Sergei Viktorovich Gonchar

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Sergei Gonchar
Date of birth April 13, 1974
place of birth Chelyabinsk , Russian SFSR
size 188 cm
Weight 98 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1992 , 1st round, 14th position
Washington Capitals
Career stations
until 1992 HK tractor Chelyabinsk
1992-1994 HK Dynamo Moscow
1994-1997 Washington Capitals
1997 HK Lada Tolyatti
1997-2004 Washington Capitals
2004 Boston Bruins
2004-2005 HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
2005-2010 Pittsburgh Penguins
2010-2013 Ottawa Senators
2012 HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
2013-2014 Dallas Stars
2014-2015 Canadiens de Montréal

Sergei Viktorovich Gonchar ( Russian Сергей Викторович Гончар ; English transcription: Sergei Viktorovich Gonchar ; born April 13, 1974 in Chelyabinsk , Russian SFSR ) is a former Russian ice hockey player and current coach. The defender played over 1,400 games in the National Hockey League , most of them for the Washington Capitals and the Pittsburgh Penguins , with whom he won the 2009 Stanley Cup . With the Russian national team , he won silver and bronze medals at the World Championships and the Olympic Winter Games. He last worked as an assistant trainer for the Penguins from 2017 to 2020.

Career

Gonchar began his career at Metschel Chelyabinsk , for which he ran up in the 1990/91 season in the second-rate Pervaya League . In the course of the season he moved at the age of 16 to local rivals Traktor Chelyabinsk , for whom he completed twelve relegation games in the Vysschaya League . In the following season he came to a total of 31 missions in the top Soviet league before he moved to Dynamo Moscow in the summer of 1992 . During the NHL Entry Draft 1992 Gonchar was selected in the first round in a total of 14th position by the Washington Capitals .

Between 1992 and 1994 he was active for Dynamo in the International Hockey League . During these two years, Gonchar played a more defensive role as a defender and was involved in fist fights from time to time , including with Alexander Selivanov , who was then playing for Spartak Moscow . In 1993 Gonchar won the championship of the International Hockey League with Dynamo, where he was used in all ten playoff games. The following season he reached the playoff final again with Dynamo, in which his team lost 3-2 to HK Lada Tolyatti . After the end of the season in the IHL, Gonchar flew to North America and played two playoff games for the Washington Capitals farm team, the Portland Pirates , in the American Hockey League . With the Pirates he won the Calder Cup at the end of the playoffs .

From the 1994/95 AHL season , Gonchar was part of the Portland Pirates' permanent staff. On February 7, 1995 Gonchar made his debut in the National Hockey League in a game of the Capitals against the Buffalo Sabers . In the 1998/99 season he became the first Russian defender to score more than 20 goals in an NHL season. At the end of the 2000/01 and 2002/03 seasons , Gonchar was appointed to the NHL Second All-Star Team.

Gonchar in the Pittsburgh Penguins jersey

In March 2004, the defender was transferred from the Capitals in exchange for Shaone Morrisonn and two draft picks to the Boston Bruins . This season he scored 58 points more than any other defender. After by a lockout failed 2004/05 season , the Gonchar in his home at Metallurg Magnitogorsk spent, he signed a five-year contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins . With the Penguins, he won the Stanley Cup in 2009 . On July 1, 2010, Gonchar signed a three-year contract with the Ottawa Senators .

Due to the NHL lockout, Gonchar played again for HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk in the Continental Hockey League between September and December 2012 . He then returned to Ottawa and was the team's best passer with 24 assists. In June 2013, the Senators transferred his rights to the Dallas Stars , with whom he soon signed a new two-year contract. The stars gave it to the Canadiens de Montréal in November 2014 and received Travis Moen in return . Gonchar ended the season in Montréal, but his contract was not extended afterwards and he is therefore looking for a new employer as a free agent . In August 2015, he signed a professional tryout contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins , but was not subsequently committed. In October 2015, the Russian announced the end of his active career and switched to the Penguins' coaching staff with immediate effect, where he will henceforth be specifically responsible for training defenders. With 881 points scored in the regular season, he was the highest point Russian defender in NHL history. After the 2019/20 season, the Penguins did not renew the Russian's contract.

International

Gonchar represented his home country both in the junior and senior sector on the international stage.

The defender played for Russia for the first time at the 1992 European Junior Championship . The team won the bronze medal in the end, with Gonchar being one of the best players in the tournament. He was named to the tournament's all-star team and named the tournament's best defender. A year later he ran on at the Junior World Championships in 1993 , where a medal win, however, was missed.

