Sacha Guimond

Sacha Guimond
Date of birth	March 28, 1991
place of birth	Ville-Marie , Québec , Canada
size	190 cm
Weight	78 kg
position	defender
number	# 44
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
2010-2011	London Knights
2011–2012	Drakkar de Baie-Comeau
2012-2013	San Francisco Bulls
2013	Gwinnett Gladiators
2013-2014	Utica Comets
2014	Ontario Reign
2014-2015	Kalamazoo Wings
2015	HC 05 Banská Bystrica
2015-2016	Kalamazoo Wings
2016-2017	HDD Olimpija Ljubljana
since 2017	HC Innsbruck

Sacha Guimond (born March 28, 1991 in Ville-Marie , Québec ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with HC Innsbruck in the Austrian ice hockey league since 2017 .

Career

Guimond played in his youth between December 2010 and spring 2012 in the Ontario Hockey League with the London Knights and the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec with the Drakkar de Baie-Comeau .

The defender began his professional career in the 2012/13 season with the San Francisco Bulls in the ECHL and later moved to the Gwinnett Gladiators within the league during the year . He also played six games in the American Hockey League with the Worcester Sharks and Norfolk Admirals during the season on loan . After the season he was named the ECHL's best defender . At the same time he was appointed to the ECHL All-Rookie and First All-Star Team .

On July 12, 2013, Guimond signed a one-year contract with the Utica Comets , the AHL partner of the Vancouver Canucks , but only played two games for the team. Instead, he continued to work for Gwinnett in the ECHL before being transferred to the Ontario Reign from the ECHL in January 2014 . The 2014/15 season he started with the Kalamazoo Wings in the ECHL. At the end of the season he joined the HC 05 Banská Bystrica from the Slovakian extra league . For the following game year he returned to Kalamazoo. After a second year with the Kalamazoo Wings, Guimond moved again to Europe for HDD Olimpija Ljubljana in the Erste Bank Ice Hockey League . After a season with the dragons , he moved to HC Innsbruck .

Achievements and Awards

• 2013 ECHL Defenseman of the Year
• 2013 ECHL All-Rookie Team
• 2013 ECHL First All-Star Team

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2010/11	London Knights	OHL		34	1	5	6th	8th		6th	0	3	3	0
2011/12	Drakkar de Baie-Comeau	QMJHL		65	9	32	41	16		8th	1	1	2	2
2012/13	San Francisco Bulls	ECHL		33	7th	18th	25th	22nd		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Gwinnett Gladiators	ECHL		25th	5	19th	24	4th		10	2	4th	6th	21st
2012/13	Worcester Sharks	AHL		2	0	0	0	2		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Norfolk Admirals	AHL		4th	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Utica Comets	AHL		2	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Gwinnett Gladiators	ECHL		31	1	6th	7th	14th		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Ontario Reign	ECHL		33	1	13	14th	10		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Kalamazoo Wings	ECHL		42	4th	20th	24	20th		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	HC 05 Banská Bystrica	Slovakia		5	2	0	2	0		18th	1	2	3	2
2015/16	Kalamazoo Wings	ECHL		32	6th	14th	20th	18th		5	1	0	1	6th
2016/17	HDD Olimpija Ljubljana	EBEL		50	11	20th	31	18th		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	HDD Olimpija Ljubljana	Slovenia		-	-	-	-	-		7th	2	7th	9	16
2017/18	HC Innsbruck	EBEL		54	4th	11	15th	34		6th	2	2	4th	4th
2018/19	HC Innsbruck	EBEL		39	5	19th	24	38		-	-	-	-	-
EBEL total				143	20th	50	70	90		6th	2	2	4th	4th
ECHL total				196	24	90	114	88		15th	3	4th	7th	27
QMJHL total				65	9	32	41	16		8th	1	1	2	2

( 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

• Sacha Guimond at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gladiator Guimond named defenseman of year. April 2, 2013, accessed September 27, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Gladiators Guimond named to ECHL all-rookie-team. March 26, 2013, accessed September 27, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Pair of Gladiators name to All-ECHL-1st-Team. March 28, 2013, accessed September 27, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Guimond strengthens shark defense. April 1, 2017. Retrieved September 27, 2017 .