Nikita Dmitrijewitsch Soshnikov

Nikita Soshnikov
Date of birth	October 14, 1993
place of birth	Nizhny Tagil , Russia
size	181 cm
Weight	86 kg
position	Right wing
number	# 86
Shot hand	Left
Draft
KHL Junior Draft	2010 , 6th round, 123rd position Atlant Moskovskaya Oblast
Career stations
until 2010	Sputnik Nizhny Tagil
2010-2015	Atlant Moskovskaya Oblast
2015-2018	Toronto Maple Leafs Toronto Marlies
2018-2019	St. Louis Blues
since 2019	Salawat Yulayev Ufa

Nikita Dmitriyevich Soshnikov ( Russian: Никита Дмитриевич Сошников ; English transcription: Nikita Dmitriyevich Soshnikov ; born October 14, 1993 in Nizhny Tagil ) is a Russian ice hockey player who has been under contract with Salawat Yulayev and Ufa hockey in the continental league since June 2019 the position of the defender plays.

Career

Nikita Soschnikow was born in Nizhny Tagil and played there in his youth for the junior departments of Sputnik Nizhny Tagil until he was selected in the KHL Junior Draft 2010 by Atlant Moskovskaya Oblast in 123rd position. From then on, the right winger played for their junior team in the Molodjoschnaja Chokkeinaja Liga (MHL), the highest Russian junior division. In three MHL years, Soshnikov increased his personal statistics significantly, until he got a point average of well over 1.0 in the 2012/13 season (72 in 59 games). As a result, the Russian made his professional debut the following year, where he was mainly used in the Continental Hockey League for Atlant Moskovskaya Oblast; there were also four games at HK Buran Voronezh in the second-rate Wysschaja Hockey League . By the beginning of the 2014/15 season at the latest, the attacker had established himself in Atlant's KHL line-up and scored 32 points in 57 games during the season . He also made his debut with the Russian national team as part of the Euro Hockey Tour 2014/15 . His club Atlant Moskowskaja Oblast stopped playing after the 2014/15 season due to ongoing financial problems, with the majority of the players being taken over by HK Spartak Moscow . Soshnikov decided against this option and instead signed an entry-level contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs from the National Hockey League (NHL).

As expected , the Maple Leafs initially used Soshnikov with their farm team , the Toronto Marlies , in the American Hockey League (AHL). There he scored 18 goals in 52 games and provided ten templates, so that he was called back to the NHL squad at the end of February 2016 and made his debut for the Maple Leafs a little later. By the end of the season, the attacker was in eleven games in the NHL on the ice before he was sent back to the AHL for the playoffs for the Calder Cup , where he reached the conference finals with the Marlies. With the beginning of the 2016/17 season, Soshnikov established himself in the Maple Leafs squad and was henceforth regularly used in the NHL. However, this changed with the following season, so that the attacker was given to the St. Louis Blues in February 2018 in exchange for a four-round vote in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft . After 17 appearances for the Blues and eleven more for their cooperation partner San Antonio Rampage in the AHL, the Russian ended his engagement in North America after the 2018/19 season. In June 2019 he signed a contract with Salawat Julajew Ufa from the KHL.

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

				Regular season							Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2010/11	Mytishchiskye Atlanty	MHL		48	17th	10	27	+8	14th		6th	0	1	1	-1	6th
2011/12	Mytishchiskye Atlanty	MHL		47	14th	20th	34	+7	12		11	1	4th	5	+3	25th
2012/13	Mytishchiskye Atlanty	MHL		59	38	34	72	+44	47		8th	5	4th	9	+6	4th
2013/14	Mytishchiskye Atlanty	MHL		10	5	8th	13	+10	4th		2	2	0	2	-1	0
2013/14	HK Buran Voronezh	VHL		4th	2	2	4th	+1	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Atlant Moskovskaya Oblast	KHL		33	2	3	5	-4	27		-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Atlant Moskovskaya Oblast	KHL		57	14th	18th	32	+5	22nd		-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Toronto Marlies	AHL		52	18th	10	28	+26	18th		11	5	2	7th	+5	4th
2015/16	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		11	2	3	5	-4	6th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Toronto Marlies	AHL		6th	1	2	3	+1	6th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		56	5	4th	9	+1	16		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Toronto Marlies	AHL		19th	7th	10	17th	+13	12		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		3	0	0	0	-2	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	St. Louis Blues	NHL		12	1	1	2	± 0	4th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	San Antonio Rampage	AHL		11	3	3	6th	+1	4th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	St. Louis Blues	AHL		5	0	0	0	−1	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
MHL total				164	74	72	146	+69	77		27	8th	9	17th	+7	35
KHL total				90	16	21st	37	+1	49		-	-	-	-	-	-
AHL total				88	29	25th	54	+41	40		11	5	2	7th	+5	4th
NHL overall				87	8th	8th	16	–6	26th		-	-	-	-	-	-

International

Represented Russia in:

• World Championship 2018

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2018	Russia	WM	6th place		4th	0	3	3	0
Men overall					4th	0	3	3	0

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; ¹  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

• Nikita Soschnikow in the database of the National Hockey League (English)
• Nikita Soschnikow at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Nikita Soschnikow at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Maple Leafs sign Nikita Soshnikov to three-year contract. nhl.com, March 20, 2015, accessed February 4, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Chris Pinkert: Blues acquire Soshnikov from Maple Leafs. nhl.com, February 15, 2018, accessed on February 16, 2018 .