Klára Peslarová

Klára Peslarová
Born (1996-11-23) 23 November 1996 (age 28)
Ostrava, Czech Republic
Height 164 cm (5 ft 5 in)
Weight 63 kg (139 lb; 9 st 13 lb)
Position Goaltender
Catches Left
PWHL team
Former teams		 Boston Fleet
Brynäs IF
MoDo Hockey
HC Poruba B
SK Karviná
SDE Hockey
Biryusa Krasnoyarsk
National team  Czech Republic
Playing career 2011–present
Medal record
World Championship
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Denmark

Klára Peslarová (born 23 November 1996) is a Czech professional ice hockey goaltender for the Boston Fleet of the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL). She previously played for Brynäs IF Dam and Modo Hockey of the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL). She is also a member of the Czech Republic women's national ice hockey team.[1]

Playing career

Peslarová developed in the minor ice hockey department of HC RT Torax Poruba in her home city of Ostrava, in the eastern Czech Republic. By age 14, she was playing with the HC Poruba men's under-16 (U16) team in the Junior Youth Extraliga (Czech: Extraliga mladšího dorostu, ELMD) and she first played with the HC Poruba men's under-18 (U18) team in the Senior Youth Extraliga (Czech: Extraliga staršího dorostu, ELSD) at age 15.

She made her senior league debut with SK Karviná of the Women's 1st Hockey League (Czech: 1. liga ženského hokeje, shortened to 1. liga žen), the top women's league in the Czech Republic, in the 2011–12 season. She continued to divide her playing time between the HC Poruba men's junior teams and the SK Karviná women's team during the 2012–13 and 2013–14 seasons, never playing more than 20 games in any league per season.

As her 18th birthday approached and she would no longer be eligible to play in Czech men's junior leagues, Peslarová looked abroad to further her development. For the 2014–15 season, she relocated to the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk to sign with Biryusa Krasnoyarsk of the Russian Women's Hockey League (RWHL; replaced by the Zhenskaya Hockey League in 2015). Another relocation preceded the 2015–16 season, with Peslarová settling in Stockholm to join SDE Hockey of the Riksserien (renamed SDHL in 2016), as the team's starting goaltender.

After two seasons with SDE, Peslarová signed for the 2017–18 season with the men's representative B-team of HC Poruba in the Czech Regional Hockey Championship (Czech: Krajské hokejové přebory, abbreviated to Krajský přebor), the fourth-tier men's ice hockey league in the Czech Republic. During the season, she became the first woman to post a shutout in a Czech men's league, denying all thirteen shots on goal during a match against HK Nový Jičín.[2] In addition to playing with HC Poruba B, she also returned to SK Karviná of the renamed Czech Women's Extraliga (Czech: Extraliga ženského hokeje) for the 2017–18 season.

After one season in the Czech Republic, Peslarová returned to Sweden to sign with her second SDHL club, MoDo Hockey in Örnsköldsvik.[3][4]

International play

Peslarová was the starting goaltender for the Czech national under-18 team in the 2013 and 2014 IIHF Women's World U18 Champhionships. She was named Best Goaltender by the directorate at the 2014 tournament, as she backstopped the Czech team to the second bronze medal in team history.[5]

She represented the Czech Republic at the IIHF Women's World Championship in 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021, and 2022; and at the Division 1 Group A tournaments in 2014 and 2015.[6][7] Following the 2022 tournament, she was named to the Media All-Star team.[8]

