Man of the Week: Dylan Sikura
KHL.ru’s weekly column returns with Dylan Sikura. The Canadian forward showed fantastic shape before the league stopped for the Channel One Cup, recording points in nine games out of ten, with Dynamo Moscow taking home seven of these matches, including six straight wins. With this streak, the Blue-and-Whites returned to top four in the Western Conference, surpassing Torpedo.
At 30 years old, Dylan Sikura arrives at the spotlight fully in shape — and currently riding a surge of form. In the most recent ten games of the current campaign before the pause, he scored in nine of them, totaling nine goals and six assists — a scorching fifteen-point pace that has turned heads. Sikura’s production also fueled Dynamo Moscow’s excellent results of late. The team won six straight matches, with six victories in eight games under new head coach Vyacheslav Kozlov after Alexei Kudashov’s dismissal in mid-November. With this streak, the Blue-and-Whites returned to the top four places in the Western Conference after surpassing Torpedo.
Early years
Dylan Sikura was born on June 01, 1995, in Aurora, Ontario, from a sports family, with his brothers involved in professional hockey and his sister playing football. Dylan cut his teeth in the Ontario Junior Hockey League with the Aurora Tigers: over three seasons he showed his scoring touch — notably with 64 points in 41 games in 2013-2014. He committed to Northeastern University in 2014 and over four seasons, once again, he steadily improved.
In 2016-2017 he posted 57 points, tied for 6th nationally, with 36 assists among the highest in the country, with some of the top scorers being today KHL forwards Spencer Foo and Michael Vecchione. In the next season, he had 54 points and helped Northeastern win the program’s first Beanpot Tournament title in 30 years (with him picking up two assists in the deciding game). That surge in production made him a candidate for the prestigious Hobey Baker Award as the top NCAA player in his junior and senior seasons.
Ranking up
In the 2014 NHL Entry Draft, Sikura was selected in the 6th round, 178th overall by the Chicago Blackhawks. He signed his entry-level contract on March 25, 2018 and made his debut only four days later, recording two assists against the Winnipeg Jets.
Over five seasons in North America, Sikura’s path was the kind many talented players tread — flashes of promise, but never quite the permanent NHL breakthrough. Overall in the NHL, he played 58 games, registering three goals, fourteen assists, seventeen points, and a plus-5 differential. More consistently, he produced in the AHL, with a career high of 73 (33+40) points in 2021-2022 with the Colorado Eagles. Despite being productive, NHL opportunities remained limited: Sikura had stints with the Blackhawks, then brief spells with the Vegas Golden Knights (six games with two goals in 2020-2021) and the Colorado Avalanche (five games with one assist in 2021-2022).
Moving to Europe
After a final season in the AHL split between the Rockford IceHogs and the San Diego Gulls, Sikura opted for a move overseas, signing with the Skelleftea AIK of the Sweden Hockey League for the 2023-2024 season. The move was a success for the forward. Across 49 regular-season games he had ten goals and 16 assists for 26 points. In the playoffs he added nine points in thirteen games, contributing to Skelleftea’s first Swedish championship in a decade. Sikura also added eight points in nine games in the Champions Hockey League as Skelleftea reached the final.
Move to the KHL
After his successful stint in the SHL, in June 2024 Sikura signed a one-year contract with Traktor, marking his first season in Russia. In 2024-2025 with the Chelyabinsk franchise, he played 28 games, with five goals and ten assists before being traded to Dynamo Moscow at the trade deadline in exchange for defenseman Andrei Pribylsky and forward Matvei Guskov.
At Dynamo, he quickly found rhythm; in that same season he contributed eight goals and six assists in 28 games after the move, then added another twelve points in seventeen postseason games. And this year, he’s faring even better, now on pace for a point a game. With this strong game, Dynamo Moscow likely found another leader who can lead the team in the playoffs after last year’s strong run.
