Pascal Berger (ice hockey player)
Date of birth | March 24, 1989 |
place of birth | Burgdorf , Switzerland |
Size | 177 cm |
Weight | 79 kg |
position | striker |
number | # 89 |
Shot hand | Right |
Career stations | |
until 2006 | EHC Burgdorf |
2006-2016 | SC Bern |
since 2016 | SCL Tigers |
Pascal Berger (born March 24, 1989 in Burgdorf ) is a Swiss ice hockey player who has been playing in the National League A with the SCL Tigers since 2016 . His younger brother Alain is also a professional ice hockey player.
Career
Pascal Berger started playing ice hockey at the age of three in the junior department of EHC Burgdorf . While he was still a junior, Berger moved to the junior department at SC Bern . In the 2006/07 season , Pascal Berger played his first NLA game in the PostFinance Arena in Bern in front of over 16,000 spectators.
By the end of the 2007/08 season , Berger had played 39 games in the top Swiss ice hockey league, scoring three goals and providing three assists . At times, the striker on loan at was SC Langenthal and Young-Sprinters Hockey Club in the National League B active.
In the 2009/10 season he won the Swiss championship with SC Bern, with Berger finishing the last game of the final series against Genève-Servette HC with the goal of a 4-1 victory. From spring 2010, the right-wing shooter struggled with groin problems, which in July 2010 required an operation. In the following season, the right-shooter played only 29 NLA games in the regular season due to injury.
Berger has been under contract with the SCL Tigers since the 2016/17 season .
Berger acts in the position of the winger, preferably as a right wing. The attacker is considered a sniper who needs few opportunities to score a goal.
International
Berger played in all of the junior national teams (U16, U17, U18, U20) of the Swiss Ice Hockey Federation . The offensive player achieved his greatest success as a junior player on an international level at the U20 World Junior Championship in 2009 , where Berger and his brother Alain played for the Swiss team in Division I and promoted to the top division with the national team of his home country reached. The right-shooter was instrumental in this success with five hits and three assists, only Grégory Sciaroni (10) and Manuel Zigerli (8) had at least as many points to show. Previously, he had participated in the top division of the U18 Juniors 2007 and the U20 Juniors 2008 World Championships for the Swiss Confederation .
In November 2010 the striker made his debut in the Germany Cup in the Swiss national team . In the first game of the tournament against Team Canada , a blow to the right hand incapacitated him. This caused a complex wrist fracture, which caused the attacker to be out of play for over two months.
Achievements and Awards
- 2009 Elite A Junior Champion with SC Bern
- 2010 Swiss champion with SC Bern
- 2013 Swiss champion with SC Bern
- 2015 Swiss Cup winner with SC Bern
- 2016 Swiss champions with SC Bern
International
- 2009 promotion to the top division at the U20 World Junior Championship of Division I.
Career statistics
Regular season | Play-offs | |||||||||||||
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season | team | league | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | ||
2006/07 | SC Bern | NLA | 14th | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
2006/07 | SC Langenthal | NLB | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2007/08 | SC Bern | NLA | 25th | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4th | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
2007/08 | Young Sprinters Hockey Club | NLB | 19th | 7th | 3 | 10 | 32 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2008/09 | SC Bern | NLA | 45 | 4th | 3 | 7th | 12 | 4th | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
2008/09 | Young Sprinters Hockey Club | NLB | 4th | 2 | 4th | 6th | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2009/10 | SC Bern | NLA | 49 | 7th | 7th | 14th | 16 | 15th | 4th | 4th | 8th | 6th | ||
2010/11 | SC Bern | NLA | 29 | 6th | 9 | 15th | 6th | 11 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6th | ||
2011/12 | SC Bern | NLA | 50 | 18th | 14th | 32 | 6th | 17th | 4th | 6th | 10 | 6th | ||
2012/13 | SC Bern | NLA | 50 | 7th | 8th | 15th | 22nd | 20th | 3 | 1 | 4th | 4th | ||
2013/14 | SC Bern | NLA | 46 | 8th | 6th | 14th | 10 | 6 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
2014/15 | SC Bern | NLA | 50 | 5 | 6th | 11 | 10 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
2015/16 | SC Bern | NLA | 48 | 8th | 13 | 21st | 18th | 14th | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | ||
NLA total | 406 | 66 | 69 | 135 | 103 | 99 | 15th | 16 | 31 | 24 | ||||
NLB total | 26th | 9 | 7th | 16 | 34 | - | - | - | - | - |
International
Represented Switzerland at:
- U18 Junior World Championship 2007
- U20 Junior World Championship 2008
- U20 Junior World Championship 2009 of Division I.
year | team | event | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | |
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2007 | Switzerland | U18 World Cup | 6th | 2 | 2 | 4th | 6th | |
2008 | Switzerland | U20 World Cup | 6th | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
2009 | Switzerland | U20 World Cup Div. I. | 5 | 5 | 3 | 8th | 10 | |
Juniors overall | 17th | 7th | 5 | 12 | 16 |
( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1 play-downs / relegation )
Web links
- Pascal Berger at eliteprospects.com (English)
- Pascal Berger at hockeyfans.ch
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Claudia Blasi man and Benjamin Muschg: Krueger decides to SCB. Tages-Anzeiger , July 23, 2010, accessed February 8, 2012 .
- ↑ NZZ, Berger and Randegger on the SCL Tigers , December 3, 2015
- ↑ a b Urs Keel (Ed.): Ice Hockey Stars 2012 . SC Bern, 2011, p. 2 .
- ↑ a b Pascal Berger two months out. hockeyfans, November 20, 2010, accessed February 8, 2012 .
Goalkeepers:
Damiano Ciaccio |
Ivars Punnenov's
defender:
Yannick Blaser ( A ) |
Claudio Cadonau |
Samuel Erni |
Andrea Glauser ( A ) |
Anthony Huguenin |
Federico Lardi |
Larri Leeger |
Sebastian Schilt
Attacker:
Nils Berger |
Pascal Berger ( C ) |
Christopher DiDomenico |
Nolan Diem |
Alexei Dostoinov |
Robbie Earl |
Aaron Gagnon |
Loïc In-Albon |
Raphaël Kuonen |
Ben Maxwell |
Benjamin Neukom |
Stefan Rüegsegger |
Julian Schmutz
Head Coach: Heinz Ehlers Assistant Coach: Rikard Franzén General Manager: Marco Bayer
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Berger, Pascal |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss ice hockey player |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 24, 1989 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Burgdorf BE |