Katerina Mrazova has emerged as one of the best players in the world, despite being overlooked much of her career.
Katerina Mrazova has emerged as one of the best players in the world, despite being overlooked much of her career.
Despite being overlooked for much of her career, Katerina Mrazova has emerged this season as one of the best players on the planet. With PWHL Ottawa she sits fourth in league scoring with 17 points in 19 games.
With Team Czechia, she's won back-to-back World Championship bronze medals.
When you look at her body of work, however, Mrazova's accolades go far beyond that. She's played in the CWHL, NCAA, NWHL, SDHL, and PHF. In the SDHL, she earned MVP honors scoring 168 points in 86 games in the league. She won a Clarkson Cup with the CWHL's Boston Blades in 2013. She was named a PHF All-Star.
A skilled playmaker who opens up the ice for herself and her teammates using her skating and deceptive stick work, Mrazova can also score, and she does so by taking the puck to the middle of the ice, driving the net, and finding open space for herself when she's on the powerplay.
An all around player, media and fans can no longer exclude Katerina Mrazova from conversations around the best players in the world. It's not only a conversation of forwards from Canada and USA, or well known European stars like Alina Muller and Jenni Hiirikoski, it's not a conversation that must include PWHL Ottawa and Czechia center Katerina Mrazova.
When Ottawa drafted Mrazova, head coach Carla MacLeod said she believed the team just acquired a top 10 forward in the world, and MacLeod was absolutely correct.