Natálie Mlýnková (born 24 May 2001) is a Czech

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player for

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of the

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and a member of the

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Playing career

College

Mlýnková played

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for

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. During the 2023–24 season, she led

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in points, and recorded 26 points on a league-best 15 goals and 11 assists in 27 conference games. Following the season she was awarded the 2024 Cammi Granato Award as Hockey East Player of the Year. She became the second Catamount player to lead Hockey East in points. She transferred to Minnesota for her graduate year for the 2024–25 season.

Professional

On 24 June 2025, Mlýnková was drafted in the second round, 12th overall, by the

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in the

2025 PWHL Draft The 2025 PWHL Draft was the third annual draft in Professional Women's Hockey League history, and took place on June 24, 2025, at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Kristýna Kaltounková was selected first overall by th ...

International play

Mlýnková represented the Czech national under-18 team at the

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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 ...

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

, and

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 ...

, and won a silver medal with the Czech national under-16 team in the girls' ice hockey tournament at the

2016 Winter Youth Olympics The 2016 Winter Youth Olympics (; ), officially known as the II Winter Youth Olympic Games, took place in and around Lillehammer, Norway, from 12 to 21 February 2016. They were the fourth Youth Olympic Games and the second winter edition. Lilleha ...

. She represented the

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at the

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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 ...

and

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 ...

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

Awards and honours

References

External links

* * 2001 births Living people Czech expatriate ice hockey players in Canada Czech expatriate ice hockey players in the United States Czech women's ice hockey forwards Ice hockey players at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics Ice hockey players at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic ice hockey players for the Czech Republic Ice hockey people from Zlín Vermont Catamounts women's ice hockey players {{CzechRepublic-icehockey-player-stub