Philip Gogulla
Philip Gogulla ( born July 31, 1987 in Dusseldorf ) is a German professional ice hockey player standing since 2007 with the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League under contract and since summer 2010 playing again for the Kölner Haie in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. His younger brother Patrik is also a professional hockey player.
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Career
Philip Gogulla began his professional career at the Krefeld Penguins, where he was already 15 years the team of the CEC in the German junior league. From 2002 to 2004, the winger impressed by excellent technique and a good scoring rate, after which he was obliged to season 2004/ 05 by the Kölner Haie. Originally Gogulla should be in the DNL team or production license partner mosquitoes food are used, played due to the injury problems KEC but a majority of the playing time for the DEL team. NHL Entry Draft 2005, the attacker was selected on a total of 48 out of the Buffalo Sabres.
In the season 2005/ 06 the links Sagittarius played the entire season for the DEL team of sharks, scored 26 points scorer and reached the semifinals of the KEC play-offs. Although Gogullas contract ran in Cologne until 2009, the Sabres took him in the summer of 2007 for three years under contract, but both clubs agreed that the attacker should first fulfill his contract in Cologne. On March 22, 2008, there was in the play-off quarter-final against the Adler Mannheim to the longest match of the German Ice Hockey History, which was decided after 168 minutes and 16 seconds with a goal by Philip Gogulla favor of the Kölner Haie.
In summer 2009, after his contract had expired at the sharks, he finally moved to North America in the National Hockey League with the Buffalo Sabres. However, he did not make it in the NHL squad of Sabres and played in the American Hockey League with the Portland Pirates, before he returned to the Cologne Sharks in June 2010 and there signed a contract until 2013.
Internationally
His first try for a selection of the German Ice Hockey Federation denied Gogulla at the U18 World Cup in 2004, where he was one of the best players and played a major role in the rise of the national team. More tournament inserts received the attacker at the U18 World Cup in 2005 and in the U20 World Cup in 2006, where he again was one of the best players of the tournament and the U20 selection made the chances of promotion. Furthermore, belonged to the extended squad Gogulla the senior team for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, was canceled shortly before the tournament. In the Division I World Championship in the same year in Amiens, however, he was part of the squad and managed with the national team the direct resurgence. In the 2010 World Cup in Germany he scored the decisive goal in a 1-0 victory over Switzerland, which the German national team moved into the semifinals of the tournament.
Awards and achievements
- 2006 DEL All-Star Game
Internationally
- 2004 promotion to the top division at the U18 Junior World Championship Division I
- 2006 promotion to the top division at the U20 Junior World Championship Division I
- 2006 Best original donor of the U20 Junior World Championship Division I, Group A
- 2006 promotion to the top division at the World Championships Division I
Career Stats
Internationally
Represented Germany at:
- World U -17 Hockey Challenge 2004
- U18 World Junior Championships Division I 2004
- U18 World Junior Championships 2005
- U20 World Junior Championships Division I 2006
- World Championship Division I 2006
- U20 World Junior Championships 2007
- World Cup 2007
- World Championship 2008
- World Cup 2009
- World Cup 2010
- World Cup 2011
( 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 )