Michaela "Míša" Pejzlová (born 6 April 1997) is a Czech

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player and member of the Czech national team. She is signed with the Hockey Club Ambrì-Piotta Girls (HCAP Girls) of the Swiss

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(SWHL A) for the 2024–25 season. Her

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career was played with the

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, with whom she twice won the

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Playing career

Pejzlová started her career playing with

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of the

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before joining the Czech U18 national team, and later the Czech senior national team. She attended

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, Canada during her final years of

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and played two seasons with the Stanstead Spartans girls' ice hockey team.

College

Freshman year

Pejzlová joined a talented Clarkson team that had won the National Championship three years previous and made the NCAA Tournament four straight seasons. She quickly established herself as a key contributor, splitting time between the top two lines. She scored in her first career game against Penn State on 9 September 2016 at 6:01 of the second period. Pejzlová recorded 11 goals and 21 assists as the team's highest-scoring rookie en route to Clarkson's second National Championship.

2016–17 Awards
: ECAC Rookie of the Week (twice) : ECAC Rookie of the Month (October, November) : ECAC Weekly Honor Roll (Five Times) :

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All-Tournament Team

Sophomore year

Pejzlová played the majority of the 2017–18 season centering

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and

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on Clarkson's top line as well as centering the pair on the top power play unit. Pejzlová put up 26 goals and 29 assists and had a 15-game point streak during the regular season. With the top line leading the way, Clarkson won its second straight National Championship.

2017–2018 Awards
: ECAC Weekly Honor Roll (twice)

International play

Pejzlová represented the Czech Republic at the

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2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...

, and

2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ...

, and at the Division I Group A tournament in

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

Awards and honors

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Pejzlová, Michaela 1997 births Living people Clarkson Golden Knights women's ice hockey players Czech expatriate ice hockey players in Switzerland Czech women's ice hockey forwards HIFK Naiset players Ice hockey people from Pardubice Ice hockey players at the 2022 Winter Olympics Naisten Liiga All-Stars Olympic ice hockey players for the Czech Republic Stanstead College alumni Swiss Women's League players