Career
Antipov began playing for Torpedo Yaroslavl, playing on their junior team He was then drafted 103rd overall by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 1996 National Hockey League Entry Draft and Antipov was promoted to the senior team In 1999, Antipov signed with the Maple Leafs organization and in a two-year stay he had spells in the American Hockey League with the Saint John"s Maple Leafs, the ECHL with the South Carolina Stingrays and the International Hockey League with the Long Beach Ice Dogs but never managed to play in the National Hockey League.
Antipov soon returned to Russia and re-signed with Yaroslavl who changed their name from Torpedo to Lokomotiv.
Antipov would be ever present with the team for the next five seasons until 2006 where he signed for Salavat Yulaev Ufa.