Sergei Sergeyevich Plotnikov

Russia Sergei Plotnikov


Date of birth	3rd June 1990
place of birth	Komsomolsk-on-Amur
size	185 cm
Weight	85 kg

position	wing
Shot hand	Left

Career stations

until 2008	Amur Khabarovsk
2008-2009	Yermak Angarsk
2009–2012	Amur Khabarovsk
2012-2015	Yaroslavl locomotive
2015-2016	Pittsburgh Penguins
2016	Arizona Coyotes
2016-2020	SKA Saint Petersburg
since 2020	HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk

Sergei Plotnikov ( Russian Сергей Сергеевич Плотников ; English transcription: Sergei Sergeyevich Plotnikov ; * 3. June 1990 in Komsomolsk-on-Amur ) is a Russian ice hockey player who since May 2020 when Metallurg Magnitogorsk in the Continental Hockey League (KHL) under contract stands and plays there in the position of the winger .

Career

Sergei Plotnikow (2012)

Sergei Plotnikow began his career as a hockey player in the youth department of Amur Khabarovsk , for whose second team he was active in the third-rate Pervaya League from 2005 to 2008 . Subsequently, the attacker made his professional ice hockey debut in the 2008/09 season, when he was used for Amur's farm team Yermak Angarsk in the Vysschaya League , the second Russian division. For the 2009/10 season he returned to Khabarovsk and scored six goals in 43 games in his rookie year in the Continental Hockey League and prepared another six hits.

Plotnikow played another two years for Amur in the KHL and scored another 18 goals and 15 assists before moving to Lokomotive Yaroslavl in May 2012 within the KHL . After three years in Yaroslavl, he signed an entry-level contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins in July 2015 .

In the penguins, Plotnikow could not prevail and was given to the Arizona Coyotes in February 2016 . In return, Matthias Plachta and a success-based seven-round voting right for the NHL Entry Draft 2017 moved to Pittsburgh. Plotnikov ended the season in Arizona and returned to his Russian homeland after just one year in North America, where he signed a two-year contract with SKA Saint Petersburg , which was extended for a further four years in 2018. Only two years later, however, the striker became part of a transfer deal twice in May 2020, so that he ended up at HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk via Amur Khabarovsk .

Achievements and Awards

2017 Gagarin Cup win and Russian champion with SKA Saint Petersburg

International

2014 gold medal at the world championship
2015 silver medal at the world championship
2016 bronze medal at the world championship

2017 bronze medal at the world championship
2019 bronze medal at the world championship

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

			Regular season					Playoffs
season	team	league	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2005/06	Amur Khabarovsk II	Pervaya League	47	7th	5	12	92	-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Amur Khabarovsk II	Pervaya League	39	12	5	17th	40	-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Amur Khabarovsk II	Pervaya League	49	24	13	37	100	-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Yermak Angarsk	Vysschaya League	26th	2	3	5	36	-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Amur Khabarovsk	KHL	43	6th	6th	12	30th	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Amur Khabarovsk	KHL	45	5	8th	13	36	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Amurskye Tigry	MHL	16	12	22nd	34	32	8th	1	5	6th	47
2011/12	Amur Khabarovsk	KHL	53	13	7th	20th	70	4th	0	0	0	8th
2012/13	Yaroslavl locomotive	KHL	50	14th	16	30th	54	5	1	2	3	4th
2013/14	Yaroslavl locomotive	KHL	53	15th	20th	35	88	18th	4th	10	14th	30th
2014/15	Yaroslavl locomotive	KHL	56	15th	21st	36	71	5	1	0	1	3
2015/16	Pittsburgh Penguins	NHL	32	0	2	2	20th	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Arizona Coyotes	NHL	13	0	1	1	4th	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	SKA Saint Petersburg	KHL	46	11	18th	29	53	15th	3	3	6th	14th
2017/18	SKA Saint Petersburg	KHL	55	16	23	39	60	12	1	2	3	37
2018/19	SKA Saint Petersburg	KHL	61	19th	20th	39	40	18th	3	11	14th	23
2019/20	SKA Saint Petersburg	KHL	48	8th	21st	29	81	4th	2	0	2	4th
Total Pervaya League			135	43	23	66	232	-	-	-	-	-
KHL total			510	122	160	282	583	81	15th	28	43	153
NHL overall			45	0	3	3	24	-	-	-	-	-

International

Represented Russia in:

year	team	event	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2014	Russia	WM	10	6th	6th	12	12
2015	Russia	WM	10	1	1	2	2
2016	Russia	WM	7th	0	1	1	4th
2017	Russia	WM	10	3	4th	7th	10
2019	Russia	WM	3	0	1	1	0
Men overall			40	10	13	23	28

( 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

Commons : Sergei Plotnikow - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Sergei Plotnikow at eurohockey.com
Sergei Plotnikow at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

↑ СКА подписал контракт с Сергеем Плотниковым. www.ska.ru, July 1, 2016, accessed July 1, 2016 (Russian).

Squad of HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk in the 2020/21 season

personal data
SURNAME	Plotnikow, Sergei Sergejewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Plotnikov, Sergei (English spelling); Плотников, Сергей Сергеевич (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH	3rd June 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH	Komsomolsk-on-Amur , Russian SFSR

[1] СКА подписал контракт с Сергеем Плотниковым. www.ska.ru, July 1, 2016, accessed July 1, 2016 (Russian).