Ilya Olegowitsch Krikunow

Ilya Krikunov
Date of birth	February 27, 1984
place of birth	Elektrostal , Russian SFSR
size	180 cm
Weight	79 kg
position	Right wing
number	# 17
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2002 , 7th lap, 223rd position Vancouver Canucks
Career stations
until 2003	Elemasch Elektrostal
2003-2005	Chimik Voskressensk
2005-2008	Chimik Moskovskaya Oblast
2008-2013	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
2013	Atlant Mytishchi
2013-2014	Awtomobilist Ekaterinburg
2014	Amur Khabarovsk
2014-2017	HK Sochi
2017-2019	Awtomobilist Ekaterinburg
since 2019	HK Sochi

Ilja Olegowitsch Krikunow ( Russian Илья Олегович Крикунов ; born February 27, 1984 in Elektrostal , Russian SFSR ) is a Russian ice hockey player who has been under contract with HK Sochi in the Continental Hockey League again since May 2019 .

Career

Ilya Krikunow began his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the youth department of Elemasch Elektrostal , for whose professional team he was active from 2001 to 2003 in the Wysschaja Liga , the second Russian division. During this period he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2002 in the seventh round as a total of 223rd player by the Vancouver Canucks , for which he never played. Instead, he played from 2003 to 2005 for Chimik Voskressensk and after his resettlement until 2008 for Chimik Moskowskaja Oblast in the super league .

Chimik Moskovskaya Oblast was included in the newly founded Continental Hockey League for the 2008/09 season and changed its name to Atlant Mytishchi on the occasion. For the club, however, Krikunow then only played five KHL games, in which he gave an assist, and then moved within the KHL to Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod . He completed over 200 KHL games for Torpedo in the following 4 seasons before returning to Atlant in January 2013 in exchange for Jonas Andersson . In May 2013 he signed a contract with Awtomobilist Yekaterinburg , which is valid until the end of the 2014/15 season. At the beginning of the 2013/14 season he was used by Awtomobilist at Sputnik Nizhny Tagil , but also completed a few KHL games for Awtomobilist. In January 2014 he moved within the KHL to Amur Khabarovsk and in May 2014 to HK Sochi . There he played until 2017, then was again under contract with Awtomobilist for two years and returned to HK Sochi in May 2019. There he was appointed team captain.

International

For Russia , Krikunow took part in the U18 World Junior Championship in 2002 and the U20 World Junior Championship in 2004 . At the U18 World Cup in 2002, he and his team won the silver medal.

Achievements and Awards

• 2002 silver medal at the U18 Junior World Championship

KHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Main round	11	497	93	161	254	212
Playoffs	6th	33	5	11	16	10

(Status: end of the 2018/19 season)

Web links

Commons : Ilja Krikunow  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Ilja Krikunow at eliteprospects.com (English)