Klara Hymlarova is a top prospect for the 2024 PWHL Draft. She's a versatile player who can move throughout the roster and brings a variety of attributes to the PWHL.
Klara Hymlarova is a top prospect for the 2024 PWHL Draft. She's a versatile player who can move throughout the roster and brings a variety of attributes to the PWHL.
Klara Hymlarova brings multiple dimensions to the ice every game she players. In the NCAA this year with St. Cloud State she spent five months playing defense. At the World Championships she was deployed as a center at times for Czechia. Naturally, she's probably a winger.
Her ability to move across the lineup and make an impact wherever she goes could be the attribute that sees her leap frog other prospects in the PWHL Draft.
"She's just such a well rounded player, that's why she has the capacity to play kind of wherever the coaching staff needs her," said Czechia head coach Carla MacLeod, who is also the head coach of PWHL Ottawa.
Her impact on the ice goes beyond goals and assists. Hymlarova is the type of player who helps teams win tight games and stay competitive.
"She's just fierce, she's got good speed, she's got good size, she likes the physical side of the game as well," said MacLeod. "She's an energy player where she brings and elevates her teammates up, she's a really unique player that way....Obviously you can see her skill set, she's not only sort of that physical piece, there's a finesse to her game too."
Off the ice, Hymlarova has featured frequently into viral videos from Czechia's locker room as a positive player providing off ice energy to her team as well. For the 25-year-old Opava, Czechia product, she hopes to soon have the opportunity to play with and against the best in the world on a nightly basis.
"I'm super excited," said Hymlarova. "I hope I'm going to get there and get the opportunity to play with the best players in the world and see how it's going to be."