Andrei Vasilievich Nikolishin (born , ) is a Soviet and Russian hockey player. World Champion 1993 and the bronze medalist of the 2002 Olympic Games as part of the Russian team. After completing a gaming career, he works as a coach . Honored Master of Sports of Russia (1993).
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| Position | center forward | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Growth | 183 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 95 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citizenship |  USSR →  Russia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| NHL draft | In 1992 , he was selected in the 2nd round under the general 47th number by the Hartford Whalers club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Biography
Andrei Nikolishin’s father was repressed in Stalin’s times and exiled from Ukraine to Vorkuta , where he worked at the mine and from where he had no right to leave for 25 years. Father did not tell Andrei about this, so as not to harm his future sports career. After the First World War, the brother of Andrei’s grandfather emigrated to Canada, where Andrei has a number of relatives.
Andrei started as a volleyball player, later became interested in hockey, which in the end he chose as a profession. The first coach is Viktor Vasilyevich Bogatyrev.
Speaking for the Vorkuta team in the final Golden Puck tournament in Penza, he became the top scorer and was recognized as the best striker. The famous Alexander Maltsev , who was at that tournament, invited him to the Dynamo Moscow .
From 1990 to 1995 he played in Dynamo: 115 games - 42 points (21 + 21). Champion of Russia in 1993. In the 1993/1994 season , despite his youth, he was appointed team captain. As a result of this season, he won the Golden Stick prize, awarded to the best hockey player in Russia.
As part of the youth team of the CIS, he became the world champion among youth in 1992.
World Champion 1993 (8 matches, 1 + 3). The author of the winning puck in the finals against Sweden. In 1997, he arrived at the World Cup without an existing contract with the NHL club and in the first match received a cruciate ligament rupture of the knee, after which he had a number of difficulties with the registration of labor relations in the NHL.
He played for the national team of Russia at the 1994 Olympics, where he scored 7 points (2 + 5) in 8 matches. Bronze medalist of the 2002 Olympics (6 matches, 1 assists).
The first goal in the NHL was on March 7, 1995 in the match against the New York Islanders . Participant in the 1998 Stanley Cup Finals.
Exchanges - November 9, 1996 was exchanged from Hartford to Washington for Curtis Leshishin . On November 1, 2002, he was exchanged from Washington to Chicago with Chris Simon for Michael Nyulander and the right to choose in the third round of the draft. June 21, 2003 traded from Chicago to Colorado Avalanche for the right to choose in the fourth round of the draft.
The 2004/05 lockout was held in CSKA (Moscow) , after which he continued his career in Russia.
In the first season of the KHL 2008/09 scored 39 points (10 + 29) in 48 matches for Chelyabinsk Tractor and added 1 goal in 3 playoff matches to the Gagarin Cup. In the 2009/10 season, he scored 22 points (7 + 15) in 46 matches of the KHL regular season and 2 playoff matches.
Member of the KHL All-Star Game (2009).
In October 2011, he signed an agreement with Kiev Sokol and played in the Professional Hockey League (PCH) of Ukraine.
October 23, 2014 appointed head coach of the Chelyabinsk "Tractor" [1] . Under his leadership, the Chelyabinsk team got into the playoffs, where in the first round they lost to Novosibirsk Siberia .
On November 23, 2015, he was dismissed after losing to Nizhnekamsk Neftekhimik in the away match of the KHL regular season with a score of 0: 3. December 4, 2015 was appointed head coach of the Khabarovsk Amur . Despite the efforts of the coaching staff, the Khabarovsk team did not get into the playoffs.
May 16, 2018 became the assistant head coach of Dynamo (Moscow) Vladimir Vorobyov [2] .
Statistics
| Team | Tournament season | Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||
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| AND | AT | HE / WB | N | Software / PB | P | ABOUT | Result | AT | P | Result | ||
| Tractor | KHL 2014-15 | 40 | 21 | eight | - | 7 | 24 | 66 | 15 place | 2 | four | Defeat in the 1/8 finals |
| KHL 2015-16 | 34 | 7 | 9 | - | 2 | sixteen | 41 | resignation | - | - | - | |
| Amur | KHL 2015-16 | 23 | 6 | 3 | - | 2 | 12 | 26 | 12th place in the East | Did not hit the playoffs | ||
| Total in the KHL | 97 | 34 | 20 | - | eleven | 52 | 133 | - | 2 | four | - | |
Facts
- Starred in the movie " Brother 2 ".
Notes
Links
- Andrey Nikolishin - statistics on Eliteprospects.com
- Andrey Nikolishin - statistics on European Ice Hockey Online AB (English)
- Andrey Nikolishin - profile on the NHL website
- Andrey Nikolishin - Olympic statistics on Sports-Reference.com
- Andrey Nikolishin - statistics on The Internet Hockey Database
- Interview to Sport-Express in 1998
- Interview to Sport-Express in 2011
- Dynamo. Encyclopedia / Compiled by G. L. Chernevich, E. A. Shkolnikov . - 2nd ed. - M .: "OLMA-Press", 2003. - 480 p. - ISBN 5-224-04399-9 .