Sascha Goc

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Sascha Goc
Born (1979-04-14) April 14, 1979
Calw, FRG
Height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight 227 lb (103 kg; 16 st 3 lb)
Position Defenceman
Shoots Right
DEL team
Former teams
Schwenningen Wild Wings
New Jersey Devils
Tampa Bay Lightning
Adler Mannheim
Hannover Scorpions
National team  Germany
NHL Draft 159th overall, 1997
New Jersey Devils
Playing career 1996present

Sascha Goc (born April 14, 1979 in Calw, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany) is a German ice hockey player currently playing for the Schwenningen Wild Wings of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL). Goc played in the National Hockey League for the New Jersey Devils and the Tampa Bay Lightning. His younger brothers, Marcel and Nikolai currently plays for the Florida Panthers and Adler Mannheim respectively.

Playing career

Goc was drafted 157th overall by the New Jersey Devils in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft where he played 13 games without scoring a point and collecting four penalty minutes. On November 9, 2001, he was traded by the Devils, along with Josef Boumedienne and Anton Butt to the Tampa Bay Lightning for Andrei Zyuzin. He played in nine games with the Lightning without scoring a point. While in North America he also played in the American Hockey League for the Albany River Rats and the Springfield Falcons.

In 2002 he went back to Germany to play for Adler Mannheim and before moving to Hannover, where he scored 17 goals and 13 assists for 30 points in 50 games in 2005–06.

On February 1, 2011, in his sixth season with the Scorpions, Goc signed a further two-year contract extension to remain in Hannover.[1]

After the Scorpions ceased operations in the DEL, Goc returned to his original club, the Schwenningen Wild Wings, who coincidently bought Hannover's license to return to the DEL on July 18, 2013.[2]

Goc is a valued penalty killer. He was a member on the Germany hockey team in the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan and in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, leading Germany to the quarterfinals before losing to the United States 5–0.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

Regular season Playoffs
Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
1995–96 Schwenningen Wild Wings DEL 1 0 0 0 0
1996–97 Schwenningen Wild Wings DEL 41 3 1 4 26
1997–98 Schwenningen Wild Wings DEL 41 3 4 7 47 8 2 1 3 2
1998–99 Albany River Rats AHL 55 1 12 13 24 2 0 0 0 0
1999–00 Albany River Rats AHL 64 9 22 31 35 5 2 0 2 6
2000–01 Albany River Rats AHL 55 10 29 39 49
2000–01 New Jersey Devils NHL 11 0 0 0 4
2001–02 Albany River Rats AHL 10 0 5 5 12
2001–02 New Jersey Devils NHL 2 0 0 0 0
2001–02 Springfield Falcons AHL 36 3 9 12 30
2001–02 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 9 0 0 0 0
2002–03 Adler Mannheim DEL 49 1 3 4 87 7 1 0 1 41
2003–04 Adler Mannheim DEL 46 5 12 17 58 3 0 0 0 0
2004–05 Adler Mannheim DEL 39 1 4 5 67 14 0 0 0 0
2005–06 Hannover Scorpions DEL 50 17 13 30 164 10 2 4 6 64
2006–07 Hannover Scorpions DEL 38 20 24 44 107 6 2 2 4 10
2007–08 Hannover Scorpions DEL 38 9 21 30 90 3 1 0 1 10
2008–09 Hannover Scorpions DEL 48 24 16 40 108 11 4 10 14 10
2009–10 Hannover Scorpions DEL 52 17 24 41 72 11 4 5 9 6
2010–11 Hannover Scorpions DEL 52 23 28 51 70 2 0 0 0 0
2011–12 Hannover Scorpions DEL 50 8 19 27 34
2012–13 Hannover Scorpions DEL 46 6 18 24 66
DEL totals 591 137 187 324 996 80 16 22 38 143
NHL totals 22 0 0 0 4

International

Year Team Comp GP G A Pts PIM
1997 Germany WJC 6 0 0 0 12
1998 Germany WJC 6 0 2 2 27
1998 Germany WC 6 1 2 3 8
2003 Germany WC 7 0 2 2 6
2004 Germany WCH 3 0 0 0 2
2006 Germany OG 5 0 0 0 10
2006 Germany WC-D1 5 6 5 11 2
Junior int'l totals 12 0 2 2 39
Senior int'l totals 26 7 9 16 28

References

  1. "Sascha Goc renews as a Scorpion!" (in German). Hannover Scorpions. 2011-02-01. Retrieved 2011-03-31. 
  2. "Goc and Rodman switch to Schwenningen" (in German). Schwenningen Wild Wings. 2013-07-18. Retrieved 2013-07-18. 

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