Vadim Sergeyevich Berdnikov

Vadim Berdnikov
Date of birth	July 7, 1987
place of birth	Chelyabinsk , Russian SFSR
size	178 cm
Weight	80 kg
position	center
number	# 36
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
until 2005	HK tractor Chelyabinsk
2005-2006	Barys Astana
2006-2008	HK tractor Chelyabinsk
2008	HK Dmitrov
2008-2010	Vityaz Chekhov
2010	Atlant Mytishchi
2010-2011	Vityaz Chekhov
2011–2012	HK Spartak Moscow
2012-2016	Severstal Cherepovets
2016-2017	HK Spartak Moscow
since 2017	HK Arlan Kökschetau

Vadim Sergejewitsch Berdnikow ( Russian Вадим Сергеевич Бердников ; born July 7, 1987 in Chelyabinsk , Russian SFSR ) is a Russian ice hockey player who has been under contract with HK Arlan Kökschetau since 2017 .

Career

Vadim Berdnikow began his career as an ice hockey player in his hometown in the youth department of the HK tractor Chelyabinsk , for whose second team he was active from 2003 in the third-rate Pervaya League . The 2005/06 season , however, ended the center at Barys Astana , for which he ran parallel in the Pervaya League and the Kazakh championship . From 2006 to 2008, the left shooter ran again for the HK tractor Chelyabinsk, for whose professional team he scored four goals in 62 games in the super league during this period and made eight assists. On the side, however, he continued to work for the second team of the HK tractor in the Pervaya League. The 2007/08 season of the Russian then ended at HK Dmitrov in the Wysschaja Liga , the second Russian division.

Wadim Berdnikow (left) and Daniil Markow (2011)

For the 2008/09 season Berdnikow moved to Vitjas Chekhov , for which he went on goal hunting in the following year and a half in the newly founded Continental Hockey League . In January 2010 he was committed by Vitjas' league rivals Atlant Mytishchi , for whom he scored two goals in eight games by the end of the season. For the 2010/11 season he returned to Vitjas Chekhov and scored for this twelve goals in 53 games and made 16 templates. In November 2011, the Russian moved to HK Spartak Moscow before returning to his hometown club in May 2012. For tractor, however, he did not complete a single game, but left the club in August of the same year by mutual agreement and was signed by Severstal Tscherepowez . As a result, he completed over 230 KHL games for Sewerstal and scored over 70 points scorer.

After the 2015/16 season he did not receive a new contract with Severstal and therefore moved back to HK Spartak Moscow together with Anatoly Nikolajewitsch Nikonzew , where he received a one-year contract.

Achievements and Awards

• 2019 winning the IIHF Continental Cup with HK Arlan Kökschetau

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
KHL main round	3	155	30th	61	91	173
KHL playoffs	1	1	0	0	0	0
Super League main round	2	62	4th	8th	12	34
Super League Playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-

(Status: end of the 2010/11 season)

Web links

• Vadim Berdnikow at boeboda.ru
• Wadim Berdnikow at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Бердников перешел в «Северсталь». In: news.sportbox.ru. August 25, 2012, Retrieved November 15, 2018 (Russian).