Stepan Romanowitsch Sannikow

Stepan Sannikov
Date of birth	September 25, 1990
place of birth	Solikamsk , Russian SFSR
size	182 cm
Weight	77 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
until 2018	HK Sibir Novosibirsk
2018-2019	Yaroslavl locomotive
2019-2020	Ak Bars Kazan
since 2020	HK Sibir Novosibirsk

Stepan Romanovich Sannikov ( Russian Степан Романович Санников ; English transcription: Stepan Romanovich Sannikov * 25. September 1990 in Solikamsk , Russian SFSR ) is a Russian ice hockey player who since July 2020 again at the HC Sibir Novosibirsk of the Continental Hockey League (KHL) is under contract and plays there in the position of the left winger .

Career

Stepan Sannikow began his career as a hockey player in the youth department of the HK Sibir Novosibirsk , for whose professional team he made his debut in the Continental Hockey League in the 2008/09 season . In his only season assignment, he remained pointless and punished. After he was used more often in the KHL team of HK Sibir in the following season , he has been a regular since the 2010/11 season. At the same time as the game with the KHL team of HK Sibir Novosibirsk, the attacker ran from 2009 to 2011 for the club's junior team in the multinational junior league Molodjoschnaja Chokkeinaja Liga as well as in the playoffs of the 2010/11 season for Sibir's farm team Sauralje Kurgan in the Wysschaja Hockey- Liga , the second Russian division.

In the following years Sannikow developed into a top performer at Sibir and in the 2016/17 season he was assistant captain , and in the 2017/18 season he was even the team captain of the Novosibirsk team. In May 2018 he decided to change clubs and signed a contract with Lokomotive Yaroslavl . The winger played there until December 2019 before he was transferred to Ak Bars Kazan , where he ended the 2019/20 season. In July 2020 he returned to Sibir Novosibirsk.

Achievements and Awards

• 2016 bronze medal at the world championship

KHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Main round	12	541	63	95	158	267
Playoffs	7th	61	10	13	23	40

(Status: end of the 2019/20 season)

Web links

• Stepan Sannikow at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Stepan Sannikow at hockeydb.com (English)