Barbora Juříčková

Barbora Juříčková
Born (2006-10-21) 21 October 2006
Ostrava, Czech Republic
Height 168 cm (5 ft 6 in)
Weight 60 kg (132 lb; 9 st 6 lb)
Position Forward
Shoots Left
Auroraliiga team
Former teams		 HPK Hämeenlinna
ŽHC Uničov
National team  Czech Republic
Playing career 2022–present

Barbora Juříčková (born 21 October 2006) is a Czech ice hockey player and member of the Czech national ice hockey team. She has played with HPK Hämeenlinna in the Finnish Auroraliiga since 2022.

Playing career

Juříčková spent her minor ice hockey years primarily playing with boys' teams in the Czech Republic. She began intermittently playing with the women's team of HC Uničov in the B league of the 1. liga žen in her early teens, though the boys' teams remained her priority.[1]

At age fifteen, she relocated to Hämeenlinna, Finland to play with HPK in the Finnish championship league, the Naisten Liiga (NSML; renamed Auroraliiga in 2024).[2] In addition to moving away from home and joining a team in which she struggled with the primary languages spoken (English and Finnish), Juříčková was the youngest player on the HPK roster during the 2022–23 season.[1] Despite the many challenges during her first season in Finland, she was supported by her father, who relocated with her, and her new teammates, including other international imports on HPK like Czech forward Karolína Erbanová.[3]

Juříčková demonstrated strong offensive development in Finland, more than doubling her previous point totals season over season. After scoring a modest 9 points (3 goals + 6 assists) in her first season, she tallied 19 points (11+8) in the 2023–24 season.[4] Her breakout season came in 2024–25, in which she ranked fourth in the league for scoring, with 55 points (21+34) in 32 games, and was named to the Auroraliiga All-Star team.[5]

Juříčková is committed to beginning her college ice hockey career with the St. Lawrence Saints women's ice hockey program in the ECAC Hockey conference of the NCAA Division I in the 2026–27 season.[6]

International play

Juříčková represented the Czech Republic with a team of under-17 players in the girls' ice hockey tournament at the 2022 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival. She served as an alternate captain and recorded one goal across three games as the Czech Republic won gold.

As a junior player with the Czech national under-18 team, she participated in the IIHF U18 Women's World Championship in 2022, 2023, and 2024. She was selected by the coaches as a top-three player on the Czech team in 2023 and served as an alternate captain to the silver medal winning team in 2024.[7]

The 2023–24 Women's Euro Hockey Tour provided her first experience with the senior national team and she played in three of four EHT tournaments that season, recording one assist in eleven games. The following season, she was selected to play in all four EHT tournaments and recorded her first national team goal at the 3-Nations Tournament in Liberec against Finland.[8]

She made her major tournament debut with the senior national team at the 2025 IIHF Women's World Championship, posting one assist across seven games.[9]

In January 2026, she was named to the Czech roster for the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2026 Winter Olympics.[10] She scored Czech Republic's first goal of the tournmant in the preliminary round game against the United States and notched an assist in the preliminary round game against Finland.

Personal life

Her older brother, Filip Juříček (born 2004), is also an ice hockey player, a forward. He played in the Finnish junior leagues and began his college ice hockey career with the St. Lawrence Saints men's ice hockey program in the 2025–26 season.[3]

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

    Regular season   Playoffs
Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
2022-23 HPK NSML 32 3 6 9 8 8 0 2 2 2
2023-24 HPK NSML 27 11 8 19 24 8 1 1 2 18
2024-25 HPK Auroraliiga 32 21 34 55 12 14 4 3 7 0
Auroraliiga/NSML totals 91 35 48 83 44 30 5 6 11 20

International

Year Team Event Result   GP G A Pts PIM
2022 Czechia EYOF 3 1 0 1 2
2022 Czechia WC18 5th 5 0 1 1 2
2023 Czechia WC18 5th 5 1 0 1 8
2024 Czechia WC18 6 0 1 1 0
2025 Czechia WC 4th 7 0 1 1 0
2026 Czechia OG 5th 5 1 1 2 4
U18 totals 16 1 2 3 10
Senior totals 12 1 2 3 4

References

  1. ^ a b Huttunen, Sasha (7 January 2025). "Barbora muutti 15-vuotiaana Suomeen – ei voi enää sietää yhtä ruokaa: "Söin niin paljon"". Ilta-Sanomat (in Finnish). Retrieved 12 February 2026.
  2. ^ Pennanen, Eetu (23 January 2026). "Hämeenlinna ja HPK kasvattivat teinitytöstä olympiaurheilijan muutamassa vuodessa: "Ne olivat onnen kyyneliä"". Hämeen Sanomat (in Finnish). Retrieved 12 February 2026.
  3. ^ a b Kauhala, Topias (13 December 2022). "Kun HPK:n tshekkihyökkääjä Barbora Jurickova, 16, kiinnostui isoveljensä tavoin Suomessa pelaamisesta, otti isä Petr etätyönsä mukaan ja muutti tyttärensä kanssa kerrostaloon Rinkelinmäellä". Hämeen Sanomat (in Finnish). Retrieved 15 February 2026.
  4. ^ Seppä, Lassi (27 October 2024). "Ennätyspisteet ovat Barbora Juříčkoválle hauskanpidon sivutuote − pelaajakato ja sarjan tason kaventuminen harmittavat". Jatkoaika (in Finnish). Retrieved 15 February 2026.
  5. ^ Mennander, Pasi (7 June 2025). "Auroraliigan kauden 2024–25 palkitut pelaajat, valmentajat ja tuomarit". Finnish Ice Hockey Association (in Finnish). Retrieved 15 February 2026.
  6. ^ St. Lawrence Saints [@slusaintshockey]; (25 November 2025). "Announcing the SLU Hockey Class of 2030…". Retrieved 20 February 2026 – via Instagram.
  7. ^ "2023 IIHF U18 Women's World Championship – Best Players of Each Team Selected by Coaches". International Ice Hockey Federation. 14 January 2023. Retrieved 15 February 2026.
  8. ^ Kennedy, Ian (7 August 2024). "Czechia Names Roster For First Women's Euro Hockey Tour Stop". The Hockey News. Retrieved 15 February 2026.
  9. ^ Navrátil, Štěpán (31 March 2025). "Ženy: Nominace na domácí MS žen v Českých Budějovicích je zveřejněna". Czech Ice Hockey Association (in Czech). Retrieved 15 February 2026.
  10. ^ Kennedy, Ian (6 January 2026). "Czechia Names 2026 Olympic Women's Hockey Roster". The Hockey News. Retrieved 15 February 2026.
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