Kirill Kaprizov named NHL’s biggest star of the week, Marner and Shesterkin also honored

The NHL announced the three biggest stars of the past week after All-Star weekend. For the second time this season, Minnesota forward Kirill Kaprizov was named Player of the Week, followed by Mitchell Marner of Toronto and Igor Shesterkin of the NY Rangers.

Player of the Week Kirill Kaprizov

Minnesota Wild forward Kirill Kaprizov played in 4 games last week, scoring 12 points on 6 goals and 6 assists. He scored the most points in a game against the Vancouver Canucks (10:7), scoring 6 points for the first time in his career with a hat trick and 3 assists.

He scored the most points and was the top scorer last season. In addition, Kaprizov set 2 club records. No one else in Wild history has scored that many points in one game or collected that many points in one week. He has already recorded 7 three-point games this season.

He’s currently on an 8 game point streak in which he’s accumulated 18 points on 7 goals and 11 assists. He is 17th in the Canadian scoring with 63 points. Two years ago, he has also already known the feeling of what it is like to break the 100 point mark when he collected 108 points.

Marner’s second biggest star

Toronto Maple Leafs forward Mitchell Marner, who is Auston Matthews’ backcourt passer this season, has also played 4 games this season, amassing 10 points on 1 goal and 9 assists. In that period he collected the same number of assists as Connor McDavid.

In addition, Marner also set a club record by recording at least 2 assists in 6 consecutive games. No one in the long history of the Maple Leafs has done that before. Marner is currently 11th in Canadian scoring with 72 points.

Third star Shesterkin

The New York Rangers goaltender has contributed significantly to the Rangers’ 10 straight wins, tying a club record. In the period under review, he goaltended 3 games, which were obviously victorious, and had the highest number of hits in the league (119).

The 28-year-old goalkeeper has scored only one goal in each game and had a 97.5% save percentage. This season he has played in 38 games due to injuries, but 25 of them were victorious. In this statistic he is the 5th best goalkeeper.

Source: NHL