The KHL has a new name at the top of the list for one of its most prestigious records.
Sam Anas, a Potomac, Maryland native, scored twice for Dinamo Minsk on Friday to finish the 2025–26 season with 89 points (32g, 57a) in 67 games, tying the KHL’s single-season points record. He now sits even with Nikita Gusev, who recorded 89 points (23g, 66a) for Dynamo Moscow in 2023-24.
Missing just one game all year, Anas’ record-tying night came in Dinamo’s final regular-season game against Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg.
“In his third season in the KHL, Sam Anas demonstrated an outstanding level of hockey: the Dynamo Minsk forward tied the point record and became the top scorer by 15 points – the largest margin in the league’s history!” the league wrote on Instagram, as translated via Google Translate.
After scoring his first goal 18:30 into the first period, Anas tied the record just 4:44 into the second period. Defenseman Darren Dietz kept the puck alive in the offensive zone before feeding Vitali Pinchuk in the right faceoff circle. The young Belarusian then snapped a pass to Anas, who rifled a one-timer past goaltender Nikita Novosyolov.
“It’s all thanks to my amazing linemates, Pinner and Limo (Alex Limoges),” Anas said postgame. “I owe them everything, and nice pass on the goal. [Pinchuk] wins faceoffs and does everything.”
“It’s kind of hard to believe, honestly,” he continued. “KHL is such an incredible league and so many incredible players that have played here, and you look at the list of guys, and it’s something that means a lot and something that one day I’ll look back on my career, and this will be very high, if not the highest moment. It means a lot to me and my family. To do it here, with this crowd and this team, is awesome.”
Anas is one of just five players in league history to hit the 80-point mark, joining Gusev (89 and 82), Sergei Mozyakin (85), Joshua Leivo (80), and Alexander Radulov (80). The next-highest-scoring player this season was Avangard Omsk’s Konstantin Okulov (74), who finished 15 points behind Anas.
The 2025-26 season marks Anas’s third with Dinamo; he first signed with the club in 2023 after winning the Calder Cup in the AHL with the Hershey Bears.
Several players from that Bears team, including Mike Vecchione and current Capitals forwards Aliaksei Protas and Connor McMichael, congratulated Anas on Instagram.
“Is this good? 🐐,” McMichael wrote on his story.
Anas, Limoges (a fellow Calder Cup winner with the Bears), and Pinchuk have combined to form one of the deadliest lines in the KHL this season. Limoges finished third in the league in scoring with 73 points (24g, 49a), while Pinchuk finished sixth with 66 points (31g, 35a).
“I think our line has been incredible all year,” Anas said. “The biggest thing is that we’ve had so much fun playing together. We have great chemistry, we talk about plays, we talk about stuff that happened, and stuff that we see in the NHL or KHL in other highlights, and how we can incorporate that into our game. It’s just been a great mix of the three of us as players, and it’s been a lot of fun.”
Dinamo finished the campaign with a 39-19-10 record, ranking second in both the Tarasov Division and Western Conference and finishing behind only reigning KHL champion Lokomotiv Yaroslavl. Dinamo is set to start a first-round playoff series against Dynamo Moscow on Tuesday.
