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Tatyana Shatalova (; born 17 August 1999) is a Belarusian-born Russian
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forward, currently playing with the Belye Medveditsy of the
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(ZhHL). She holds the record for youngest player to play in the
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(PHF; previously known as NWHL, 2015–2021).


Playing career

Shatalova began playing ice hockey at the age of 6. Her parents had initially opposed her decision to start playing, but reversed their opinion after she told them she would start boxing instead. Until she turned 11, she played on the
Yunost Minsk HC Yunost-Minsk ''( Belar. Юнацтва Менск, Junactva Miеnsk)'' is a Belarusian ice hockey team that plays in the Belarusian Extraleague. They play their home games at Chizhovka-Arena, located in Minsk. Yunost is the ten-times champion ...
 youth boys' teams and had to fill out paperwork every year to be allowed to play with boys. At the age of 16, she contacted
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via their website and was offered a try-out. The team directed her to a different team in the Zhenskaya Hockey League,
Biryusa Krasnoyarsk Biryusa Krasnoyarsk () are a Russian ice hockey team in the Zhenskaya Hockey League (ZhHL). They play in Krasnoyarsk, the capital of Krasnoyarsk Krai in Siberia, at the Platinum Arena Krasnoyarsk and use Fakel Ice Palace as a secondary arena. ...
, with whom she would play for four seasons. She scored 7
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in 19 games during her
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season. Across the following three years in the ZhHL, she scored an additional 29 points in 90 games. In 2019, at the age of 19, she left Russia to move to North America and sign a contract with the Metropolitan Riveters of the National Women's Hockey League (NWHL; PHF since 2021), becoming the fourth player from Russia and the first Belarusian-born player to join the league. She put up 12 points in 23 games in her rookie season and was noted for her fast, aggressive and physical style of play, getting 29 penalty minutes and a one-game suspension for fighting. During the season, she worked on overcoming the language barrier with fellow Russian-speaking Riveters rookie Bulbul Kartanbay of Kazakhstan. She scored her first NWHL goal on 28 December 2019, the game-winning goal of the first outdoor NWHL game, the Buffalo Believes Classic, against the
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. She had previously scored a shootout goal earlier in December, the game winner in a match against the Minnesota Whitecaps. She re-signed with the Riveters for the
2020–21 NWHL season The 2020–21 NWHL season was the sixth season of the National Women's Hockey League in North America. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the season was held in a bubble in Lake Placid, New York, from January to February 2021, with all five tea ...
, but ultimately had to opt-out of the COVID-19 bubble.


International career

Shatalova represented Russia in both the 2016 and 2017 IIHF U18 Women's World Championship, earning a bronze medal in 2017. In 2018, she was named to the senior Russian women's roster for the
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as a reserve player, but didn't appear in any games.


Personal life

Shatalova wears #17 after Soviet ice hockey star
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. When asked about the possibility of introducing body checking to women's hockey, she stated, "I think that just like in men’s hockey that women’s hockey has emotions, too. Sometimes you want to use your hands and your body. On the ice, we don’t have to be ‘feminine’ – this is hockey." She played for Russia at the 2018 World Ball Hockey Federation Women's World Championship in
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and Dmitrov, winning gold.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Shatalova, Tatyana 1999 births Living people Ice hockey people from Minsk Russian women's ice hockey forwards Belarusian women's ice hockey players Belye Medveditsy players Metropolitan Riveters players Russian expatriate ice hockey players in the United States Biryusa Krasnoyarsk players