Iveta Klimášová (born 14 January 1998) is a Slovak

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. Tw ...

player, playing in the

Swedish Women's Hockey League The Swedish Women's Hockey League (), abbreviated SDHL, is the elite league for women's ice hockey in Sweden. It was established in 2007 as the by the Swedish Ice Hockey Association and was renamed prior to the 2016–17 season. The league has ...

(SDHL) with

AIK Hockey Allmänna Idrottsklubben Ishockeyförening (abbreviated ''AIK IF'', also known as ''AIK Hockey'', often abbreviated ''AIK'' in hockey subjects), is the ice hockey department of sports club AIK based in Stockholm, Sweden. Since 2014, AIK's men's ...

. She was a member of the

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during the 2010s. Klimášová and national team teammate Lenka Čurmová were the first Slovak players to play in the North American

Premier Hockey Federation The Premier Hockey Federation (PHF) was a women's professional ice hockey league in the United States and Canada that operated from March 2015 until June 2023. The league was established in 2015 as the National Women's Hockey League (NWHL), com ...

(PHF; called NWHL until 2021). She wears the number 8 as an homage to

Alexander Ovechkin Alexander Mikhailovich Ovechkin (, ; born 17September 1985) is a Russian professional ice hockey Winger (ice hockey), left winger and Captain (ice hockey), captain of the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League (NHL). Nicknamed "the ...

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* 1998 births Living people AIK Hockey Dam players Buffalo Beauts players European Women's Hockey League players Slovak expatriate ice hockey players in Hungary HPK Kiekkonaiset players Ice hockey people from the Košice Region MAC Budapest (women) players People from Gelnica Slovak expatriate ice hockey players in Sweden Slovak women's ice hockey forwards {{Slovakia-icehockey-bio-stub