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Sascha Goc

Sascha Goc
Born (1979-04-14) April 14, 1979 (age 38)
Calw, FRG
Height 6 ft 1 in (185 cm)
Weight 227 lb (103 kg; 16 st 3 lb)
Position Defenceman
Shoots Right
DEL team
Former teams
Schwenninger 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 1996–present

Sascha Goc (born April 14, 1979 in Calw, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany) is a German ice hockey player currently playing 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.

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 Schwenningen Wild Wings, who coincidentally bought Hannover's license to return to the DEL on July 18, 2013.


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