Travis Roche

Travis Roche
Date of birth	June 17, 1978
place of birth	Grande Cache , Alberta , Canada
size	185 cm
Weight	91 kg
position	defender
number	# 77
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
1996-1998	Trail Smoke Eaters
1998-2001	University of North Dakota
2001-2004	Houston Eros
2004-2006	Chicago Wolves
2006-2008	Phoenix Coyotes San Antonio Rampage
2008-2014	SC Bern
2014-2015	MODO hockey
2016	EHC Linz

Travis Roche (born June 17, 1978 in Grande Cache , Alberta ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who was last under contract with the EHC Linz in the EBEL .

Career

North America (1996-2008)

Roche was initially active for the Trail Smoke Eaters in the British Columbia Hockey League , a lower-class Canadian junior league, before the defender went on the ice for the University of North Dakota ice hockey team , for which the Canadian played three seasons, from the 1998/99 season . In April 2001 he signed a contract with the Minnesota Wild from the National Hockey League as a free agent . Most of the contract, however, he completed for the farm team Houston Eros in the American Hockey League , where he received the Yanick Dupré Memorial Award in the 2001/02 season and won the Calder Cup with the team a year later .

In 2004 he was signed by the NHL team Atlanta Thrashers , but again played most of the time in their farm team with the Chicago Wolves . In the summer of 2006 Roche signed with the Phoenix Coyotes , where he posted his first goal in the NHL on December 16 of the same year. He finished the season with 19 scorer points from 50 season games in the top division of North America, but spent the following year exclusively with the farm team San Antonio Rampage , marking 41 scorer points in 71 games.

Europe (since 2008)

For the 2008/09 season moved Roche to Europe and the closed SC Bern of the Swiss National League A in. With Bern he won the Swiss championship in his second season and was the defender with the highest points in the league in the following season with eight goals and 22 assists. In the 2012/13 season , the defensive player had a significant share in his team's renewed title win with 15 points from 19 play-off games and the decisive goal in the final series against Friborg-Gottéron . After six years in Bern, the Canadian moved to MODO Hockey in the Svenska Hockeyligan in August 2014 , where he did not receive a new contract after the 2014/15 season . In February 2016 he was signed by the EHC Linz from the EBEL for the rest of the 2015/16 season .

Achievements and Awards

1997 BCHL Second All-Star Team 1997 BCHL Rookie of the Year Award 1997 BCHL Playoff MVP Award 1998 BCHL First All-Star Team 1998 BCHL Best Defenseman Award 2000 WCHA All-Rookie Team 2000 Broadmoor Trophy win with the University of North Dakota 2000 NCAA Division I Championship with the University of North Dakota 2001 WCHA First All-Star Team 2001 NCAA West First All-American Team

2001 NCAA Championship All-Tournament Team 2002 Yanick Dupré Memorial Award 2003 Calder Cup win with the Houston Eros 2005 AHL All-Star Classic 2005 AHL First All-Star Team 2010 Swiss champion with SC Bern 2010 All-Star-Team of the Spengler Cup 2012 Spengler Cup win with Team Canada 2013 Swiss champion with SC Bern

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1996/97	Trail Smoke Eaters	BCHL		49	17th	40	57	159		-	-	-	-	-
1997/98	Trail Smoke Eaters	BCHL		38	11	31	42	104		11	0	8th	8th	21st
1998/99	University of North Dakota	WCHA		not played
1999/00	University of North Dakota	WCHA		42	6th	22nd	28	60
2000/01	University of North Dakota	WCHA		42	11	38	49	42
2000/01	Minnesota Wild	NHL		1	0	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-
2001/02	Minnesota Wild	NHL		4th	0	0	0	2	-	-	-	-	-
2001/02	Houston Eros	AHL		60	13	21st	34	107	12	2	3	5	6th
2002/03	Houston Eros	AHL		65	14th	34	48	42	23	3	5	8th	26th
2003/04	Minnesota Wild	NHL		5	0	1	1	0	-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	Houston Eros	AHL		60	8th	30th	38	18th	2	0	0	0	2
2004/05	Chicago Wolves	AHL		73	12	38	50	59	18th	1	6th	7th	18th
2005/06	Chicago Wolves	AHL		59	8th	31	39	73	-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Phoenix Coyotes	NHL		50	6th	13	19th	22nd	-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	San Antonio Rampage	AHL		17th	1	8th	9	16	-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	San Antonio Rampage	AHL		71	6th	35	41	65	5	0	2	2	8th
2008/09	SC Bern	NLA		49	16	32	48	120	4th	0	3	3	6th
2009/10	SC Bern	NLA		47	8th	22nd	30th	50	15th	2	8th	10	28
2010/11	SC Bern	NLA		39	9	32	41	16	9	0	2	2	6th
2011/12	SC Bern	NLA		25th	2	13	15th	8th
BCHL total				87	28	71	99	263	11	0	8th	8th	21st
WCHA overall				84	17th	60	77	102
NHL overall				60	6th	14th	20th	24	-	-	-	-	-
AHL total				405	62	197	259	380	60	6th	16	22nd	60
NLA total				160	35	99	134	194	28	2	13	15th	40

( 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

• Travis Roche at legendsofhockey.net (English)