Nikita Alexandrovich Nikitin

Nikita Nikitin
Date of birth	June 16, 1986
place of birth	Omsk , Russian SFSR
size	193 cm
Weight	89 kg
position	defender
number	# 86
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2004 , 5th round, 136th position St. Louis Blues
Career stations
2003-2010	HK Awangard Omsk
2010-2011	St. Louis Blues
2011-2014	Columbus Blue Jackets
2014-2016	Edmonton Oilers
2016-2017	HK Awangard Omsk
2017-2019	HK tractor Chelyabinsk

Nikita Alexandrowitsch Nikitin ( Russian: Никита Александрович Никитин ; born June 16, 1986 in Omsk , Russian SFSR ) is a Russian ice hockey player who was most recently under contract with HK Traktor Chelyabinsk in the Continental Hockey League .

Career

Nikita Nikitin began his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the youth of HK Awangard Omsk , for whose professional team he made his debut in the Russian Super League in the 2003/04 season , where he was only used in one game this season. As in the previous year, he spent the rest of the season with their second team in the third-rate Perwaja League . In addition, the Russian was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2004 in the fifth round as a total of 136th player by the St. Louis Blues . At European level, the defender won the IIHF European Champions Cup with Awangard in 2005 . In the final, the left shooter and his team prevailed against Kärpät Oulu from the Finnish SM-liiga .

In the 2005/06 season Nikitin was runner-up with Omsk after losing to Ak Bars Kazan in the finals . From the 2008/09 season Nikitin stood for Awangard in the newly formed Continental Hockey League on the ice. In June 2010 he signed a contract with the St. Louis Blues. After Nikitin had started the 2010/11 season in the NHL squad of the Blues and was used in 13 NHL games, he was then sent to the farm team to the Peoria Rivermen .

In November 2011 Nikitin was swapped for Kris Russell from the Columbus Blue Jackets . Due to the NHL lockout, he played from 2012 to 2013 for HK Awangard Omsk in the Continental Hockey League . After three years in Columbus, Nikitin joined the Edmonton Oilers in June 2014 . In Edmonton, the Russian played 42 games in the 2014/15 season, but did not make it into the NHL squad in preparation for the 2015/16 season and was therefore initially given to the Bakersfield Condors . After playing for both the Condors and Oilers games over the course of the season, he returned to his hometown of Omsk in September 2016. There he rejoined the HK Awangard Omsk.

Between 2017 and 2019 he was active for the HK tractor Chelyabinsk .

International

For Russia , Nikitin took part in the U20 World Junior Championship in 2006 , in which he finished second with his team.

Achievements and Awards

• 2005 IIHF European Champions Cup win with HK Awangard Omsk
• 2006 Russian runner-up with the HK Awangard Omsk

International

• 2006 silver medal at the U20 World Junior Championship
• 2012 gold medal at the world championship

statistics

Status: end of the 2015/16 season

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
NHL: Regular season	6th	259	17th	59	76	85
NHL: playoffs	1	5	0	0	0	0
KHL: main round	3	129	10	33	43	50
KHL: playoffs	2	12	1	2	3	8th

Web links

Commons : Nikita Nikitin  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Nikita Nikitin at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ St. Louis Blues: Blues Sign Defenseman Nikita Nikitin