Sergei Gonchar
Sergei Gonchar (Russian: Сергей Викторович Гончар; born April 13, 1974 in Chelyabinsk, Russian SFSR ) is a Russian ice hockey player standing since June 2013 with the Dallas Stars in the National Hockey League contract.
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Career
Gonchar began his career at Mechel Chelyabinsk, for which he ran aground in the 1990/91 season in the second-rate Perwaja league. In the course of the season he moved at the age of 16 years to local rivals Traktor Chelyabinsk, for which he completed twelve relegation matches the Wysschaja league. In the following season, he came to a total of 31 missions in the highest Soviet League, before joining Dynamo Moscow in the summer of 1992. During the NHL Entry Draft 1992 Gonchar has been selected in the first round at 14th overall position of the Washington Capitals.
Between 1992 and 1994 he was active for Dynamo in the International Hockey League. During these two years Gonchar played more of a defensive -oriented defender role and was occasionally involved in fist fights, among others, Alexander Selivanov, then playing for Spartak Moscow. 1993 won the championship Dynamo Gonchar with the International Hockey League, where he was employed in all ten playoff games. The following season he reached with Dynamo again the playoff final, in which his team the HK Lada Togliatti defeated with 2:3. After the end of the season in the IHL Gonchar flew to North America and completed two playoff games for the farm team of the Washington Capitals, the Portland Pirates in the American Hockey League. With the Pirates, he won at the end of the Calder Cup Playoffs.
From the 1994/95 AHL season Gonchar belonged to the permanent staff of the Portland Pirates. On February 7, 1995 Gonchar made his debut in the National Hockey League with a game the Capitals against the Buffalo Sabres. In the 1998/99 season he scored the first Russian defenders more than 20 goals in an NHL season. At the end of the seasons 2000/ 01 and 2002/ 03 Gonchar was appointed Second All-Star Team in the NHL.
In March 2004, the defender of the Capitals in exchange for Shaone Morrisonn and two draft picks was transferred to the Boston Bruins. This season he scored 58 points scorer more like any other defender. After the failed by a lockout season 2004/ 05, the spent Gonchar in his home at Metallurg Magnitogorsk, he signed a five-year contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins. With the Penguins, he won the 2009 Stanley Cup. July 1, 2010 Gonchar signed a three year contract with the Ottawa Senators.
Due to the NHL lockout Gonchar played from September to December again in 2012 for the Metallurg Magnitogorsk in the Kontinental Hockey League. Then he returned to Ottawa and was there with 24 templates the best passer of the team. In June 2013, the senator transferred his rights to the Dallas Stars, with whom he shortly afterwards signed a new two year contract.
Internationally
Gonchar represented his country in both the junior and senior level on the international stage.
For the first time played the defending champion at the European Junior Championships in 1992 for Russia. The team went on to win the bronze medal, with Gonchar was one of the best players of the tournament. He was appointed to the All- Star team of the tournament and also named the best defensive player of the competition. A year later, he ran on at the Junior World Championships in 1993, where a medal win, however, was missed.
For the selection of seniors Sbornaja Gonchar first appeared at the World Cup of Hockey 1996 appearance. Two years later he played in the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan again for the selection, won after a tight final defeat by the Czech Republic silver. His first World Cup was played by the defender in 2000. During the World Cup in their own country the ambitious team disappointed but excessive and ended selbige on the eleventh. After Gonchar was at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City for Russia on the ice and won the bronze medal. He also was a member of the squad at the World Cup of Hockey in 2004 and the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, which ended Russia without a medal win. Only at the 2007 World Championships won Gonchar with the bronze medal again precious metal, another silver medal followed at the 2010 World Cup. Moreover, he graduated at the Olympic Winter Games Vancouver 2010 Olympic Hockey his fourth tournament. His most successful tournament personally graduated from the Russian with the 2007 World Cup, when he scored a goal in nine games and four more prepared.
Awards and achievements
- 2003 NHL All-Star Game
- 2003 NHL Second All-Star Team
- 2004 Most Valuable Player of the Spengler Cup
- 2004 All- Star team the Spengler Cup
- 2008 NHL All-Star Game
- 2009 Stanley Cup win with the Pittsburgh Penguins
Internationally
- 2002 bronze medal at the Winter Olympics
- 2007 bronze medal at the World Championships
- 2010 Silver medal at the World Championships
Career Stats
Internationally
Represented Russia at:
- European Junior Championships 1992
- World Youth Championship 1993
- World Cup of Hockey 1996
- 1998 Winter Olympics
- World Cup 2000
- 2002 Winter Olympics
- World Cup of Hockey 2004
- 2006 Winter Olympics
- World Cup 2007
- 2010 Winter Olympics
- World Cup 2010
( 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 )