Nikita Filatov
Nikita Filatov Vasilyevich (Russian: Никита Васильевич Филатов; born 25 May 1990 in Moscow, Russian SFSR ) is a Russian ice hockey player in the position of left winger who stands since May 2012 for Salavat Yulaev Ufa in the Kontinental Hockey League contract.
- 3.1 International
Career
Filatov went through during his junior time the youth department of the HK CSKA Moscow. In the season 2005/ 06 he received at the age of 15 years for the first time operating times in the second seniors team, which was located in the third highest Russian league. At the end of the 2006 / 07 season, he was part of the squad of Russian U18 national team that won the gold medal at the U18 World Youth Championship in 2007. Filatov was with nine points in seven games the top scoring player of his team and had thus contributed significantly to the tournament victory of the Russians. In the 2007 /08 season he was at the age of 17 years, made his debut in the Super League, when he was called into the squad for the first team of CSKA and five games played. Mainly he ran further but for the second team in the third highest Russian league, where he failed to impress in 34 games with 66 points. At the end of 2007 he was invited to the squad for the U20 Junior World Championship 2008, where he won the bronze medal. Another six months later, he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 2008 in the first round at the sixth position of the Columbus Blue Jackets. In addition, the Sudbury Wolves, the rights guaranteed in the Canadian Junior Hockey in the Ontario Hockey League CHL Import Draft on the him.
Before the start of season 2008/ 09 he finally signed a three year contract with the Blue Jackets, as he had expressed great interest in advance, as soon as possible to move to North America. However, the International Ice Hockey Federation IIHF the Continental Hockey League asked subsequently ensuring that the contractual status Filatows should be checked, since both the KHL and his former club CSKA Moscow they assumed that he was not regarded as so-called Unrestricted Free Agent and thus the part of the NHL transfer compensation was to be paid. However, his first season in North America, he did not start in the NHL, but in the American Hockey League with the Syracuse Crunch, the farm team of Columbus. After he had met in his first two games for Syracuse twice already, he was appointed because of human failures in the NHL squad the Blue Jackets and also met there on his debut. But subsequently he came back propagated in the AHL used, which ultimately led to that set him free, the Blue Jackets of the year for the U20 World Youth Championship 2009. There he won the bronze medal as last year and had eleven points best scorer of his team. For his good performances in the World Cup, the attacker in the sequence with the re- appointment to the NHL squad and the choice was rewarded in the starting grid for the AHL All- Star Classic and scored on his second outing for the Blue Jackets in 2009, the first hat-trick in his NHL career.
On June 25, 2011 it gave the Blue Jackets off in exchange for a third-round vote in the NHL Entry Draft in 2011 to the Ottawa Senators. Subsequently, he completed nine NHL inserts for the Senators and 15 AHL games for the Binghamton Senators before he was mid-December loaned to CSKA Moscow in 2011.
Since May 2012, he is with Salavat Yulaev Ufa under contract.
Awards and achievements
- 2009 AHL All- Star Classic
- 2009 KHL - Rookie of the Month for November
Internationally
- 2007 Gold medal at the U18 World Youth Championship
- 2008 bronze medal at the U20 World Junior Championships
- 2008 Silver medal at the U18 World Youth Championship
- 2008 All- Star team the U18 World Youth Championship
- 2009 bronze medal at the U20 World Junior Championships
- 2009 All- Star team the U20 World Youth Championship
Career Stats
Internationally
Represented Russia at:
- U18 World Junior Championships 2007
- U20 Junior World Championship 2008
- U18 Junior World Championship 2008
- U20 World Junior Championships 2009
- U20 Junior World Cup 2010
( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )