Christian Pouget

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Christian Pouget
Date of birth January 11, 1966
place of birth Gap , France
size 180 cm
Weight 82 kg
position Defender / Left Wing
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1984-1986 Draveurs de Trois-Rivières
1986-1989 Gap Hockey Club
1989-1991 Grenoble Métropole Hockey 38
1991-1993 Chamonix Hockey Club
1993-1994 HC Devils Milano
1994-1995 Chamonix Hockey Club
1995-1996 Rouen Hockey Elite 76
1996-1999 Adler Mannheim
1999-2000 HC La Chaux-de-Fonds
2000-2002 Grenoble Métropole Hockey 38
2003-2005 Chamonix Hockey Club
2005-2007 Mont-Blanc HC
2007 HC Valpellice
2007-2009 Mont-Blanc HC

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

Player career

Christian Pouget began his career as a hockey player with the Draveurs de Trois-Rivières , for which he was active from 1984 to 1986 in the Canadian junior league QMJHL . The defender then returned to his hometown, where he was active from 1986 to 1989 for the Gap Hockey Club in the Ligue Magnus , the top French division, where he won the Albert Hassler Trophy for the first time as the best French in the 1986/87 season League player received. The following two seasons he spent at Grenoble Métropole Hockey 38 , with which he won the French championship in 1991 . He then also played for two years for the traditional Chamonix Hockey Club before bridging the 1993/94 season with HC Devils Milano in the Italian A1 series , whereupon he received the Albert Hassler Trophy again in 1995 as a Chamonix player. In the 1995/96 season he was with Rouen Hockey Elite 76 runner-up in France. Then the Adler Mannheim from the German ice hockey league took him under contract, with which he was German champions three times in a row in 1997, 1998 and 1999 . In Mannheim he was one of the leading players and he scored 43 goals and 85 assists in a total of 147 DEL games.

The 1999/2000 season spent Pouget at HC La Chaux-de-Fonds in the Swiss National League B . There he was able to convince with 40 points scorer, including 19 goals, in 46 games. From 2001 to 2003 the long-time national player played for his former club from Grenoble, in whose service he again received the Albert Hassler Trophy in 2002. After a one-year break from professional ice hockey, he joined his ex-club Chamonix Hockey Club, which had meanwhile been relegated to the second-rate Division 1 , in 2003 , for which he played for two years before joining the Ligue Magnus from 2005 to 2009 Mont-Blanc HC came up , where he then ended his active career at the age of 43. Only in the playoffs of the 2006/07 season did he appear after the end of the season in France for HC Valpellice in the Italian A2 series .

Pouget belongs to the "golden generation" in French ice hockey. Along with Philippe Bozon and Denis Perez, he was one of the exceptional French players. For the French national team , he played a total of 87 internationals, scored 25 goals and provided 28 assists. During his long career, he was repeatedly noticed by regular cannabis use . In 1997 a corresponding doping test was positive and he was banned by the French association for 10 months, of which six weeks without parole.

International

For France , Pouget took part in 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 . He was also in his country's squad at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary , 1992 in Albertville and 1998 in Nagano .

Achievements and Awards

  • 2002 Albert Hassler Trophy
  • 2006 Ligue Magnus All-Star Team
  • 2007 Ligue Magnus All-Star Team
  • 2008 Ligue Magnus All-Star Team
  • 2009 Ligue Magnus All-Star Team

International

DEL statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
Main round 3 128 36 68 104 144
Playoffs 2 19th 7th 17th 24 16

Coaching career

Still as an active player, Pouget took his first job as a coach and in 2008 and 2009 he was the assistant coach of the French U20 junior national team at their Division I World Championships. In the 2009/10 season he was with Rodolphe Garnier at the Dragons de Rouen in Ligue Magnus as head coach behind the gang, while at the same time he was assistant coach for their U22 juniors. In February 2011 he replaced Christopher Lepers as head coach of the Mont-Blanc HC.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Positively disinhibited Der Spiegel November 30, 1998
  2. ↑ La Chaux-de-Fonds hires Pouget as a Lebeau replacement www.hockeyfans.ch April 27, 1999
personal data
SURNAME Pouget, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pouget, Chris (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Gap , France