The Czech National Women's Ice Hockey Team is the first time since its founding in 1999 that it has appeared in the women's ice hockey tournament at the Winter Olympics. The Czech team has made rapid progress in recent years, and its achievements are obvious to all, and it is the leader of the third group to challenge the second group. For two consecutive years, a substantial challenge was launched against the second group, led by Russia, Finland and Switzerland. In the 2021 World Championships, in the case of a dominant scene, finland was defeated 0-1, which shows its strength.
The main players of the Czech national women's ice hockey team are from the "golden generation" of the 2014 U18 Women's World Championships, where the Czech team won the bronze medal, which is the most glorious achievement in the history of Czech women's ice hockey. In this team, 10 players were finally admitted to the NCAA first-class universities in the United States, and after graduation, they all worked hard in the European League, they won the sixth world championship twice in a row, and won a record 16-1 victory over Poland, 5-1 victory over Hungary, 3-1 victory over Norway in the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Qualifiers, and three wins in three games, winning the ticket to Beijing by absolute advantage.
The head coach of the Czech team is Thomas. Pazina, who was born in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, has been coaching the German League since 1992. He later became a technical coach for the Canadian Hockey Association in Calgary, Canada, followed by 10 seasons as a technical coach at the NHL. In 2011, he moved to the Canadian Youth Professional League WHL as a technical coach. In the 2017-2018 season, he became the head coach of the Calgary Hells of the Canadian Women's Hockey League and was named the best coach of the season, but was killed by the Shenzhen Kunlun Hongxing Vanke Sunshine Ice Hockey Team in the semifinals. Thanks to his outstanding coaching this season, Pazina was favored by the Czech Ice Hockey Association, leading the Czech women's national team to the World Championships in 2021 and finishing seventh, and leading the team to make history in the Winter Olympic qualifiers for the first time in the main event of women's ice hockey at the Winter Olympics.
The goalkeeper of the Czech women's ice hockey team is Clara Peslarova, who started all seven matches at the 2021 World Championships and started twice in three Winter Olympic qualifiers. He won four of the World Championships, with a save rate of 93.3% and an average of 1.17 goals conceded per game. She represented the Golden Generation of Czech women's hockey in 1996 and won the bronze medal at the 2014 Women's U18 Championship. He has since played in the Russian Women's Ice Hockey League (WHL) and the Swedish Women's Ice Hockey League (SDHL). This season in the Swedish Women's Ice Hockey League, the save rate is in the top three.
There are many young players in the Czech team's defender line, only 3 players are post-90s, two of whom belong to the "golden generation" of 1996, and the other 4 players are all post-00s, including one Born in 2004, Tenkova. Among the young defenders, the most famous is the number 2 Anita Terralova. She is currently the backbone of the Czech women's team, and after her outstanding performance at the 2014 U18 World Championships, she not only directly advanced to the national team, but also was favored by the Dynamo St. Petersburg team of the Russian Women's Hockey League WHL, and became the best defender with the most goals and the most points in the entire league in the 2018-2019 season. In the 2021-2022 WHL, it swept up 30 points in 22 games, and contributed 7 assists in 3 games in the Winter Olympic qualifiers, full of offensive firepower.
Among the many musketeers of czech women's ice, the most famous is the Czech ice hockey queen, Shenzhen Kunlun Hongxing Vanke Sunshine ice hockey team main center Alena Mills. Mills represented the Czech national team in the Winter Olympic Qualifiers and World Championships at the age of 15 and scored 2 assists to show his talent. He was then photographed by Brown University in the United States, becoming the first player in the history of Czech women's hockey to enter the NCAA first-class university. And coaching her at Brown University is former Shenzhen Kunlun Hongxing coach Dijet Murphy. After graduating from Brown University, he joined dynamo St. Petersburg in the Russian Women's Hockey League, and then helped Ufa win the WHL championship in 2019. In the 2020-2021 season, she joined Shenzhen Kunlun Hongxing, scoring 9 goals, 13 assists + 23, and helped the Czech Republic to score 5 goals and 2 assists at the 2021 World Championships, and her 71.2% of the competition was named the best contender at the World Championships.
The text and pictures are all from the relevant reports of the International Ice Federation