Lenka Čurmová (born 8 April 1997) is a Slovak
ice hockey
Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice hock ...
defender and member of the
Slovak national team, currently playing in the
Premier Hockey Federation
The Premier Hockey Federation (PHF), formerly the National Women's Hockey League (NWHL), is a women's professional ice hockey league located in the United States and Canada. The league was established in 2015 with four league-owned teams and ha ...
(PHF) with the
Metropolitan Riveters. She and national team teammate
Iveta Klimášová
Iveta Klimášová (born 14 January 1998) is a Slovak ice hockey player, playing in the Finnish Naisten Liiga (NSML) with HPK Kiekkonaiset. She was a member of the Slovak national ice hockey team during the 2010s.
Klimášová and national tea ...
were the first Slovak players to play in the PHF.
Playing career
Čurmová began her career at age twelve, debuting with
ŽHK Šarišanka Prešov in the 2009–10 season of the
1.liga žien, Slovakia’s top-tier women’s league. She played with Šarišanka for six seasons, before transferring to
HC Å KP Bratislava of the
Elite Women's Hockey League
The European Women's Hockey League, abbreviated EWHL, is an international ice hockey league. Created as the Elite Women's Hockey League in 2004 by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), the EWHL comprises clubs from several countries in ...
(EWHL). She remained with Å KP Bratislava until her relocation to North America in 2019 in order to play with the Buffalo Beauts of the National Women's Hockey League (NWHL; renamed PHF in 2021).
The Beauts‘ first game of the
2019–20 season, 5 October 2019 against the
Connecticut Whale, was history making; Čurmová became the first Slovak player to ever score a goal in NWHL history when she netted the Beauts‘ opening goal, assisted by
MJ Pelletier and
Corinne Buie. Later that week, she was the first Slovak player to be named NWHL Player of the Week. She was selected by Team Packer for the
2020 NWHL All-Star Game. In May 2020, she re-signed with the team for the
2020–21 season.
International play
Čurmová first played with the
Slovak national under-18 team at the qualification tournament and final tournament of the
2013 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship – Division I
The 2013 World Women's U18 Championship Division I final tournament was played in Romanshorn, Switzerland, from 2 to 8 January 2013. Japan won the tournament and after two years in Division I they returned to the Top Division.
Qualification tour ...
. She went on to play with the team at the
2014 World Women's U18 Championship DI, where she was the highest scoring defenceman, and at the
2014 World Women's U18 Championship DI, where she was the Best Defenceman of the tournament as selected by the directorate.
Čurmová made her first appearance with the senior Slovak national team at age fifteen, playing all five games of the
2013 IIHF Women's World Championship Division I
The Division I Group A tournament was held at DNB Arena in Stavanger, Norway, from 7 to 13 April 2013. The Division I Group B was contested from 8 to 14 April 2013 at Patinoire Iceberg in Strasbourg, France. The winners of the Division I Group A ...
. She has continued to appear internationally with the senior team, including in the qualification tournaments for the 2018 Winter Olympics and 2022 Winter Olympics, and served as team captain during the 2018–19 season.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
International
References
External links
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1997 births
Living people
People from Michalovce
Ice hockey people from the Košice Region
Slovak women's ice hockey defencemen
Buffalo Beauts players
HPK Kiekkonaiset players
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Slovak expatriate ice hockey players in Finland
Slovak expatriate ice hockey players in the United States
European Women's Hockey League players
Slovak expatriate ice hockey players in Sweden