Klára Peslarová

Klára Peslarová (born 23 November 1996) is a Czech professional ice hockey goaltender. She previously played for the Boston Fleet of the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL), and for Brynäs IF Dam and Modo Hockey of the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL). She is also a member of the Czech Republic women's national ice hockey team.

Playing career Peslarová developed in the minor ice hockey department of HC RT Torax Poruba in her home city of Ostrava, in the eastern Czech Republic. By age 14, she was playing with the HC Poruba men's under-16 (U16) team in the Junior Youth Extraliga (, ELMD) and she first played with the HC Poruba men's under-18 (U18) team in the Senior Youth Extraliga (, ELSD) at age 15.

She made her senior league debut with SK Karviná of the Women's 1st Hockey League (, shortened to ), the top women's league in the Czech Republic, in the 2011–12 season. She continued to divide her playing time between the HC Poruba men's junior teams and the SK Karviná women's team during the 2012–13 and 2013–14 seasons, never playing more than 20 games in any league per season.

As her 18th birthday approached and she would no longer be eligible to play in Czech men's junior leagues, Peslarová looked abroad to further her development. For the 2014–15 season, she relocated to the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk to sign with Biryusa Krasnoyarsk of the Russian Women's Hockey League (RWHL; replaced by the Zhenskaya Hockey League in 2015). Another relocation preceded the 2015–16 season, with Peslarová settling in Stockholm to join SDE Hockey of the Riksserien (renamed SDHL in 2016), as the team's starting goaltender.

After two seasons with SDE, Peslarová signed for the 2017–18 season with the men's representative B-team of HC Poruba in the Czech Regional Hockey Championship (, abbreviated to Krajský přebor), the fourth-tier men's ice hockey league in the Czech Republic. During the season, she became the first woman to post a shutout in a Czech men's league, denying all thirteen shots on goal during a match against HK Nový Jičín. In addition to playing with HC Poruba B, she also returned to SK Karviná of the renamed Czech Women's Extraliga for the 2017–18 season.

After one season in the Czech Republic, Peslarová returned to Sweden to sign with her second SDHL club, MoDo Hockey in Örnsköldsvik.

After spending the 2023-2024 season in the Swedish Women's Hockey League, Peslarová signed as a goaltender in the PWHL for the Boston Fleet for the 2024-2025 season. She played a total of four games, including two shutouts.

She returned to Brynäs IF Dam for the 2025-2026 season.

International play

Peslarová was the starting goaltender for the Czech national under-18 team in the 2013 and 2014 IIHF Women's World U18 Champhionships. She was named Best Goaltender by the directorate at the 2014 tournament, as she backstopped the Czech team to the second bronze medal in team history.

She represented the Czech Republic at the IIHF Women's World Championship in 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021, and 2022; and at the Division 1 Group A tournaments in 2014 and 2015. Following the 2022 tournament, she was named to the Media All-Star team.

She represented the Czech Republic at the Winter Olympic Games in 2022 and 2026. She shut out Finland in the preliminary round, stopping all 25 shots. This marked the first time a European team has shut out Finland in the Olympics.

Career statistics Regular season and playoffs Regular season Playoffs/RelegationSeason Team League SO SV% GAA GP W L Min GA SO SV% GAA 2011-12 HC Poruba U16 ELMD 20 7 13 1086 70 0 .889 3.87 – – – – – – – – 2011-12 HC Poruba U18 ELSD 1 6.00 – – – – – – – – 2011-12 SK Karviná Liga žen 10 8 2 600 21 3 .883 2.10 2 0 2 64 23 0 .574 22.26 2012-13 HC Poruba U16 ELMD 20 4 16 1051 69 3 .902 3.94 – – – – – – – – 2012-13 HC Poruba U18 ELSD 1 2.00 – – – – – – – – 2012-13 SK Karviná Liga žen 2 1 1 120 5 0 .884 2.50 4 4 0 240 5 1 .942 1.25 2013-14 HC Poruba U18 ELSD 12 0 12 458 39 0 .883 5.11 – – – – – – – – 2013-14 SK Karviná Liga žen 3 3 0 120 4 0 .852 2.00 3 3 0 180 5 1 .821 1.67 2014-15 Biryusa Krasnoyarsk RWHL 2015-16 SDE HF Riksserien 27 1 25 1538 92 1 .904 3.59 8 8 0485 13 1 .926 1.16 2016-17 SDE HF SDHL 21 3 17 1218 59 2 .926 2.91 5 4 1304 10 0 .918 1.97 2017-18 HC Poruba B Krajský přebor 6 1 – – – – – – – – 2017-18 SK Karviná Extraliga žen 9 6 3 494 14 2 .924 1.70 1 0 1 65 3 0 .927 2.77 2018-19 MODO SDHL 24 17 7 1455 60 2 .925 2.48 5 2 3 295 14 0 .901 2.85 2019-20 MODO SDHL 24 8 16 1401 70 2 .908 3.00 2 2 0120 0 2 0.00 1.00 2020-21 MODO SDHL 27 15 12 1623 59 4 .929 2.18 2 0 2 128 8 0 .887 3.78 2021-22 MoDo SDHL 147 16 7 1443 54 1 .924 2.25 3 1 2 227 6 0 .943 1.59 SDHL totals 123 60 84 8675 394 12 .919 2.73 25 17 8 1558 51 3 .920 1.96 Sources:

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