Viktor Vasilyevich Tikhonov (ice hockey player)

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Viktor Tikhonov
Date of birth May 12, 1988
place of birth Riga , Latvian SSR
size 185 cm
Weight 75 kg
position Right wing
number # 10
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2008 , 1st round, 28th position
Phoenix Coyotes
Career stations
2004-2005 HK CSKA Moscow
2005-2006 HK Dmitrov
2006-2008 Severstal Cherepovets
2008-2009 Phoenix Coyotes
2009-2010 Severstal Cherepovets
2010-2011 San Antonio Rampage
2011-2015 SKA Saint Petersburg
2015 Chicago Blackhawks
2015-2016 Arizona Coyotes
since 2016 SKA Saint Petersburg

Viktor Wassiljewitsch Tichonow ( Russian Виктор Васильевич Тихонов ; born May 12, 1988 in Riga , Latvian SSR ) is a Russian ice hockey player who has been under contract with SKA Saint Petersburg in the Continental Hockey League since July 2016 . There he plays in the position of the right winger . He is the grandson of the famous ice hockey coach Viktor Tikhonov .

Career

Tichonow learned to play ice hockey in his childhood, some of which he spent in North America due to his father's job, Vasily Tichonow . There he played between 1993 and 1995, when his father was an assistant coach for the San Jose Sharks , for a youth team in Santa Clara . Further coaching positions of his father brought him to Kansas City and Kentucky before they returned to Europe together. After another station in Sweden, he moved back to his Russian homeland, where Tichonow finally played in the junior division of HK CSKA Moscow .

His first station in the professional field was in the 2004/05 season the second team of the HK CSKA Moscow Army Club, with whom he played in the third highest Russian league. During the 2005/06 season he moved to HK Dmitrov in the Wysschaja Liga , the second highest Russian division. There he posted 14 points in 36 games. For the following season he moved to Severstal Tscherepowez in the Superliga , the top division of the country at the time. He only played four games this season for the first team, but was nominated after the first four games of the series in the course of the Super Series 2007 , as the Russians suffered many injuries and had more than disappointed in the games. In the 2007/08 season Tichonow was part of the regular team of Severstal and was appointed to the junior national team for the U20 World Junior Championship at the end of 2007 . There he won the bronze medal and was named the best striker of the tournament. In the course of the Super League season he scored twelve points in 43 games , making him one of the most improved young players in the league. In the NHL Entry Draft 2008 he was finally selected by the Phoenix Coyotes in the first round in 28th overall position, after he was already available in the drafts of 2006 and 2007 but remained unnoticed. To secure the rights to Tichonow, the Coyotes had previously given two draft picks of the second round to the Anaheim Ducks , which had held the rights of the 28th pick until then. On July 1, the Coyotes brought him to sign the contract. Thanks to convincing performances in the training camp, Tichonow was able to assert himself in the regular Phoenix squad in autumn 2008.

In the weak team of Phoenix Coyotes, the striker completed 61 games in the course of the 2008/09 season , in which he posted 18 points. Only in January did he miss ten games due to a hand injury. After the Coyotes had changed their coach in the fall of 2009, Tichonow and Kyle Turris were sent to the San Antonio Rampage , the Coyotes' farm team in the American Hockey League (AHL), before the start of the 2009/10 season . There he spent the first two months of the game year before he was loaned to his ex-club Severstal Tscherepowez from the Continental Hockey League . For the 2010/11 season he returned to North America, but played exclusively for the San Antonio Rampage in the AHL. In October 2011 he was signed by the SKA Saint Petersburg from the KHL.

After four years in Saint Petersburg, Tikhonov moved back to the National Hockey League when he signed a one-year contract with the Chicago Blackhawks in July 2015 . For the Blackhawks he played eleven games, remained without a scorer point and should be sent to the AHL in December 2015 via the waiver . In doing so, however, he was hired by the Arizona Coyotes , the franchise now trading under a slightly different name that had selected him in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft.

After a year in North America, Tikhonov returned to SKA Saint Petersburg in July 2016.

Achievements and Awards

International

  • 2014 World Cup best striker
  • 2014 World Championship All-Star Team
  • 2015 silver medal at the world championship

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2004/05 HK CSKA Moscow II Pervaya League 59 21st 28 49 24 - - - - -
2005/06 HK Dmitrov Vysschaya League 36 6th 8th 14th 10 - - - - -
2005/06 HK Dmitrov II Pervaya League 16 5 9 14th 6th - - - - -
2006/07 Severstal Cherepovets II Pervaya League 21st 14th 16 30th 20th - - - - -
Severstal Cherepovets Super league 4th 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2007/08 Severstal Cherepovets II Pervaya League
Severstal Cherepovets Super league 43 7th 5 12 43 8th 0 1 1 4th
2008/09 Phoenix Coyotes NHL 61 8th 8th 16 20th - - - - -
San Antonio Rampage AHL 4th 2 1 3 0 - - - - -
2009/10 San Antonio Rampage AHL 18th 2 6th 8th 12 - - - - -
Severstal Cherepovets KHL 25th 14th 1 15th 12 - - - - -
Almas Cherepovets MHL 1 1 0 1 0 - - - - -
2010/11 San Antonio Rampage AHL 60 10 23 33 26th - - - - -
2011/12 SKA Saint Petersburg KHL 42 17th 13 30th 18th 10 4th 2 6th 4th
2012/13 SKA Saint Petersburg KHL 39 12 15th 27 16 15th 10 8th 18th 20th
2013/14 SKA Saint Petersburg KHL 52 18th 16 34 20th 10 2 1 3 2
2014/15 SKA Saint Petersburg KHL 49 8th 16 24 29 15th 1 1 2 4th
2015/16 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 11 0 0 0 6th - - - - -
Arizona Coyotes NHL 39 3 3 6th 14th - - - - -
2016/17 SKA Saint Petersburg KHL 36 6th 4th 10 13 2 0 0 0 2
2017/18 SKA Saint Petersburg KHL 45 8th 8th 16 24 12 3 1 4th 16
2018/19 SKA Saint Petersburg KHL 38 5 7th 12 24 16 1 2 3 18th
2019/20 SKA Saint Petersburg KHL
Wysschaja League overall 36 6th 8th 14th 10 - - - - -
Super league overall 47 7th 5 12 43 8th 0 1 1 4th
KHL total 326 88 80 168 156 80 21st 15th 36 66
AHL total 82 14th 30th 44 38 - - - - -
NHL overall 111 11 11 22nd 40 - - - - -

International

year team event Sp T V Pt SM
2007 Russia Super Series 4th 0 0 0 12
2008 Russia U20 World Cup 7th 5 2 7th 6th
2014 Russia Olympia 2 0 1 1 0
2014 Russia WM 10 8th 8th 16 10
Juniors overall 11 5 2 7th 18th
Men overall 12 8th 9 17th 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

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ sharks.nhl.com, Tikhonov Carrying on Family Name
  2. ↑ coyotes.nhl.com, Coyotes sign first round draft picks Boedker and Tikhonov to contracts
Logo of the SKA Saint Petersburg
Squad of SKA Saint Petersburg in the 2020/21 season
personal data
SURNAME Tikhonov, Viktor Wassiljewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tikhonov, Viktor; Tikhonov, Viktor; Тихонов, Виктор Васильевич
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga , Latvian SSR