The goalkeeper of the Yaroslavl hockey club was recognized as the best in the KHL
Ilya Isaev, Lokomotiv goalkeeper, was recognized as the best player in his role in the Kontinental Hockey League. Based on the results of September, the first month of the season. The results were summed up by League experts.
A special KHL expert commission identified the four best players in four categories: forward, defenseman, goalkeeper and newcomer. The experts assessed the amount of time that the nominees spent in the game, the number of games, and in the case of assessing the performance of goalkeepers, the reliability coefficient, the number of goals saved and the number of clean sheets.
Ilya Isaev took part in 7 ice battles in September, reflected 93.82% of shots on goal and has a reliability coefficient of 1.37. There are also “crackers”, there are 2 of them.
The best KHL defenseman for the month is Trevor Murphy from Sibir Novosibirsk, forward is Severstal Cherepovets player Kirill Pilipenko. The best newcomer is a graduate of the St. Petersburg hockey school, SKA forward Ivan Demidov.
