Regina Metzler
Regina Metzler | |||
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Born |
Budapest, Hungary | 25 October 2005||
Height | 178 cm (5 ft 10 in) | ||
Weight | 73 kg (161 lb; 11 st 7 lb) | ||
Position | Forward | ||
Shoots | Left | ||
NCAA D1 team Former teams |
Mercyhurst Lakers KMH Budapest | ||
National team | Hungary | ||
Playing career | 2018–present |
Regina Metzler (born 25 October 2005) is a Hungarian ice hockey player and member of the Hungarian national team. She plays college ice hockey with the Mercyhurst Lakers women's ice hockey program in the Atlantic Hockey America (AHA) conference of the NCAA Division I.
Playing career
[edit]Metzler began her senior league career in the Women's Ice Hockey Bundesliga (DEBL) during the 2018–19 season with KMH Budapest II, the women's development team of KMH Budapest. She made her European Women's Hockey League (EWHL) debut with the women's representative team of KMH Budapest during the playoffs of the 2020–21 season and played part of the 2021–22 season with the team. Concurrent to her women's senior league career, she also played with Hungarian men's junior teams, including in the U.-16 I. Csoport with the U16 men's team of Vasas SC.[1] During the 2021–22 season, she spent a month with the Hockey Training Institute (HTI) Stars women's under-20 team, based in Mulmur, Ontario, Canada.[2]
International play
[edit]At the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics, Metzler won a bronze medal in the girls' 3x3 mixed tournament with Team Blue Crystals, an international team of thirteen under-16 players that included Sidre Özer, who became the first Turkish ice hockey player to ever win an Olympic medal at the event.[3][4]
With the Hungarian national under-18 team, she participated in the Division I Group A tournaments of the IIHF U18 Women's World Championship in 2020 and 2022.[5] Aged fourteen years and two months, she was the youngest Hungarian player at the 2020 tournament and tied Petra Szamosfalvi for third in team scoring with 1 goal and 1 assist. The 2022 tournament was a breakout for Metzler, who led all tournament skaters in goals scored, with 5 goals in three games played, and recorded the tournament’s best face-off percentage, at 75.41%.[6][7][8] In recognition of her exemplary play in the 2022 tournament, she was selected as the Best Player of the Hungarian team by the coaches.[9]
She served as captain of the Hungarian team in the girls' ice hockey tournament at the 2022 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival in Kainuu, Finland during March 2022.
Metzler represented Hungary at the IIHF Women's World Championship in 2021 and 2022.[10] Though she was the youngest Hungarian player at the 2022 tournament, aged sixteen years and nine months,[11] she ranked third on the team for points and tied Alexandra Huszák, the Hungarian national team's all-time top scorer, for second on the team in goals, scoring Hungary’s only goal against the United States and slipping one past Anni Keisala of Finland, the 2021 World Championship Best Goaltender, for 2 goals in six games played.[12][13]
Career statistics
[edit]Regular season and playoffs
[edit]Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
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Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||
2018–19 | KMH Budapest II | DEBL | 6 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
2019–20 | KMH Budapest II | DEBL | 9 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
2019–20 | KMH Budapest | EWHL | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
2020–21 | KMH Budapest II | DEBL | 7 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
2020–21 | KMH Budapest | EWHL | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
2021–22 | KMH Budapest | EWHL | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | ||
2022–23 | OHA Tardiff | OWHL | 42 | 16 | 15 | 31 | 6 | – | – | – | – | – | ||
2023–24 | OHA Mavericks | OWHL | 57 | 16 | 28 | 44 | 8 | – | – | – | – | – | ||
OWHL totals | 99 | 32 | 43 | 75 | 14 | – | – | – | – | – |
International
[edit]Year | Team | Event | Result | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | |
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2020 | Hungary | U18 D1A | 3rd | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | |
2021 | Hungary | WC | 9th | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
2022 | Hungary | U18 D1A | 4th | 3 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |
2022 | Hungary | WC | 8th | 6 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
2023 | Hungary | U18 D1A | 4th | 5 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 4 | |
2023 | Hungary | WC | 9th | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | |
2024 | Hungary | WC D1A | 2nd | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Junior totals | 13 | 10 | 3 | 13 | 4 | ||||
Senior totals | 19 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
References
[edit]- ^ Kaposi, Davíd (16 January 2022). "Szívesen visszatérne Kanadába Metzler Regina". Jégkorongblog (in Hungarian). Retrieved 13 May 2022.
- ^ "Metzler Regina még több van a női válogatottban". Nemzeti Sport (in Hungarian). 17 November 2021. Retrieved 13 May 2022.
- ^ "Ice Hockey – Mixed NOC 3-on-3 Tournament, Women – Team Roster – Blue" (PDF). lausanne2020.sport. 9 January 2020. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
- ^ Steiss, Adam (15 January 2020). "Stars are golden in women's 3-on-3". International Ice Hockey Federation. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
- ^ "Vasas Hírek - Metzler Regina lett a legjobb magyar". Vasas SC (in Hungarian). 9 April 2022. Retrieved 13 May 2022.
- ^ "2022 Ice Hockey U18 Women's World Championship, Division I - Group A – Goal Scoring Leaders". International Ice Hockey Federation. 8 April 2020. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
- ^ "2022 Ice Hockey U18 Women's World Championship, Division I - Group A – Face-Off Leaders". International Ice Hockey Federation. 8 April 2020. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
- ^ Zavodszky, Szabolcs (10 April 2022). "Japanese girls impress in Division I". International Ice Hockey Federation. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
- ^ "2022 Ice Hockey U18 Women's World Championship, Division I - Group A – Best Players of Each Team Selected by Coaches". International Ice Hockey Federation. 8 April 2020. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
- ^ "2021 IIHF Ice Hockey Women's World Championship – Player Statistics by Team: HUN - Hungary". International Ice Hockey Federation. 24 August 2021. Retrieved 13 May 2022.
- ^ "2022 IIHF Ice Hockey Women's World Championship – Team Roster: HUN - Hungary". International Ice Hockey Federation. 24 August 2022. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
- ^ Aykroyd, Lucas (5 September 2022). "Taking away the positives". International Ice Hockey Federation. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
- ^ "2022 IIHF Ice Hockey Women's World Championship – Player Statistics by Team: HUN - Hungary". International Ice Hockey Federation. 3 September 2022. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
External links
[edit]- Biographical information and career statistics from Eliteprospects.com, or Eurohockey.com
- Regina Metzler at Olympedia (archive)
- 2005 births
- Living people
- Expatriate ice hockey players in the United States
- Hungarian expatriate ice hockey people
- Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in the United States
- Hungarian women's ice hockey forwards
- Ice hockey players at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics
- KMH Budapest (women) players
- Medalists at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics
- Mercyhurst Lakers women's ice hockey players
- Ontario Women's Hockey League players