Andrei Nikitenko

Andrei Vladimirovich Nikitenko (Russian: Андрей Владимирович Никитенко; born January 13, 1979 in Tyumen, Russian SFSR ) is a Russian ice hockey player standing since June 2013 at the Admiral Vladivostok in the Kontinental Hockey League contract.

Career

Andrei Nikitenko began his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the junior department of Gasowik Tyumen, for the first team, he made his debut in the Super League in the 1997/98 season. In the following season the center rose with his team in the Wysschaja League, the second Russian league, from. He himself remained in the Super League and played in the next three years for Ak Bars Kazan, with whom he was runner-up respectively in 2000 and 2002. In his first year in Kazan, he also came two appearances for the second division Neftjanik Leninogorsk.

From 2002 to 2004 Nikitenko stood at Cherepovets Severstal under contract by which he failed to Lokomotiv Yaroslavl in the season 2002/ 03 as last year with Kazan in the playoff finals. The 2004/05 season he began at last year's runner- HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk, but left that after just twelve games again and ran into the following two and a half seasons with the capital club HK CSKA Moscow. In the 2007 /08 season played the Junior World Champion for the HK Sibir Novosibirsk. He subsequently received a contract with Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod of the newly formed Kontinental Hockey League, for which he stood until 2012 on the ice. In May 2012, he received from Sibir Novosibirsk a two year contract.

During the Expansion Draft on June 17, 2013 Nikitenko was selected by Admiral Vladivostok.

Internationally

For Russia Nikitenko took part in the U20 World Youth Championship in 1999, in which he became world champion with his team. For this success he contributed five assists in seven games.

Awards and achievements

KHL stats

(End of season 2010/11)