Nikolai Nikolayevich Prokhorkin

Nikolai Prochorkin
Date of birth	17th September 1993
place of birth	Chelyabinsk , Russia
size	188 cm
Weight	83 kg
position	Left wing
number	# 74
Shot hand	Left
Draft
KHL Junior Draft	2010 , 2nd round, 26th position Vitjas Chekhov
NHL Entry Draft	2012 , 4th round, 121st position Los Angeles Kings
Career stations
until 2010	Vityaz Chekhov
2010–2012	HK CSKA Moscow
2012	Manchester monarchs
2012-2015	HK CSKA Moscow
2015-2016	Salawat Yulayev Ufa
2016-2019	SKA Saint Petersburg
2019-2020	Los Angeles Kings
since 2020	HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk

Nikolai Prokhorkin ( Russian Николай Николаевич Прохоркин ; English transcription: Nikolai Nikolayevich Prokhorkin * 17th September 1993 in Chelyabinsk ) is a Russian ice hockey player who since July 2020 when Metallurg Magnitogorsk of the Kontinental Hockey League is under contract (KHL) and there plays on the position of the left winger .

Career

Nikolai Prochorkin began his career as an ice hockey player in the youth department of Vityas Chekhov , where he was active until 2010. His team selected him in the KHL Junior Draft 2010 in the second round as the 26th player, so that no other KHL team could acquire his transfer rights. Nevertheless, the attacker then moved to HK CSKA Moscow , for whose professional team he made his debut in the Continental Hockey League in the 2010/11 season . In his rookie year , he remained pointless and punished in six games. In parallel to playing with CSKA in the KHL, he played for its junior team Krasnaja Armija in the multinational youth league Molodjoschnaja Chokkeinaja Liga and won the Kharlamov Cup with the team in the 2010/11 season , the championship title of the MHL.

In September 2012 Prochorkin received an NHL entry contract with the Los Angeles Kings and played for the Manchester Monarchs in the American Hockey League until November of the same year before he dissolved his contract and returned to CSKA.

In the 2015/16 season he was under contract with Salawat Julajew Ufa and scored 43 points scorer in 74 KHL games for Ufa. In July 2016, he received a three-year contract offer from SKA Saint Petersburg , which he accepted. There the attacker won the KHL playoffs for the Gagarin Cup in his first year and became the Russian champion . After increasing his personal statistics in the 2018/19 season to a point average of 1.0 (41 out of 41 games), he moved again to the Los Angeles Kings in the NHL in May 2019 and signed a one-year contract there. With only 14 points from 43 appearances, he did not make the breakthrough there, and so the Russian returned to the KHL after only one season in July 2020, where he joined HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk .

International

In addition to numerous appearances for the Russian national team during the Euro Hockey Tour since 2013 Prochorkin took the part Olympic athletes from Russia at the Winter Olympics in 2018 in South Korean Pyeongchang part. He won the gold medal with the team under the neutral flag, to which he contributed two goals in six games. He scored both goals in the 4-0 preliminary round victory over the United States .

Achievements and Awards

• 2011 Kharlamov Cup win with Krasnaya Armia Moscow
• 2014 participation in the KHL All-Star Game
• 2017 Gagarin Cup win and Russian champion with SKA Saint Petersburg

International

• 2018 gold medal at the Olympic Winter Games

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

				Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2010/11	Krasnaya Armia Moscow	MHL		46	23	17th	40	42		16	3	5	8th	10
2010/11	HK CSKA Moscow	KHL		6th	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Krasnaya Armia Moscow	MHL		15th	9	17th	26th	47		16	2	9	11	14th
2011/12	HK CSKA Moscow	KHL		15th	1	1	2	4th		4th	0	1	1	2
2012/13	Manchester monarchs	AHL		8th	0	1	1	6th		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	HK CSKA Moscow	KHL		14th	2	1	3	10		9	3	1	4th	0
2012/13	THK Tver	WysHL		5	2	2	4th	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	HK CSKA Moscow	KHL		52	19th	18th	37	47		4th	1	1	2	16
2014/15	HK CSKA Moscow	KHL		41	9	11	20th	15th		4th	0	0	0	2
2014/15	HK Buran Voronezh	WysHL		7th	1	0	1	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Salawat Yulayev Ufa	KHL		55	19th	17th	36	91		19th	2	5	7th	18th
2016/17	SKA Saint Petersburg	KHL		43	6th	8th	14th	47		16	3	5	8th	12
2017/18	SKA Saint Petersburg	KHL		47	16	17th	33	24		4th	1	1	2	4th
2018/19	SKA Saint Petersburg	KHL		41	20th	21st	41	10		11	2	4th	6th	4th
2019/20	Ontario Reign	AHL		4th	0	2	2	2		-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Los Angeles Kings	NHL		43	4th	10	14th	6th		-	-	-	-	-
MHL total				61	32	34	66	89		32	5	14th	19th	24
Wysschaja Hockey League total				12	3	2	5	8th		-	-	-	-	-
KHL total				314	92	94	186	248		71	12	18th	30th	58
AHL total				12	0	3	3	8th		-	-	-	-	-
NHL overall				43	4th	10	14th	6th		-	-	-	-	-

International

Represented the Olympic athletes from Russia at:

• Olympic Winter Games 2018

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2018	OA from Russia	Olympia			6th	2	0	2	2
Men overall					6th	2	0	2	2

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; ¹  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

Commons : Nikolai Prochorkin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Nikolai Prochorkin in the database of the National Hockey League (English)
• Nikolai Prochorkin at eliteprospects.com (English)