Marcel Goc
Marcel Goc ( born August 24, 1983 in Calw ) is a German ice hockey player. Since March 2014, he plays for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League on the position of the center. His two brothers Sasha and Nikolai are also professional hockey players.
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Career
Goc started his hockey career at the age of three years with the ESG Esslingen, from where he moved to the junior to Schwenningen 1997. Because of his talent, he was already 16 years old made his debut in the jersey of the Schwenningen Wild Wings in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga in his first professional year, he recorded only three assists in 51 of 56 games this season. In his second season, the striker has increased its yield to 41 scorer points, which meant that he was pulled in the NHL Entry Draft in 2001 by the San Jose Sharks in the first round in 20th place. He is the highest they drafted German court player of all time. Towards the end of the season 2001/ 02 he moved to the Adler Mannheim German with whom he was runner-up in the same year after a close final series against the victorious Kölner Haie. Goc was yet another season in Mannheim, before he moved following the 2002/ 03 season to North America to the San Jose Sharks.
In his first year overseas, he played primarily at the Cleveland Barons, the former farm team of the San Jose Sharks in the American Hockey League. Only in the course of the playoffs the season 2003/ 04 he came to his first stakes in the NHL. In the five games he played, he scored one goal and set up another front. Goc, whose first NHL goal at the same time decided the playoff series against the Colorado Avalanche, making it the first and only player in the history of the Sharks, who made his debut for the franchise during the playoffs. With the lockout in the season 2004/ 05 the German could at first no more games for San Jose deny. But he remained in contrast to some other German players in North America to be recommended in the farm team for the NHL team. Finally, at the beginning of the season 2005/ 06 he was a regular place at the San Jose Sharks, mainly in the third and fourth forward line as a defensive forward and shorthanded situations. Nevertheless he reached in 81 games 22 points and remained in the season 2006/ 07 starting players, though he could not improve his offensive statistics. Due to the balanced squad, the oversupply of defensive forwards and back problems came Goc during the first half of the season 2007 /08 significantly less in use. This continued in the second half of the season, because the internal competition, especially in the offensive was significantly more present than Goc. Nevertheless, the management decided, even though his contract had expired, as opposed to Patrick Rissmiller and Curtis Brown to hold it, and fitted with a new one-year contract after both parties had initially agreed on a contract dispute before the tribunal of the NHL.
A year later, for the Germans at the end of the Nordkaliforniern despite a solid season with the Sharks. In August 2009, it therefore took the Nashville Predators by two-way contract with validity for the NHL and AHL for a year under contract. Since Goc had already with ten goals set a personal high end of January 2010 and only three points scorer was removed from his highest career value, the Predators extended the contract early by one year on improved terms.
On 1 July 2011, he signed as a free agent contract with the Florida Panthers. With the consent of the Florida Panthers during the NHL lockout, he moved in 2012 back in the DEL and played there for the Adler Mannheim.
Shortly before the trade deadline on March 5, 2014 changed Goc in exchange for a third - and a fifth -round vote in the NHL Entry Draft to the Pittsburgh Penguins.
Internationally
Goc represented his native country because of his talent already at junior level. He first came at the age of 17 years at the U20 World Youth Championship 2000 is used. In the same year he also played in the U18 World Youth Championship. He was also used in the following year in two World Cup tournaments in the juniors. He had more inserts at the U20 World Junior Championships in 2002 and 2003. For the senior team, he ran at the World Championships in 2001, 2003, 2005 and 2008, as well as the World Cup of Hockey in 2004, the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin and 2010 in Vancouver. On the way home World Cup in 2010, as Germany reached the semi-finals, Goc was captain of the national team.
Awards and achievements
- 2002 promotion to the top division at the U20 Junior World Championship Division I
Career Stats
Internationally
Represented Germany at:
- U20 Junior B World Cup 2000
- U18 Junior World Championship 2000
- U20 World Junior Championships Division I 2001
- U18 Junior World Championship 2001
- World Cup 2001
- U20 World Junior Championships Division I 2002
- U20 Junior World Championship 2003
- 2003 World Cup
- World Cup of Hockey 2004
- World Championship 2005
- 2006 Winter Olympics
- World Championship 2008
- 2010 Winter Olympics
( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )