Sascha Goc (born April 14, 1979) is a German former professional

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who last played for the

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of the

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(DEL). Goc played in the

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for the

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and the

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. His younger brothers Marcel and Nikolai currently play for

Adler Mannheim The Adler Mannheim (English: ''Mannheim Eagles'', formerly Mannheimer ERC) is a professional ice hockey team of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga, the highest-level ice hockey league in Germany. The team is based in Mannheim, a city in the northern pa ...

Playing career

As a youth, Goc played in the 1992 and 1993

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s with a team from

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. Goc was drafted 157th overall by the

in the

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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

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and Anton Butt to the Tampa Bay Lightning for

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. He played in nine games with the Lightning without scoring a point. While in North America he also played in the

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for the

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and the

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. 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

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and in the

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, leading Germany to the quarterfinals before losing to the

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Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Goc, Sascha 1979 births Living people Albany River Rats players Adler Mannheim players German ice hockey defencemen Hannover Scorpions players Ice hockey players at the 2006 Winter Olympics New Jersey Devils draft picks New Jersey Devils players Olympic ice hockey players of Germany People from Calw Sportspeople from Karlsruhe (region) Schwenninger Wild Wings players Springfield Falcons players Tampa Bay Lightning players German people of Czech descent German expatriate ice hockey people German expatriate sportspeople in the United States Expatriate ice hockey players in the United States