This 14-Year-Old Phenom is Dominating Women's Hockey
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- Опубліковано 15 січ 2023
- 14-year old Nela Lopusanova put on a show at the IIHF U18 Women's World Championship. She was named MVP of the tournament after scoring scoring 9 goals, including a Michigan goal and a between the legs goal.
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What's more impressive is the fact that she plays in womens league this season and already got 25 points for 15 goals and 10 assists in only six games.
you should add she has 31 pts in 10 games in a U16 mens league
If you do a little more research you will notice something..... That league is called a women's league but almost exclusively teenagers. Nela isn't even the youngest player on her team. Not to mention scoring in that league is extremely high.
@@tmlms1313 If you do a little more research you'll notice she is the leading scorer on her U16 boys team
@@harshbirbrar2830 I'm well aware of that, but my post was not about that team it was about the Women's league team she plays on. Do I have discuss every team she's ever played for?
Damn! Wow
14 years old, next womens hockey superstar
They’ve had one before?
Womens? shes better than an average NHL player.
@@auri5459 ok calm down there....
@@732852971 What? thats pretty much a fact. If she can grow up physically more i think she has a real chance at even getting to NHL.
@@auri5459 c'mon now. Why do people actually think she has a chance to make the NHL. that's honestly just disrespectful to her.
There's nothing wrong if she played womens hockey. She can tear it up in her womens league like mcdavid does in the nhl.
1:19 you can hear someone say “ she’s the best hockey player I’ve ever seen”
And right before that she hits the griddy celly🥶
i totally missed it the first time lol
Big talent from Slovakia 👍😍🤩
She is incredible
She is a legend already
She was playing with boys since childhood and her brother is actually playing the highest slovak hockey league. Amazing talent!
She'll be the best player in the world in the next 5-6 years, if she stays healthy. A lot of the stars are getting older and past their prime. She'll dominate the Senior level in due time. The scary part is she won't even be in her prime for another 10 years, at least. It's fantastic to see a superstar in the making that isn't from Canada, USA or Finland either. THIS right here is why women's hockey needs to be kept in the Olympics. Because of players like Lopusanova
slovakia is becoming factory for top draft prospect man and woman in last years tho
@@thissucks6886 I don't think so, this is only one player in whole federation, but women hockey in Slovakia is still tragic.
The best player in the world in 5-6 years? Lol. ? Why ? Because she pulled a Michigan against a goalie equivalent to a Midget AA goalie in Ontario?
I guess some people jump on those bandwagons some quick.
She played in the lower division against the likes of Japan and the Swiss team. No disrespect to those programs , but the level of play would be on par with strong Midget AA or the PWHL. She has a long way to go. Most of those individual skilled players offensive threats are mitigated with an increase in speed.
Not hating, just a sad fact.
This player may move on to the NCAA and have a great career, hopefully she does, but I can see her like others before her ,staying in the European women's league for the rest of her career.
Best female player.
@@Gl-my8fw Yeah, in B level u 18 female worlds.
Dude those last 3 goals were sick she's only 14 dominating everyone 4 years older than her
They are not all 4 years older than her. She's not even the youngest on her own team.
@@tmlms1313 and you what achieved😆🤦🏻♂️?
@@martinsveda6849 What?. I'm just pointing out a fact. The average age of the tournament is not anywhere near 18
Not just goals but every single goal is totally sick 👌
Really impressive, some beauty goals in that video for sure.
The fact that she is currently dominating u16 league in slovakia while playing against older boys with rules that favor boys as well and she is playing with 3.1ppg. Absolutely incredicle stuff. In all of hockey propably the most sovereign talent. Compare her to the average 14 your old girl playing hockey in Slovakia when she is better than 99% of the boys her age at the moment. Gretzky or McDavid werent nearly as much better than the average competition they had at that age. Of course boys hockey is more competitive due to sheer number of players alone but still. Unbeliavable.
Just to clarify the 99% point, in the league she plays in there is one (1) other player at the same age who is of course male with better ppg than she has (3.4) So everyone except one of all the 14 year olds playing in slovakian u16 league are putting up worse stats than she does
@@badtortoise3338 I'm not talking about this tournament. The stats I was referring are from the top u16 league in Slovakia. For boys. But I undestand that what she is doing is hard to believe
She is also 8 inches and 50 pounds heavier than some of the boys in that u16 league. She is literally the 2nd biggest player physically on her own team.