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

    Regular season   Playoffs/Relegation
Season Team League GP W L Min GA SO SV% GAA GP W L Min GA SO SV% GAA
2011-12 HC Poruba U16 ELMD 20 7 13 1086 70 0 .889 3.87 – – – – – – – –
2011-12 HC Poruba U18 ELSD 1 6.00 – – – – – – – –
2011-12 SK Karviná Liga žen 10 8 2 600 21 3 .883 2.10 2 0 2 64 23 0 .574 22.26
2012-13 HC Poruba U16 ELMD 20 4 16 1051 69 3 .902 3.94 – – – – – – – –
2012-13 HC Poruba U18 ELSD 1 2.00 – – – – – – – –
2012-13 SK Karviná Liga žen 2 1 1 120 5 0 .884 2.50 4 4 0 240 5 1 .942 1.25
2013-14 HC Poruba U18 ELSD 12 0 12 458 39 0 .883 5.11 – – – – – – – –
2013-14 SK Karviná Liga žen 3 3 0 120 4 0 .852 2.00 3 3 0 180 5 1 .821 1.67
2014-15 Biryusa Krasnoyarsk RWHL
2015-16 SDE HF Riksserien 27 1 25 1538 92 1 .904 3.59 8 8 0 485 13 1 .926 1.16
2016-17 SDE HF SDHL 21 3 17 1218 59 2 .926 2.91 5 4 1 304 10 0 .918 1.97
2017-18 HC Poruba B Krajský přebor 6 1 – – – – – – – –
2017-18 SK Karviná Extraliga žen 9 6 3 494 14 2 .924 1.70 1 0 1 65 3 0 .927 2.77
2018-19 MODO SDHL 24 17 7 1455 60 2 .925 2.48 5 2 3 295 14 0 .901 2.85
2019-20 MODO SDHL 24 8 16 1401 70 2 .908 3.00 2 2 0 120 0 2 0.00 1.00
2020-21 MODO SDHL 27 15 12 1623 59 4 .929 2.18 2 0 2 128 8 0 .887 3.78
2021-22 MoDo SDHL 147 16 7 1443 54 1 .924 2.25 3 1 2 227 6 0 .943 1.59
SDHL totals 123 60 84 8675 394 12 .919 2.73 25 17 8 1558 51 3 .920 1.96

Sources:[9][10][11]

International

Year Team Event Result GP W L MIN GA SO GAA SV%
2013 Czech Republic U18 WW18 4th 5 1 3 208:26 18 0 5.18 .880
2014 Czech Republic U18 WW18 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 6 3 2 345:00 9 2 1.57 .951
2014 Czech Republic WW D1 1st 4 4 0 240:00 2 2 0.50 .975
2015 Czech Republic WW D1 1st 4 4 0 240:00 2 2 0.50 .954
2016 Czech Republic WW 6th 5 1 3 304:48 14 0 2.76 .905
2017 Czech Republic OGQ DNQ 3 2 1 178:41 6 1 2.01 .891
2017 Czech Republic WW 8th 5 1 4 305:58 12 0 2.35 .897
2019 Czech Republic WW 6th 4 3 1 240:00 8 0 2.00 .918
2021 Czech Republic WW 7th 6 4 2 358:14 8 2 1.17 .933
2021 Czech Republic OGQ Q 3 2 0 120:00 2 0 1.00 .910
2022 Czech Republic OG 7th 5 2 3 262:03 7 0 1.60 .945
Junior totals 11 4 5 553:26 27 2 2.93 .919
Senior totals 39 23 14 2249:04 61 7 – –

Sources:[9][10][12][13][14][15]

References

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  2. ^ Voltr, Martin (20 January 2018). "Klára Peslarová jako první žena vychytala nulu v mužské soutěži". Czech Ice Hockey Association (in Czech). Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  3. ^ Jervis, Adrian (17 February 2020). "Klara Peslarova (MODO) - we trust in each other". A Brit on Thin Ice. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  4. ^ Rönnkvist, Ronnie (19 September 2019). "De är ligans bästa målvakter". HockeySverige (in Swedish). Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  5. ^ Oliver, Nathaniel (5 October 2017). "A Female Hašek: Klára Peslarová, Team Czech Republic Goalie". The Hockey Writers. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  6. ^ 2016 World Championship roster
  7. ^ Murphy, Mike (12 April 2019). "2019 Worlds: Group B's goaltenders were amazing". The Ice Garden. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  8. ^ Montroy, Liz. "Heise named MVP". IIHF. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
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  11. ^ "Klara Peslarova profile". EuroHockey.com. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
  12. ^ Podnieks, Andrew; Nordmark, Birger, eds. (2019). IIHF Guide & Record Book 2020. Toronto: Moydart. p. 669. ISBN 978-0-9867964-7-0.
  13. ^ "2021 IIHF Ice Hockey Women's World Championship – Player Statistics by Team: CZE - Czech Republic". IIHF. 29 August 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
  14. ^ "2022 Olympic Women's Ice Hockey Final Qualification Group C – Player Statistics by Team: CZE - Czech Republic". IIHF. 14 November 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
  15. ^ "Beijing 2022 – Ice Hockey, Women – Goalkeepers". IIHF. 17 February 2022. Retrieved 31 July 2022.