Dmitri Michailowitsch Schikin

Dmitri Shikin
Date of birth	August 28, 1991
place of birth	Elektrostal , Russian SFSR
size	178 cm
Weight	82 kg
position	goalkeeper
Catch hand	Left
Draft
KHL Junior Draft	2009 , 1st round, 3rd position Amur Khabarovsk
Career stations
2006-2009	Kristall Elektrostal
2010	Amur Khabarovsk
2010-2014	SKA Saint Petersburg HK WMF Saint Petersburg
2014	Atlant Moskovskaya Oblast
since 2014	HK Sochi

Dmitri Michailowitsch Schikin ( Russian Дмитрий Михайлович Шикин ; born August 28, 1991 in Elektrostal , Russian SFSR ) is a Russian ice hockey goalkeeper who has been playing for HK Sotschi in the Continental Hockey League since December 2014 .

Career

Dmitri Schikin began his career as an ice hockey player in the youth department of Kristall Elektrostal , for whose professional team he was active from 2006 to 2009 in the Vysschaya League , the second Russian division. Then the goalkeeper was selected in the first round in the KHL Junior Draft 2009 as the third player overall by Amur Khabarovsk . In the 2009/10 season , however, he was still without use in the Continental Hockey League . The entire 2010/11 season he spent in the multinational junior league Molodjoschnaja Chokkeinaja Liga , in which he first played for the junior team of Amur Khabarovsk and after his move in October 2010 for the junior team of the SKA Saint Petersburg .

In the 2011/12 season Schikin was a substitute goalkeeper in the KHL team of SKA Saint Petersburg, while he was used in parallel for the farm team HK WMF Saint Petersburg in the Wysschaja Hockey League .

In July 2014, the SKA exchanged him for a right to vote for the 2015 KHL Junior Draft from Atlant Moskovskaya Oblast . He played five games in the KHL for Atlant before returning to the SKA in mid-December 2014 in exchange for a vote for the same draft as before. Ten days later it was handed over to HK Sochi in exchange for compensation .

Achievements and Awards

• 2011 gold medal at the U20 World Junior Championship

Web links

• Dmitri Schikin at eliteprospects.com (English)