Christian Pouget

Christian " Chris " Pouget ( born January 11, 1966 in Gap ) is a French former ice hockey player and current coach, who played in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga, among others, for the Adler Mannheim in its active from 1984 to 2009. Since February 2011 he has been head coach at the Mont- Blanc HC in the Ligue Magnus.

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Playing career

Christian Pouget began his career as a hockey player with the Draveurs de Trois- Rivières, which until 1986 he was active from 1984 in the Canadian Junior Football League QMJHL. Then the defender returned to his hometown, where he until 1989, was active from 1986 for the Gap Hockey Club in the Ligue Magnus, the highest French league, where he in 1986/87 season for the first time Trophée Albert Hassler as the best French players in the league received. He spent the following two seasons at Grenoble Métropole Hockey 38, with whom he won the 1991 French championship. Subsequently, he also played two years for the traditional club Chamonix Hockey Club, before he closed the season 1993 /94 HC Devils Milano in the Italian Serie A1, whereupon he received again in 1995 as a player of the Chamonix Albert Hassler Trophy. In the season 1995/96 he was 76 runner-up in France with Rouen Hockey Élite. Subsequently, the Adler Mannheim took him out of the German Ice Hockey League contract, with whom he was in consequence German Champion 1997, 1998 and three times in 1999. In Mannheim he was among the players guide and he scored a total of 147 DEL games 43 goals and 85 templates.

The 1999/2000 season spent Pouget the HC La Chaux -de-Fonds in the Swiss National League B. He could scorer with 40 points, including 19 goals, in 46 games also convince. From 2001 to 2003, played the longtime national team for his former club from Grenoble, in whose service he again received the Trophée Albert Hassler 2002. After a one year break from professional hockey, he joined his 2003 descended in the meantime, in the second class Division 1 hazardous club Chamonix Hockey Club at, for whom he played for two years before it from 2005 to 2009 in the Ligue Magnus for the Mont- Blanc HC aground, in which he then finished his playing career at the age of 43 years. Only in the playoffs the season 2006/ 07 he joined after the end of the season in France for the HC Valpellice in the Italian Serie A2.

Pouget belongs to the " golden generation " in the French Ice Hockey. He scored alongside Philippe Bozon and Denis Perez to the French exception players. For the French national team, he played a total of 87 caps, scoring 25 goals and had 28 assists. During his long career, he fell repeatedly by regular cannabis use.

Internationally

For France, Pouget adopted the B World Championships in 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991 and 2001, and the A World Championships in 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999 and 2004 in part. In addition, he was in the squad of his country at the Olympic Winter Games in Calgary in 1988, in Albertville in 1992 and 1998 in Nagano.

Awards and achievements

• 2002 Trophée Albert Hassler
• 2006 Ligue Magnus All-Star team
• 2007 Ligue Magnus All-Star team
• 2008 Ligue Magnus All-Star team
• 2009 Ligue Magnus All-Star team

Internationally

DEL stats

Coaching career

Even as an active player Pouget took his first job as a coach and supervised in 2008 and 2009 as assistant coach, the French Under-20 Junior National Team in their world championships of the First Division in the 2009/10 season, he was standing with Rodolphe Garnier at the Dragons de Rouen in Ligue Magnus as head coach behind the gang, while he was also an assistant coach at the U22 Junior. In February 2011 he released Christopher Lepers from as head coach of the Mont- Blanc HC.