Nikita Sergeyevich Shcherbak

Nikita Shcherbak
Date of birth	December 30, 1995
place of birth	Moscow , Russia
size	185 cm
Weight	79 kg
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2014 , 1st round, 26th position Canadiens de Montréal
Career stations
2012-2013	Captain Stupino
2013-2014	Saskatoon Blades
2014-2015	Everett Silvertips
2015-2017	St. John's IceCaps
2017-2018	Canadiens de Montréal Rocket de Laval
2018-2019	Los Angeles Kings Ontario Reign
2019	HK Awangard Omsk
since 2019	HK tractor Chelyabinsk

Nikita Sergeyevich Scherbak ( Russian: Никита Сергеевич Щербак ; English transcription: Nikita Sergeyevich Scherbak ; born December 30, 1995 in Moscow ) is a Russian ice hockey player who has been under contract with HK Traktor Chelyabinsk from the Continental Hockey League since November 2019 and there on the position of right winger plays.

Career

Shcherbak began his career with Kapitan Stupino . In 2013 the striker moved to North America. There he played from 2013 to 2015 for the Saskatoon Blades and the Everett Silvertips in the Western Hockey League . In the NHL Entry Draft 2014 , the Canadiens de Montréal selected him in the first round in 26th position.

The Canadiens signed Shcherbak in July 2014 and will be using the forward from 2015 on their farm team , the St. John's IceCaps , in the American Hockey League . On January 7, 2017, Shcherbak made his debut in the National Hockey League (NHL) in the original six derby against the Toronto Maple Leafs and scored his first NHL goal.

In December 2018, the attacker should be sent again to the AHL, but he had to go through the waiver and was committed by the Los Angeles Kings . There he spent most of the rest of the season on the Ontario Reign farm team . In June 2019 he returned to his home country from the Continental Hockey League after signing a contract with HK Awangard Omsk . In November of the same year he switched to HK Tractor Chelyabinsk within the KHL .

Achievements and Awards

• 2014 Participation in the CHL Top Prospects Game

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
2012/13	Captain Stupino	MHL		50	7th	7th	-14	-8th	14th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Saskatoon Blades	WHL		65	28	50	78	–6	46		-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Everett Silvertips	WHL		65	27	55	82	+33	60		11	3	5	8th	+5	10
2015/16	St. John's IceCaps	AHL		48	7th	16	23	-26	20th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	St. John's IceCaps	AHL		66	13	28	41	-2	32		4th	1	1	2	± 0	4th
2016/17	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		3	1	0	1	+1	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Rocket de Laval	AHL		26th	7th	23	30th	-2	20th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		26th	4th	2	6th	-5	8th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Rocket de Laval	AHL		5	1	0	1	± 0	2		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Ontario Reign	AHL		23	4th	7th	11	-10	18th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Los Angeles Kings	NHL		8th	1	0	1	-4	2		-	-	-	-	-	-
WHL overall				130	55	105	160	+27	106		11	3	5	8th	+5	10
AHL total				168	32	74	106	-40	92		4th	1	1	2	± 0	4th
NHL overall				37	6th	2	8th	-8th	10		-	-	-	-	-	-

( 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 Shtscherbak in the database of the National Hockey League (English)
• Nikita Schtscherbak at eliteprospects.com (English)