Vitali Sitnikov

Vitali Sitnikov is a Russian forward on Automobilist Ekaterinburg.

Sitniov played six seasons in the Russian Second League with Sputnik Nizhny Tagil before making his Russian Super League debut in 2006. He had a few good seasons with the team, including a 39-point, 60-penalty minute campaign in 2003-04, and was signed by HC MVD for the 2006-07 season. He had 6 points in 15 games with the club that year, but returned to the Russian Second League when he signed with Automobilist Ekaterinburg the following year. He had 28 goals and 58 points with the team in 2008-09, helping it back into the KHL, where he set a career high with 106 penalty minutes in 2009-10.