Dmitri Sergejewitsch Schitikow

Dmitri Zhitikov
Date of birth	January 21, 1986
place of birth	Tyumen , Russian SFSR
size	177 cm
Weight	86 kg
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
until 2004	HK CSKA Moscow
2004-2005	HK Dinamo Minsk Amur Khabarovsk
2005-2010	HK Dynamo Moscow
2010-2011	SKA Saint Petersburg HK WMF Saint Petersburg
2011	Severstal Cherepovets
2011-2013	Amur Khabarovsk
2013	HK Sibir Novosibirsk
2013-2017	HK Vitjas
since 2018	HK Arlan Kökschetau

Dmitri Sergejewitsch Schitikow ( Russian Дмитрий Сергеевич Шитиков ; born January 21, 1986 in Tjumen , Russian SFSR ) is a Russian ice hockey player who has been under contract with HK Arlan Kökschetau since July 2018 .

Career

Dmitri Schitikow began his career as a hockey player in the youth of HK CSKA Moscow , for whose second team he was active in the third-rate Pervaya League from 2001 to 2004 . Then the attacker played in the 2004/05 season for HK Dinamo Minsk in the Belarusian extra league and Amur Khabarovsk in the second Russian division, the Wysschaja Liga . The left-handed shooter was then signed by HK Dynamo Moscow from the Russian Super League , with whom he won the IIHF European Champions Cup in 2006 after a final victory over Kärpät Oulu from the Finnish SM-liiga . In addition, the left-handed shooter won the Spengler Cup in 2008 with Dynamo, for which he was on the ice from the 2008/09 season in the newly founded Continental Hockey League .

Dmitri Schitikow (right) and Stepan Sannikow (2011)

In 2010 he moved to SKA Saint Petersburg and was there in 29 KHL games. Towards the end of the main round he was sent to the farm team, the HK WMF Saint Petersburg , in the Wysschaja Hockey League , where he also played the playoffs. At the end of June 2011, Shitikov was signed by Atlant Mytishchi , but handed over to Severstal Tscherepowez in September of the same year . In December 2011 he was transferred again within the KHL, this time to Amur Khabarovsk . He played for Amur until January 2013, before being given to HK Sibir Novosibirsk in exchange for Anton Malyshev shortly before the play-offs of the 2012/13 season . After the end of the season Schitikow was exchanged for Nikita Dwuretschenski from HK Vitjas. Schitikow played at HK Vitjas until the end of the 2016/17 season.

International

For Russia , Zhitikov took part in the U18 Junior World Championships in 2003 and 2004 .

Achievements and Awards

• 2003 bronze medal at the U18 Junior World Championship
• 2004 gold medal at the U18 Junior World Championship
• 2006 IIHF European Champions Cup - win with HK Dynamo Moscow
• 2008 Spengler Cup win with HK Dynamo Moscow
• 2010 Spengler Cup win with the SKA Saint Petersburg

KHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Main round	3	129	17th	14th	31	30th
Playoffs	2	14th	1	1	2	2

(Status: end of the 2010/11 season)

Web links

• Dmitri Schitikow at eurohockey.com
• Dmitri Schitikow at eliteprospects.com (English)