Viktor Vladimirovich Antipin

Russia Viktor Antipin


Date of birth	December 6, 1992
place of birth	Ust-Kamenogorsk , Kazakhstan
size	177 cm
Weight	69 kg

position	defender
Shot hand	Left

Career stations

2008-2017	HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
2017-2018	Buffalo Sabers
2018-2020	HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
since 2020	SKA Saint Petersburg

Viktor Vladimirovich Antipin ( Russian Виктор Владимирович Антипин ; born December 6, 1992 in Ust-Kamenogorsk ) is a Russian ice hockey player who has been under contract with SKA Saint Petersburg in the continental hockey league since May 2020 .

Career

Wiktor Antipin began his career as a hockey player in the youth department of HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk , for whose second team he made his debut in the third-rate Pervaya League in the 2008/09 season . In the 2009/10 season , the defender made his debut for the club's junior team, Stalnye Lissy Magnitogorsk, in the newly formed multinational youth league Molodjoschnaja Chokkeinaja Liga , in which he and his team won the Kharlamov Cup straight away . He contributed to this success with two goals and nine assists in a total of 44 games. In the 2010/11 season he also made his debut for the professional team of Metallurg in the Continental Hockey League , but remained pointless and punished in his two missions while he continued to play in the MHL. In 2014 he won the KHL championship trophy , the Gagarin Cup , with Metallurg and repeated this success in the 2015/16 season.

In May 2017, Antipin signed a one-year contract with the Buffalo Sabers of the National Hockey League (NHL). After that, the defender decided to return to HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk and signed a three-year contract there in July 2018.

After two years and 126 KHL games for Metallurg, he left the club prematurely and moved within the KHL to SKA Saint Petersburg .

International

For Russia, Antipin took part in the U18 World Cup in 2010 and the U20 World Cup in 2012 and won the silver medal in the latter. With the Russian senior team , he won two bronze medals at the 2016 and 2017 world championships .

Achievements and Awards

2010 Kharlamov Cup win with Stalnyje Lissy Magnitogorsk
2012 KHL rookie of the month November
2014 KHL Defender of the Month for January
2014 Gagarin Cup winner and Russian champion with HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk

2016 Gagarin Cup winner and Russian champion with HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
2017 KHL First All-Star Team
2019 KHL All-Star Game

International

2012 silver medal at the U20 Junior World Championship
2015 silver medal at the world championship
2016 bronze medal at the world championship
2017 bronze medal at the world championship

Career statistics

Antipin in the national team jersey (2016)

Status: end of the 2017/18 season

			Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league	Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM	Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2008/09	HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk II	Pervaya League	10	1	2	3		2	-	-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Stalnye Lissy Magnitogorsk	MHL	39	2	9	11	+23	22nd	5	0	0	0	+1	2
2010/11	Stalnye Lissy Magnitogorsk	MHL	44	4th	10	14th	+28	68	17th	4th	2	6th	+1	8th
2010/11	HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk	KHL	2	0	0	0	-1	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Stalnye Lissy Magnitogorsk	MHL	40	6th	19th	25th	+25	18th	11	2	4th	6th	+5	0
2012/13	HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk	KHL	50	10	11	21st	+9	8th	7th	1	2	3	+2	0
2013/14	HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk	KHL	45	9	8th	17th	+27	16	21st	4th	5	9	+8	25th
2014/15	HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk	KHL	54	5	16	21st	+12	4th	10	2	5	7th	± 0	0
2015/16	HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk	KHL	56	6th	9	15th	+9	8th	23	3	4th	7th	+10	8th
2016/17	HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk	KHL	59	6th	18th	24	+10	8th	18th	7th	4th	11	+6	2
2017/18	Buffalo Sabers	NHL	47	0	10	10	–9	18th	-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk	KHL	55	11	16	27	−1	8th	6th	0	3	3	−2	4th
2019/20	HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk	KHL
MHL total			123	12	38	50	+76	108	33	6th	6th	12	+7	10
KHL total			321	47	78	125	+65	51	85	17th	23	40	+24	39
NHL overall			47	0	10	10	–9	18th	-	-	-	-	-	-

International

Represented Russia in:

year	team	event	result	Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2010	Russia	U18 World Cup	4th Place	7th	1	1	2	± 0	6th
2012	Russia	U20 World Cup		7th	0	2	2	+5	2
2015	Russia	WM		10	0	3	3	+7	2
2016	Russia	WM		6th	0	1	1	+6	6th
2017	Russia	WM		10	0	4th	4th	+5	0
Juniors overall				14th	1	3	4th	+5	8th
Men overall				26th	0	8th	8th	+18	8th

( 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 )

family

His father, Vladimir Antipin, was also a professional ice hockey player, but played internationally for Kazakhstan .

Web links

Commons : Wiktor Antipin - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Wiktor Antipin at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Виктор Антипин - в СКА! In: ska.ru. May 7, 2020, accessed on July 20, 2020 .

Squad of SKA Saint Petersburg in the 2020/21 season

personal data
SURNAME	Antipin, Viktor Vladimirovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Antipin, Viktor (English spelling); Антипин, Виктор Владимирович (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH	December 6, 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ust-Kamenogorsk , Kazakhstan

[ska-1] Виктор Антипин - в СКА! In: ska.ru. May 7, 2020, accessed on July 20, 2020 .