Regina Metzler

Hungarian ice hockey player

Ice hockey player

Regina Metzler
Metzler at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics
Born	(2005-10-25) 25 October 2005 (age 18)
Height	178 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	73 kg (161 lb; 11 st 7 lb)
Position	Forward
Shoots	Left
OWHL team Former teams	Ontario Hockey Academy KMH Budapest
National team	Hungary
Playing career	2018–present

Regina Metzler (born 25 October 2005) is a Hungarian ice hockey player for the Ontario Hockey Academy of the Ontario Women's Hockey Leauge (OWHL) and the Hungarian national team.

Playing career

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

Medal record
Representing Hungary
Women's ice hockey
World U18 Championship
	2020 Germany	Division IA

At the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics, she 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

Regular season and playoffs

			Regular season					Playoffs
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	Ontario Hockey Academy	OWHL	42	16	15	31	6	–	–	–	–	–
OWHL totals			42	16	15	31	6	–	–	–	–	–

International

Year	Team	Event	Result	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
2020	Hungary	U18 (Div IA)		5	1	1	2	0
2021	Hungary	WC	9th	4	0	0	0	0
2022	Hungary	U18 (Div IA)	4th	3	5	0	5	0
2022	Hungary	WC	8th	6	2	0	2	0
2023	Hungary	U18 (Div IA)	4th	5	4	2	6	4
2023	Hungary	WC	9th	4	1	1	2	0
Junior totals				13	10	3	13	4
Senior totals				14	3	1	4	0

References

^ 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.