For the senior selection of Sbornaja Gonchar first appeared at the World Cup of Hockey 1996 . Two years later he played in the 1998 Winter Olympics in the Japanese Nagano again for selection after a brief final defeat by the Czech Republic won silver. The defender played his first World Cup in 2000 . At the World Cup in their own country, the ambitious team disappointed immensely and finished in eleventh place. Then Gonchar was on the ice for Russia at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and won the bronze medal. He was also a member of the squad at the World Cup of Hockey 2004 and the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , which Russia finished without winning a medal. It was not until the 2007 World Cup that Gonchar won the bronze medal again, and another silver medal followed at the 2010 World Cup . He also completed his fourth Olympic ice hockey tournament at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver . The Russian's most successful tournament personally was the 2007 World Cup, when he scored one goal in nine games and prepared four more.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1990/91 Metschel Chelyabinsk Pervaya League 2 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1990/91 Chelyabinsk tractor Vysschaya League 11 0 0 0 4th - - - - -
1991/92 Chelyabinsk tractor Vysschaya League 31 1 0 1 6th - - - - -
1992/93 Dynamo Moscow MHL 31 1 3 4th 70 10 0 0 0 12
1993/94 Dynamo Moscow MHL 44 4th 5 9 36 10 0 3 3 14th
1993/94 Portland Pirates AHL - - - - - 2 0 0 0 0
1994/95 Portland Pirates AHL 61 10 32 42 67 - - - - -
1994/95 Washington Capitals NHL 31 2 5 7th 22nd 7th 2 2 4th 2
1995/96 Washington Capitals NHL 78 15th 26th 41 60 6th 2 4th 6th 4th
1996/97 Washington Capitals NHL 57 13 17th 30th 36 - - - - -
1997/98 HK Lada Tolyatti Super league 7th 3 2 5 4th - - - - -
1997/98 Washington Capitals NHL 72 5 16 21st 66 21st 7th 4th 11 30th
1998/99 Washington Capitals NHL 53 21st 10 31 57 - - - - -
1999/00 Washington Capitals NHL 73 18th 36 54 52 5 1 0 1 6th
2000/01 Washington Capitals NHL 76 19th 38 57 70 6th 1 3 4th 2
2001/02 Washington Capitals NHL 76 26th 33 59 58 - - - - -
2002/03 Washington Capitals NHL 82 18th 49 67 52 6th 0 5 5 4th
2003/04 Washington Capitals NHL 56 7th 42 49 44 - - - - -
2003/04 Boston Bruins NHL 15th 4th 5 9 12 7th 1 4th 5 4th
2004/05 HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk Super league 40 2 17th 19th 57 4th 1 1 2 6th
2005/06 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 75 12 46 58 100 - - - - -
2006/07 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 82 13 54 67 72 5 1 3 4th 2
2007/08 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 78 12 53 65 66 20th 1 13 14th 8th
2008/09 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 25th 6th 13 19th 26th 22nd 3 11 14th 12
2009/10 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 62 11 39 50 49 13 2 10 12 4th
2010/11 Ottawa Senators NHL 67 7th 20th 27 20th - - - - -
2011/12 Ottawa Senators NHL 74 5 32 37 55 7th 1 3 4th 6th
2012/13 HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk KHL 37 3 26th 29 40 - - - - -
2012/13 Ottawa Senators NHL 45 3 24 27 26th 10 0 6th 6th 14th
2013/14 Dallas Stars NHL 76 2 20th 22nd 20th 6th 0 0 0 4th
2014/15 Dallas Stars NHL 3 0 1 1 2 - - - - -
2014/15 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 45 1 12 13 16 - - - - -
MHL total 75 5 8th 13 106 20th 0 3 3 26th
Super league overall 47 5 19th 24 61 4th 1 1 2 6th
AHL total 61 10 32 42 67 - - - - -
NHL overall 1301 220 591 811 981 141 22nd 68 90 102

International

Represented Russia in:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1992 Russia U18 European Championship 3rd place, bronze 6th 1 4th 5 8th
1993 Russia U20 World Cup 6th place 7th 0 2 2 10
1996 Russia World cup 4th Place 4th 2 2 4th 2
1998 Russia Olympia 2nd place, silver 6th 0 2 2 0
2000 Russia WM 11th place 6th 1 0 1 2
2002 Russia Olympia 3rd place, bronze 6th 0 0 0 2
2004 Russia World cup 6th place 4th 1 2 3 6th
2006 Russia Olympia 4th Place 8th 0 2 2 8th
2007 Russia WM 3rd place, bronze 9 1 4th 5 4th
2010 Russia Olympia 6th place 4th 1 0 1 2
2010 Russia WM 2nd place, silver 5 0 4th 4th 0
Juniors overall 13 1 6th 7th 18th
Men overall 52 6th 16 22nd 26th

( 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

Commons : Sergei Gonchar  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ legendsofhockey.net, Sergei Gonchar. Retrieved May 30, 2011 .
  2. ↑ espn.com, Gonchar signs five-year, $ 25M deal. Retrieved May 30, 2011 .
  3. ↑ tsn.ca, Gonchar Signs Three-Year Contract With Senators. Retrieved May 30, 2011 .
  4. ↑ nhl.com, Stars sign defenceman Sergei Gonchar to 2-year, $ 10-million contract. June 10, 2013, accessed June 11, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Sergei Gonchar Named Penguins' Defensemen Development Coach. penguins.nhl.com, October 27, 2015, accessed October 27, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Gonchar, Sergei Viktorovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gonchar, Sergei (English spelling); Гончар, Сергей Викторович (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Chelyabinsk