{{short description|German ice hockey player (born 1979)}} {{Infobox ice hockey player | caption = | alt = | image = | image_size = 230px | position = Defenceman | shoots = Right | height_ft = 6 | height_in = 1 | weight_lb = 227 | played_for = Schwenninger Wild Wings<br>New Jersey Devils<br>Tampa Bay Lightning<br>Adler Mannheim<br>Hannover Scorpions | ntl_team = Germany | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1979|4|14|mf=y}} | birth_place = Calw, West Germany | draft = 159th overall | draft_year = 1997 | draft_team = New Jersey Devils | career_start = 1996 | career_end = 2017 }} '''Sascha Goc''' (born April 14, 1979) is a German former professional ice hockey who last played for the Schwenninger 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 play for Adler Mannheim.
==Playing career== As a youth, Goc played in the 1992 and 1993 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournaments with a team from Baden-Württemberg.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.publicationsports.com/ressources/files/439/Joueurs_Pro.pdf|title=Pee-Wee players who have reached NHL or WHA|year=2018|website=Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament|access-date=2019-02-02|archive-date=2019-03-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306085544/https://www.publicationsports.com/ressources/files/439/Joueurs_Pro.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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{{citation needed|date=February 2019}}. 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.{{citation needed|date=February 2019}} 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.{{citation needed|date=February 2019}}
On February 1, 2011, in his sixth season with the Scorpions, Goc signed a further two-year contract extension to remain in Hannover.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.hannoverscorpions.de/scorpions-aktuell.php?nid=752 | title = Sascha Goc renews as a Scorpion! | publisher = Hannover Scorpions | date = 2011-02-01 | accessdate = 2011-03-31 | language = German}}</ref>
After the Scorpions ceased operations in the DEL, Goc returned to his original club, the Schwenninger Wild Wings, who coincidentally bought Hannover's license to return to the DEL on July 18, 2013.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.wildwings.de/web/aktuell/detailansicht/zwei-neuzugaenge-fuer-die-wild-wings-4188/ | title = Goc and Rodman switch to Schwenningen | website = Schwenninger Wild Wings | date = 2013-07-18 | accessdate = 2013-07-18 | language = German | archive-date = 2013-07-21 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130721192512/http://www.wildwings.de/web/aktuell/detailansicht/zwei-neuzugaenge-fuer-die-wild-wings-4188/ | url-status = dead }}</ref>
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.{{citation needed|date=February 2019}}
==Career statistics== ===Regular season and playoffs=== {| border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="text-align:center; width:60em" |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" ! colspan="3" bgcolor="#ffffff" | ! rowspan="99" bgcolor="#ffffff" | ! colspan="5" | Regular season ! rowspan="99" bgcolor="#ffffff" | ! colspan="5" | Playoffs |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" ! Season ! Team ! League ! GP ! G ! A ! Pts ! PIM ! GP ! G ! A ! Pts ! PIM |- | 1994–95 | SERC Wild Wings | DEU U20 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 10 | — | — | — | — | — |- bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 1995–96 | SERC Wild Wings | DEU U20 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 77 | — | — | — | — | — |- | 1995–96 | SERC Wild Wings | DEL | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — |- bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 1996–97 | SERC Wild Wings | DEL | 41 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 26 | — | — | — | — | — |- | 1996–97 | SERC Wild Wings II | DEU.3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — |- bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 1997–98 | SERC Wild Wings | DEU U20 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | — | — | — | — | — |- | 1997–98 | SERC Wild Wings | DEL | 41 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 47 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 |- bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 1998–99 | Albany River Rats | AHL | 55 | 1 | 12 | 13 | 24 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |- | 1999–2000 | Albany River Rats | AHL | 64 | 9 | 22 | 31 | 35 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 |- bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 2000–01 | Albany River Rats | AHL | 55 | 10 | 29 | 39 | 49 | — | — | — | — | — |- | 2000–01 | New Jersey Devils | NHL | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | — | — | — | — | — |- bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 2001–02 | Albany River Rats | AHL | 10 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 12 | — | — | — | — | — |- | 2001–02 | New Jersey Devils | NHL | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — |- bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 2001–02 | Springfield Falcons | AHL | 36 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 30 | — | — | — | — | — |- | 2001–02 | Tampa Bay Lightning | NHL | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — |- bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 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 |- bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 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 |- bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 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 |- bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 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 |- bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 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 | — | — | — | — | — |- bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 2012–13 | Hannover Scorpions | DEL | 46 | 6 | 18 | 24 | 66 | — | — | — | — | — |- | 2013–14 | Schwenniger Wild Wings | DEL | 47 | 4 | 15 | 19 | 24 | — | — | — | — | — |- bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 2014–15 | Schwenniger Wild Wings | DEL | 49 | 8 | 21 | 29 | 42 | — | — | — | — | — |- | 2015–16 | Schwenniger Wild Wings | DEL | 49 | 2 | 18 | 20 | 74 | — | — | — | — | — |- bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 2016–17 | Schwenniger Wild Wings | DEL | 27 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 12 | — | — | — | — | — |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" ! colspan="3" | DEL totals ! 763 ! 152 ! 250 ! 402 ! 1148 ! 75 ! 16 ! 22 ! 38 ! 143 |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" ! colspan="3" | AHL totals ! 210 ! 23 ! 77 ! 100 ! 150 ! 7 ! 2 ! 0 ! 2 ! 6 |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" ! colspan="3" | NHL totals ! 22 ! 0 ! 0 ! 0 ! 4 ! — ! — ! — ! — ! — |}
===International=== {| border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" ID="Table3" style="text-align:center; width:40em" |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#e0e0e0" ! Year ! Team ! Event ! rowspan="99" bgcolor="#ffffff" | ! GP ! G ! A ! Pts ! PIM |- | 1996 | Germany | EJC | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |- bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 1997 | Germany | WJC | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 |- | 1997 | Germany | EJC | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 |- bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 1998 | Germany | WJC | 6 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 27 |- | 1998 | Germany | WC | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 |- bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 2003 | Germany | WC | 7 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 |- | 2004 | Germany | WCH | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |- bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 2006 | Germany | OG | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 |- | 2006 | Germany | WC D1 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 2 |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" ! colspan="3" | Junior totals ! 21 ! 0 ! 3 ! 3 ! 53 |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" ! colspan="3" | Senior totals ! 26 ! 7 ! 9 ! 16 ! 28 |}
==References== {{reflist}}
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