The Kontinental Hockey League formally wrapped their seventeenth season tonight in Moscow with their annual Closing Ceremony, awarding the league’s top teams, players and executives for their performance this year, with eight former IHLC winners taking home trophies.

The big winner of the evening was Ufa forward Josh Leivo, who became just the second non-Russian (and first Westerner) to win the Golden Stick as League MVP, following his record-breaking season of 49 goals and 80 points in 62 games, breaking the KHL record for most goals in a season. Leivo also captured top goals and points honours, and was named to the league All-Star Team.

League champions Lokomotiv Yaroslavl took home the most awards for one team with four, with Danil Isayev (Top Goaltender), Igor Nikitin (Top Coach), Maxim Shalunov (Overtime Hero) and Alexander Radulov (Playoff MVP) taking home honours. The rest of the evening had awards split amongst seven other clubs, with two awards each for Avangard, SKA and Traktor, respectively.

Due to Russia‘s continued invasion of Ukraine, and subsequent ban from international competition and exodus of non-Russian teams and most non-Russian players, the only non-Russian trophy winners were Canadians Leivo and Trevor Murphy (Top Scoring Defender), while Top Coach Nikitin is a native of Kazakhstan, despite since coaching for Russia following the end of his playing career.

The KHL Award Trophy winners for the 2024-25 season (with winners in bold and an asterisk denoting former IHLC holders) are as follows:

Golden Stick (League MVP)
🇷🇺 Arytom Galimov (Ak Bars)*
🇨🇦 Josh Leivo (Salavat)
🇷🇺 Maxim Shabanov (Traktor)

Top Scorer (Most Points)
🇨🇦 Josh Leivo (Salavat)

Top Sniper (Most Goals)
🇨🇦 Josh Leivo (Salavat)

Top Scoring Defenceman
🇨🇦 Trevor Murphy (Sibir)

Best Troika (Top Scoring Line)
🇷🇺 Danil Aimurzin (Severstal)
🇷🇺 Mikhail Ilin (Severstal)
🇷🇺 Kirill Pilipenko (Severstal)*

Top Goaltender
🇷🇺 Danil Isayev (Lokomotiv)
🇷🇺 Vladislav Podyapolski (Dynamo)
🇷🇺 Nikita Serebryakov (Avangard)

Best Plus / Minus
🇷🇺 Arytom Galimov (Ak Bars)*

Alexei Cherepanov Award (Top Rookie)
🇷🇺 Ivan Demidov (SKA)
🇷🇺 Yegor Surin (Lokomotiv)
🇷🇺 Semyon Vyazovoi (Salavat Yulaev)

Gimayev Prize (Loyalty To Hockey)
🇷🇺 Ilya Kablukov (Avangard)*

Overtime Hero
🇷🇺 Maxim Shalunov (Lokomotiv)*

Best Coach
🇨🇦 Benoît Groulx (Traktor)*
🇷🇺 Viktor Kozlov (Salavat Yulaev)*
🇰🇿 Igor Nikitin (Lokomotiv)*

Valentin Sych Award (Best Director)
🇷🇺 Ivan Savin (Traktor)

Playoff MVP
🇷🇺 Alexander Radulov (Lokomotiv)*

Golden Helmet (KHL All-Star Team)
🇨🇦 Josh Leivo (Salavat)
🇷🇺 Alexander Nikishin (SKA)*
🇷🇺 Vladislav Podyapolski (Dynamo)
🇷🇺 Alexander Radulov (Lokomotiv)*
🇷🇺 Maxim Shabanov (Traktor)
🇷🇺 Damir Sharipzyanov (Avangard)*

Photo Credit: KHL – IIHF – HHOF – IOC