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[extraliga-related]

SVK vs KAZ | DEC 12, 2024

↳ 16-year-old Nela Lopušanová strikes thrice within the first period of her senior team debut, adds another goal as well as an assist later on.

A lacrosse-style goal was of particular interest for highlight-reel compilations:

[grantmentis]

Nela Lopusanova finished the three game Olympic qualifier with (checks notes) 11 goals and 7 assists in 3 games

Still one more round to go (which will be played in February) but in three games she has placed sixth all time ever in terms of points in a single Olympic qualifiers. The majority of the records are held by the Slovakian team from 2008-2009. Of course, some caveat that higher ranked teams only play the final rounds and Slovakia was significantly stronger than the teams in this pool, but still highly unprecedented especially for a 17 year old

Slovakia will go on to face Germany, Austria, and Hungary in Germany in the first week of February. Netherlands, who beat Britain in overtime thanks to a goal from Savine Wielenga, will play Sweden, Denmark, and Norway in Sweden. The final team who qualified was Poland, who will play Japan, France, and China in Japan. The top seed from each group will go to the Olympics.