Sascha Goc

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.

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.

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.

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 1994–95 SERC Wild Wings DEU U20 14 5 1 6 10 — — — — — 1995–96 SERC Wild Wings DEU U20 11 3 6 9 77 — — — — — 1995–96 SERC Wild Wings DEL 1 0 0 0 0 — — — — — 1996–97 SERC Wild Wings DEL 41 3 1 4 26 — — — — — 1996–97 SERC Wild Wings II DEU.3 1 1 1 2 2 — — — — — 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 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 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 — — — — — 2013–14 Schwenniger Wild Wings DEL 47 4 15 19 24 — — — — — 2014–15 Schwenniger Wild Wings DEL 49 8 21 29 42 — — — — — 2015–16 Schwenniger Wild Wings DEL 49 2 18 20 74 — — — — — 2016–17 Schwenniger Wild Wings DEL 27 1 9 10 12 — — — — — DEL totals 763 152 250 402 1148 75 16 22 38 143 AHL totals 210 23 77 100 150 7 2 0 2 6 NHL totals 22 0 0 0 4 — — — — —

International Year Team Event GP G A Pts PIM 1996 Germany EJC 5 0 1 1 4 1997 Germany WJC 6 0 0 0 12 1997 Germany EJC 4 0 0 0 10 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 totals 21 0 3 3 53 Senior totals 26 7 9 16 28