Dmitry Orlov awarded as MHL's playoff MVP

Washington Capitals' prospect Dmitry Orlov was awarded as MHL's playoff MVP. MHL is the newly formed Russian junior league and Orlov's team, Kuznetsk Bears, grabbed a silver medal, losing during the finals to Magnitogorsk's Steel Foxes.

Orlov skated in seven regular season games with the Bears, scoring an impressive seven goals and six assists. As his KHL team, Metallurg Novokuznetsk, didn't made the playoffs he was demoted to the junior team, where he dominated the blue lines with nine goal and nineteen points in seventeen games. But despite strong performances from him, Kings' prospect Maxim Kitsyn and Flyers' goalie Sergei Bobrovsky, the Foxes got the best of them with a final series score of 3-1.

Such a strong post season performance was good enough to award him with the trophy named after Vitaly Davydov, a legendary Soviet defenseman from Dynamo Moscow.

Dmitry Orlov is currently in Switzerland, training with Metallurg Novokuznetsk heading toward the 2010-11 season.