Nikita Nikitin
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Nikita Nikitin | |||
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Born | Omsk, Soviet Union |
16 June 1986 ||
Height | 6 ft 4 in (193 cm) | ||
Weight | 217 lb (98 kg; 15 st 7 lb) | ||
Position | Defence | ||
Shoots | Left | ||
AHL team Former teams |
Bakersfield Condors Edmonton Oilers Avangard Omsk St. Louis Blues Columbus Blue Jackets |
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National team | Russia | ||
NHL Draft | 136th overall, 2004 St. Louis Blues |
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Playing career | 2002–present |
Nikita Aleksandrovich Nikitin (Russian: Никита Александрович Никитин; born 16 June 1986) is a Russian professional ice hockey defenseman currently playing for the Bakersfield Condors of the American Hockey League (AHL).
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Playing career
Nikitin spent his junior career skating in the Avangard Omsk hockey system. He was a regular on Russia’s under-18 and under-20 national squads and spent several seasons skating in the professional Russian Superleague (RSL) with Avangard, establishing himself as a strong Superleague-calibre defenceman.
Nikitin was drafted by the St. Louis Blues with the 136th overall selection in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft.[1] On 14 June 2010, he was signed by the Blues to an entry-level NHL contract.[2] He scored his first NHL goal on 6 February 2011 against Dan Ellis of the Tampa Bay Lightning. He was traded on 10 November 2011, to the Columbus Blue Jackets for defenceman Kris Russell.[3]
After Columbus agreed to give the Edmonton Oilers permission to negotiate with Nikitin on 20 June 2014, Nikitin and Edmonton agreed to a two-year deal worth an annual average value of $4.5 million, and his rights were traded to Edmonton on 25 June, where he immediately signed the new contract.[4]
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
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Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||
2003–04 | Avangard Omsk | RSL | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
2004–05 | Avangard Omsk | RSL | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
2005–06 | Avangard Omsk | RSL | 41 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 24 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | ||
2006–07 | Avangard Omsk | RSL | 54 | 1 | 15 | 16 | 101 | 11 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 39 | ||
2007–08 | Avangard Omsk | RSL | 57 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 48 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
2008–09 | Avangard Omsk | KHL | 53 | 4 | 11 | 15 | 28 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | ||
2009–10 | Avangard Omsk | KHL | 43 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
2010–11 | St. Louis Blues | NHL | 41 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
2010–11 | Peoria Rivermen | AHL | 22 | 3 | 11 | 14 | 12 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
2011–12 | St. Louis Blues | NHL | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
2011–12 | Columbus Blue Jackets | NHL | 54 | 7 | 25 | 32 | 14 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
2012–13 | Avangard Omsk | KHL | 33 | 2 | 12 | 14 | 8 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
2012–13 | Columbus Blue Jackets | NHL | 38 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 17 | — | — | — | — | |||
2013–14 | Columbus Blue Jackets | NHL | 66 | 2 | 13 | 15 | 20 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
2014–15 | Edmonton Oilers | NHL | 42 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 12 | — | — | — | — | |||
NHL totals | 248 | 17 | 58 | 75 | 77 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
KHL totals | 129 | 10 | 32 | 42 | 50 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
International
Year | Team | Event | Result | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | |
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2006 | Russia | WJC | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | ||
2012 | Russia | WC | 10 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 4 | ||
Junior totals | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | ||||
Senior totals | 10 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
References
External links
- Use dmy dates from July 2015
- Pages with broken file links
- 1986 births
- Living people
- Avangard Omsk players
- Bakersfield Condors (AHL) players
- Columbus Blue Jackets players
- Edmonton Oilers players
- Ice hockey players at the 2014 Winter Olympics
- Olympic ice hockey players of Russia
- Peoria Rivermen (AHL) players
- Russian ice hockey defencemen
- St. Louis Blues draft picks
- St. Louis Blues players
- Sportspeople from Omsk