Alexander Mikhailovich Chernikov

Alexander Chernikov
Date of birth	4th September 1984
place of birth	Tolyatti , Russian SFSR
size	180 cm
Weight	86 kg
position	Left wing
number	# 12
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
until 2004	HK Lada Tolyatti
2002-2005	ZSK WWS Samara
2005-2007	HK tractor Chelyabinsk
2007-2010	HK Lada Tolyatti
2010–2012	HK Sibir Novosibirsk
2012-2014	Yaroslavl locomotive
2014-2015	HK Lada Tolyatti
2015-2016	HK Awangard Omsk
2016-2018	HK tractor Chelyabinsk
2018-2019	Admiral Vladivostok
since 2019	Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk

Alexander Michailowitsch Tschernikow ( Russian Александр Михайлович Черников ; born September 4, 1984 in Tolyatti , Russian SFSR ) is a Russian ice hockey player who has been under contract with Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk in the Continental Hockey League since May 2019 .

Career

Alexander Tschernikow began his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the youth department of the HK Lada Tolyatti , for whose second team he was active in the third-rate Pervaya League from 2002 to 2004 . At the same time, he came from the 2002/03 season for the ZSK WWS Samara in the Wysschaja Liga , the second Russian division, to use, in which he stayed until 2005 after leaving HK Lada. For the 2005/06 season, the attacker moved within the second Russian division to HK tractor Chelyabinsk , with whom he rose straight away as the second division champion in the super league. After a year at HK Tractor in the Super League, the Russian returned to the HK Lada Tolyatti, for whom he was on the ice from 2007 to 2010, initially in the Super League and from the 2008/09 season in the newly founded Continental Hockey League .

In 2010 the HK Lada was excluded from the KHL. Chernikov then left his hometown club and signed a contract with HK Sibir Novosibirsk , for which he played until the 2011/12 season and completed over 100 KHL games.

In May 2012 he received a contract with Lokomotive Yaroslavl and completed 123 KHL games for the club by 2014. He then returned to his hometown club in August 2014.

In May 2015 he moved to HK Avangard Omsk together with Yuri Anatoljewitsch Petrow .

Between 2016 and 2018, Chernikov was again under contract with HK Traktor Chelyabinsk and completed 115 KHL games for this, in which he collected 28 scorer points. He was then signed by Admiral Vladivostok in July 2018 .

Achievements and Awards

• 2006 Champion of the Vysschaya League and promotion to the Super League with the HK tractor Chelyabinsk

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
KHL main round	11	581	82	112	194	250
KHL playoffs	7th	62	7th	8th	15th	16
Super League main round	2	106	16	19th	35	89
Super League Playoffs	1	4th	0	0	0	6th

(Status: end of the 2018/19 season)

Web links

Commons : Alexander Chernikov  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Alexander Tschernikow at hockeydb.com (English)
• Alexander Tschernikow at eliteprospects.com (English)