇷🇺 Maxim Sorkin (CSKA)*

Top Troika (Highest Scoring Offensive Line)
🇫🇮 Markus Granlund (Salavat Yulaev)*
🇫🇮 Teemu Hartikainen (Salavat Yulaev)*
🇫🇮 Sakari Manninen (Salavat Yulaev)*

Coach Of The Year
🇨🇦 Bob Hartley (Avangard)
🇰🇿 Igor Nikitin (CSKA)*
🇷🇺 Andrei Razin (Severstal)*

Sergei Gimayev Prize (Loyalty To Hockey)
🇷🇺 Pavel Datsyuk (Avtomobilist)*

Golden Helmet (Team Of The Season)
🇫🇮 Teemu Hartikainen (Salavat Yulaev)*
🇨🇿 Dmitrij Jaškin (Dynamo)*
🇫🇮 Oliwer Kaski (Avangard)*
🇨🇦 Edward Pasquale (Lokomotiv)
🇨🇦 Mat Robinson (CSKA)*
🇷🇺 Vadim Shipachyov (Dynamo)*

A few trophies for the evening were already pre-determined, whether based purely on seasonal statistics, or being awarded at the conclusion of the Gagarin Cup playoffs.

Gagarin Cup Playoffs MVP
🇷🇺 Sergei Tolchinski (Avangard)*

Top Scorer
🇷🇺 Vadim Shipachyov (Dynamo)*

Top Goal Scorer
🇨🇿 Dmitrij Jaškin (Dynamo)*

Top Scoring Defenceman
🇺🇸 Chris Wideman (Torpedo)

Best Plus Minus
🇺🇸 Brian O’Neill (Jokerit)

Photo Credit: KHL – IIHF – HHOF – IOC