Pascal Berger (ice hockey player)

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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

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
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:

year team event Sp T V Pt SM
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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Claudia Blasi man and Benjamin Muschg: Krueger decides to SCB. Tages-Anzeiger , July 23, 2010, accessed February 8, 2012 .
  2. ↑ NZZ, Berger and Randegger on the SCL Tigers , December 3, 2015
  3. ↑ a b Urs Keel (Ed.): Ice Hockey Stars 2012 . SC Bern, 2011, p. 2 .
  4. ↑ a b Pascal Berger two months out. hockeyfans, November 20, 2010, accessed February 8, 2012 .
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Squad of the SCL Tigers in the 2019/20 season
personal data
SURNAME Berger, Pascal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Burgdorf BE