Nikita Alexandrovich Shchitov

Nikita Shchitov
Date of birth	March 12, 1983
place of birth	Ufa , Russian SFSR
size	185 cm
Weight	85 kg
position	defender
number	# 42
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
2003	Toros Neftekamsk
2003-2005	Metallurgist Serov
2005	Kedr Novouralsk
2005-2006	Salawat Yulayev Ufa
2006-2007	Toros Neftekamsk
2007-2008	Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk
2008-2010	HK Spartak Moscow
2010–2012	Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk
2012-2013	HK Spartak Moscow
2013	Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk
2013-2014	Salawat Yulayev Ufa
2014-2015	HK Sochi
2015-2016	Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk
2016-2017	Awtomobilist Ekaterinburg
2017-2020	HK Sochi

Nikita Alexandrowitsch Schchitow ( Russian: Никита Александрович Щитов ; born March 12, 1983 in Ufa , Russian SFSR ) is a former Russian ice hockey player .

Career

Nikita Shchitov began his career as a hockey player at Toros Neftekamsk , for which he was active in the third-rate Pervaya League at the beginning of the 2003/04 season . After only six missions, he moved to Metallurg Serow , for whose professional team he was active in the Wysschaja Liga , the second Russian division, until 2005 . At the same time, he continued to play in the Pervaya League for his second team during this period. The 2005/06 season began the attacker at third division Kedr Nowouralsk , but spent the following year and a half at Salawat Yulayev Ufa in the super league . In the 2006/07 season, the Russian played mostly for his ex-club Toros Neftekamsk, who had meanwhile been promoted to the second-rate Vysschaja Liga.

In the 2007/08 season , Shchitov stood for Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk in the super league on the ice and he managed to establish himself as a regular player for the first time in the top Russian league. For the following season , the Russian moved to HK Spartak Moscow from the newly founded Continental Hockey League . He left the capital club in November 2010 to return to Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk. In the following two years he completed over 70 KHL games for Neftechimik and was also assistant captain of his team during the 2011/12 season.

In May 2012 he returned to Spartak Moscow, where he signed a two-year contract. A year later he moved back to Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk in exchange for a compensation sum. In November 2013 it was given to Salawat Julajew Ufa as part of a ring exchange in which Igor Mussatow and Maxim Trunjow were also involved. By the end of the season, Shchitov had completed 36 KHL games for Salawat, in which he collected five scorer points as a defensive defender.

In May 2014 he was signed by the newly founded KHL participant HK Sochi and acted there as team captain in the 2014/15 season. In October he returned to Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk in exchange for a right to vote for the KHL Junior Draft 2016 . There he acted as team captain at the beginning of the 2016/17 season before moving to Awtomobilist Yekaterinburg in December 2016 .

From May 2017 to June 2020 he played again at HK Sochi.

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
KHL main round	11	518	42	109	151	383
KHL playoffs	8th	43	3	1	4th	26th
Super League main round	3	71	0	7th	7th	62
Super League Playoffs	2	11	1	2	3	6th

(Status: end of the 2018/19 season)

Web links

• Nikita Schtschitow at hockeydb.com (English)
• Nikita Schtschitow at eliteprospects.com (English)