Connecticut Whale 🐋 feat. Kateřina Mrázová & Lenka Sedrar 🇨🇿 + Janka Hlinka 🇸🇰 womens hockey 🏒♀️⛸️

Kateřina Mrázová (born 19 October 1992) is a Czech ice hockey forward and member of the Czech national team, currently playing in the Premier Hockey Federation (PHF) with the Connecticut Whale.[1] Known for her stickhandling skill, she was the first European player to win the Clarkson Cup, winning the championship with the Boston Blades in 2013, and the first Czech player to score a goal in the National Women's Hockey League (NWHL; renamed PHF in 2021)er first season in the Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL) was in 2012-13. She play with the Boston Blades under the direction of head coach Digit Murphy and was used as a defensive forward. She contributed to the Blades' first regular season title and helped them secure the 2013 Clarkson Cup. She was the first European to win the coveted trophy.
After her rookie CWHL season, she left the league to play college ice hockey with the Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs women's ice hockey program in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) conference of the NCAA Division I. She stayed with the program for five seasons, though a knee injury kept her from playing for the entire 2015-16 season. Across 117 games, she scored 75 points and was named to the 2016-17 WCHA All-Academic Team.[4]
On 11 July 2018, Mrázová returned to professional hockey, and signed a contract with the Connecticut Whale of the NWHL.[5] Along with Denisa Křížová, she was one of the first two Czech players to play in the NWHL, and became the first Czech player to pick up a point. She logged 12 points in 15 games in the 2018-19 season with the Whale. On 20 October 2018, she scored the Whale's first power-play goal since mid-February 2018.She played one year in the NWHL before returning to Europe to sign with Brynäs IF of the SDHL. She scored 51 points in 34 games in her debut SDHL season, the fourth leading scorer in the league and top of the league in assists, and added another 10 points in 5 playoff games as Brynäs were defeated by Luleå HF/MSSK in the semi-finals.
International: She represented Czechia at three IIHF U18 Women’s World Championships, being named an assistant captain in the 2010 tournament where the country finished in seventh.
Mrázová competed with the Czech Republic at the 2013 IIHF Women’s World Championships. The tournament marked the first time that the Czech Republic competed at the Top Division level. Although the Czechs lost to Sweden in the relegation round, Mrázová accumulated 2 points on 2 assists during the tournament. She has competed in three Olympic qualification tournaments with Czechia, getting two points in three games in 2009 and scoring one goal in three games in 2013, the country failing to qualify both times. She notched three points in three games for Czechia's 2017 Olympic qualification run, the country ultimately failing to qualify for the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Lenka Slezak Serdar (born 21 July 1997) is a Czech-American ice hockey player and member of the Czech national team, currently signed with the Connecticut Whale of the Premier Hockey Federation (PHF) for the 2022-23 season.
Serdar represented the Czech Republic at the 2021 IIHF Women's World Championship and in the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
Serdar grew up playing ice hockey in and around her home town of Lexington, Massachusetts in the Greater Boston area. During the 2013-14 season, she began playing in the Junior Women's Hockey League (JWHL) with the North American Hockey Academy (NAHA) major junior team, called NAHA White, based in Wellesley, Massachusetts. In her senior year of high school, she relocated to the North American Hockey Academy academic campus in Stowe, Vermont and served as alternate captain to NAHA White.[3] She led the team in scoring during the 2014-15 season, with 11 goals and 27 points in 28 games, and was selected to participate in the JWHL All Star game.[4]
NCAA
Her college ice hockey career was played with the Cornell Big Red women's ice hockey program in the ECAC Hockey and Ivy League conferences of the NCAA Division I. As a rookie in the 2015-16 season, Serdar notched 1 goal and 7 points in 31 games, ranking fourth of all Big Red freshman in points. The following season, 2016-17, she earned a reputation as a reliable two-way forward, ranking eighth on the team for points, with 13 (3+10), second of all team forwards for blocked shots, with 33, and accumulating the second-highest face-off win percentage, at .535. She earned praise from Cornell head coach Doug Derraugh for her versatility, focus, and skill set.