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Nikita Zaitsev wins another award

After the bronze medal and the all-star team at the World Championships, Nikita Zaitsev had one more award to win at the annual KHL awards ceremony.

Ilya Sorokin, Nikita Zaitsev and Sergei Mozyakin sort out their Golden Helmet awards at the KHL awards ceremony.

The KHL Awards were held yesterday, and each year a team of all-stars, the best at each position are selected by a ballot of the head coaches. This year the winners were:

The chosen few for the VIII season were: goaltender Ilya Sorokin (CSKA), defensemen Nikita Zaitsev (CSKA) and Chris Lee (Metallurg Magnitogorsk), plus forwards Alexander Radulov (CSKA), Sergey Mozyakin (Metallurg Magnitogorsk) and Jan Kovar (Metallurg Magnitogorsk).