Lenka Čurmová
Lenka Čurmová (born 8 April 1997) is a Slovak ice hockey defender and member of the Slovak national team, currently playing in the Premier Hockey Federation (PHF) with the Metropolitan Riveters. She and national team teammate Iveta Klimášová were the first Slovak players to play in the PHF.[1]
| Lenka Čurmová | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Born |
April 8, 1997 Michalovce, Košice, Slovakia | ||
| Height | 173 cm (5 ft 8 in) | ||
| Weight | 60 kg (132 lb; 9 st 6 lb) | ||
| Position | Defense | ||
| Shoots | Left | ||
| PHF team Former teams |
Metropolitan Riveters Buffalo Beauts HPK Hämeenlinna SKP Bratislava ŽHK Šarišanka Prešov | ||
| National team |
 Slovakia | ||
| Playing career | 2009–present | ||
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 SKP Bratislava of the European Women's Hockey League (EWHL). She remained with SKP 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).[2]
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.[3] She was selected by Team Packer for the 2020 NWHL All-Star Game.[4] In May 2020, she re-signed with the team for the 2020–21 season.[5][6]
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. 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. She has continued to appear internationally with the senior team, including in the qualification games for the 2018 Winter Olympics, and served as team captain during the 2018–19 season.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
| Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||
| 2009–10 | ŽHK Šarišanka Prešov | 1.liga žien | 15 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 16 | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| 2010–11 | ŽHK Šarišanka Prešov | 1.liga žien | 13 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 | ||
| 2011–12 | ŽHK Šarišanka Prešov | 1.liga žien | 12 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | ||
| 2012–13 | ŽHK Šarišanka Prešov | 1.liga žien | 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | ||
| 2013–14 | ŽHK Šarišanka Prešov | 1.liga žien | 14 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | ||
| 2014-15 | ŽHK Šarišanka Prešov | 1.liga žien | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
| 2014-15 | ŠKP Bratislava | EWHL | 19 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 12 | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| 2015-16 | ŽHK Šarišanka Prešov | 1.liga žien | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
| 2015-16 | ŠKP Bratislava | EWHL | 13 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| 2016-17 | ŠKP Bratislava | EWHL | 11 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 8 | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| 2017-18 | ŠKP Bratislava | EWHL | 13 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 8 | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| 2017-18 | ŠKP Bratislava | 1.liga žien | 13 | 4 | 11 | 15 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 6 | ||
| 2019–20 | Buffalo Beauts | NWHL | 23 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2020–21 | HPK Hämeenlinna | Naisten Liiga | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2020–21 | Buffalo Beauts | NWHL | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 10 | |||||||
| 1.liga žien totals | 77 | 5 | 28 | 33 | 60 | 43 | 5 | 20 | 25 | 34 | ||||
| EWHL totals | 56 | 1 | 21 | 22 | 30 | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
| NWHL totals | 23 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 38 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
International
| Year | Team | Event | Div. | Result | Rank | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Slovakia | WW18 | 1 | 5th | 11th | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 2013 | Slovakia | WW | 1A | 3rd | 11th | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2014 | Slovakia | WW18 | 1 | 5th | 13th | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | |
| 2015 | Slovakia | WW18 | 1 | 3rd | 11th | 5 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 8 | |
| 2015 | Slovakia | WW | 1B | 1st | 15th | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2016 | Slovakia | WW | 1A | 6th | 14th | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | |
| 2018 | Slovakia | WW | 1A | 6th | 15th | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |
| 2019 | Slovakia | WW | 1A | 5th | 15th | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
| Junior totals | 15 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 14 | ||||||
| Senior totals | 25 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 14 | ||||||
References
- Callari, Jenna (3 March 2020). "Beauts duo enjoying journey from Slovakia to Buffalo". WKBW Buffalo. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - Prosnan, Martin (29 May 2020). "Američan nevidí prekážky. A nevie, že Chára je Slovák" (in Slovak). Pravda. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - Oliver, Nathaniel (11 October 2019). "Buffalo Beauts D Lenka Čurmová Is Making History". The Hockey Writers. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - Strollo, Leighann (7 February 2020). "2020 NWHL All-Star Weekend Preview". The Ice Garden. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
- Rice, Dan (28 May 2020). "Buffalo Beauts: Lenka Čurmová and Cassidy MacPherson Re-Signed". The Hockey Writers. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - "V zámorí sa z nej stala vítaná posila: Buffalo ju nechce pustiť, na stole má novú zmluvu". Športky.sk (in Slovak). 28 May 2020. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
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External links
- Biographical information and career statistics from Eliteprospects.com, or Eurohockey.com