Emily Pfalzer

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Emily Pfalzer
Date of birth June 14, 1993
place of birth Getzville , New York , USA
size 157 cm
Weight 57 kg
position defender
number #8th
Shot hand Left
Career stations
2009-2011 Mississauga Chiefs
2011-2015 Boston College
since 2015 Buffalo Beauts

Emily Pfalzer (born June 14, 1993 in Getzville , New York ) is an American ice hockey player who has been playing for the Buffalo Beauts in the National Women's Hockey League on the position of defender since the 2015/16 season . Pfalzer has been a member of the women's national ice hockey team in the United States since 2014 and has been a multiple world and Olympic champion.

Career

Emily Pfalzer (left) in the Buffalo Beauts jersey (2018)

Pfalzer attended Nichols High School in Buffalo until 2011 . Instead of being like most US junior players, the trained defender was not active in the system of the US ice hockey association USA Hockey , but played across the border for the Mississauga Chiefs in the Canadian junior league Provincial Women's Hockey League . Nevertheless, she took part with the US girls in the U18 World Junior Championships in 2010 and 2011 . She won silver first in 2010 and gold the following year. After graduating from high school , Pfalzer began studying at Boston College in the 2011/12 school year . In parallel to her studies, she played for the university team in Hockey East , a division in the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association , for the next four years . During this time the defender debuted at the 4 Nations Cup in 2014 in the United States women's national ice hockey team and took the team on the same play time World Cup 2015 in part. There the defensive player celebrated her first world championship win.

For the 2015/16 season , Pfalzer switched to the professional field and joined the Buffalo Beauts from the newly founded National Women's Hockey League . Over the course of the season, she was given the honor of putting together and leading one of the two teams in the league's first all-star game. In regular play, she reached the championship finals with the Beauts, but was subject to the Boston Pride there . In the following game year , the team returned the favor for the final defeat in the previous year and won the Isobel Cup at the end of the season . The two-year period was rounded off by winning the gold medal at the 2016 and 2017 World Championships .

The defender then turned her back on the Beauts and the NWHL after two seasons and was signed by USA Hockey for the 2017/18 season. In the association, she prepared for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , where she won Olympic gold with the Americans.

Achievements and Awards

  • 2016 Participation in the NWHL All-Star Game
  • 2017 Participation in the NWHL All-Star Game
  • 2017 Isobel Cup win with the Buffalo Beauts
  • 2019 participation in the NWHL All-Star Game

International

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM +/- Sp T V Pt SM +/-
2009/10 Mississauga Chiefs PWHL 30th 5 22nd 27 0 6th 1 4th 5 0
2010/11 Mississauga Chiefs PWHL 28 5 12 17th 4th 9 2 6th 8th 2
2011/12 Boston College Hockey East 37 5 13 18th 8th +9
2012/13 Boston College Hockey East 37 4th 13 17th 18th +29
2013/14 Boston College Hockey East 37 6th 19th 25th 14th +22
2014/15 Boston College Hockey East 36 8th 34 42 10 +62
2015/16 Buffalo Beauts NWHL 17th 2 10 12 6th 5 1 4th 5 2
2016/17 Buffalo Beauts NWHL 15th 1 6th 7th 6th −14 2 0 0 0 6th +2
2017/18 USA hockey International Preparation for the Winter Olympics
2018/19 Buffalo Beauts NWHL 16 2 4th 6th 19th +11 2 2 1 3 0 ± 0
PWHL total 58 10 34 44 4th 15th 3 10 13 2
NCAA overall 147 23 79 102 50 +122
NWHL total 48 5 20th 25th 31 9 3 5 8th 8th

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM +/-
2010 United States U18 World Cup 2nd place, silver 5 0 6th 6th 0 +11
2011 United States U18 World Cup 1st place, gold 5 2 2 4th 0 +11
2015 United States WM 1st place, gold 4th 1 1 2 0 +2
2016 United States WM 1st place, gold 5 0 0 0 0 +2
2017 United States WM 1st place, gold 5 1 1 2 0 +4
2018 United States Olympia 1st place, gold 5 0 0 0 0 +5
2019 United States WM 1st place, gold 7th 1 5 6th 0 +16
Total juniors 10 2 8th 10 0 +22
Women overall 26th 3 7th 10 0 +29

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

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personal data
SURNAME Pfalzer, Emily
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Getzville , New York