@@tmlms1313 Yea and she is also a girl :D there are really disadventageous physical differences for a girl in physical sport. Males have more bone density and more muscle mass than girls.
Put a female MMA pro in the octagon with a male MMA pro from the same weight class and see if being the same weight helps
Bedard? I'll draft THIS chick!! And she's 14?! What?! AND she threw up the guns after that first goal??? LOL Love it!!
This is so awesome!
What a talent! Go NELA❣👏👏👏
Most interesting player in women’s hockey in history. Nobody else attracted this much attention. Not a single canadian, not a single american, not a single finn.
Wait why have I missed that there was a Finnish female hockey superstar at some point?
@@topiheimola69 No esim. Riikka Sallinen?
@@rallyycar6750 nii, no kaipa naisten kanssa on hankala ees määrittää ketä on ja ketä ei oo supertähti. Itelle tulee mielee vaan Schofield ja Kessel
I saw her live in Sweden, She is amazing!
Its not just goals, its how She moves, its pleasure to watch player like this
skating skills are very smooth and confident
Nela je Super ! :) She is super :)
What a talent
Juraj Slafkovsky in the Slovak U16 league as a 14 year old: 30/24/54 in 23 GP for 2.35 P/GP
Nela Lopusanova in the exact same league as a 14 year old woman: 15/16/31 in 10 GP for 3.10 P/GP
Just sayin...
I mean realistically compare the quality of those two leagues and number of kids playing in them
Just sayin…
@@WhiteenViewer very true it could be a few bad years but still it's pretty insane.
Juraj was 13yo and leaugue had differrent structure then (now is regional), but that doesn't make Nela less incredible.
who cares. nobody cares about womens hockey
@@obrik666 You care, obviously
Wow she's unbelievable
Nela ❤️🇸🇰👏👏👏
big talent
Yeaah from Žilina my city 🎉🎉👍👏👏👏
Nela Gretzky Lopušanová👍
Perfektná je,len tak ďalej ❤️
We need a great professional women's league right now so we can showcase this kind of talent to the world.
If you buy me a season ticket, I'll join you
@@badtortoise3338 if women would play like this, I would watch
There is the u22 league in Canada that she wouldn't even be a top 20 scorer in but apparently she's better than everyone in the world because she plays in the 15th strongest women's league.
@@BCSimonYT She's only 14 and she outscored every other player at this tournament, including all the Canadian players. Canada's leading scorer at the tournament is 17th in scoring in the league you're talking about, so there's no reason why Lopusanova couldn't at least do equally well there.
@@iCoolaxe go see the tournament format.. She played in a B division group. If Canadians did, they'd have a bucketload more goals.
It's not just that she was so productive, it's the flair and swagger that she has. And this really showed the importance of having these games on TV and presented professionally (before TSN etc picked this up you were at the mercy of the host fed and I shudder to remember the "fishbowl" tournament...if she was around then all this would've been wasted).
BTW....she followed this up with 12 points in 4 games and a silver medal at the European Youth Olympic Festival, including four in a semifinal upset over Finland.
The best young talent I think I've ever seen in women's hockey (particularly out of Europe), the only comparable I can think of is mayyyybe Alina Mueller? But A) Nela's rise has been way more accessible and B) Switzerland at the time she started to break out wasn't top flight at U18, so you can't really compare that well.
(And I say this as someone that watches a *lottttt* of women's hockey, mostly at the college level.)
In her first international match for Slovak women team she scored hattrick against Hungary. Next day she assisted on both Slovak goals against Norway.
Just "wow"
The Best Ever!
hello, from Slovakia ^^
Incredible
Very very proud🇸🇰😍
Slafkovky 14 2,8 priemer NELA 14 3,15 priemer slovakia liga U 14 men
Unbelievable!!
What is the "ceiling" for this young lady!?!! How good can she get? Where is her hockey journey going to take her? Wishing her all the best!
Mila slecna Lopusanova, mohla by som byt vasa babka. Pozeram hojej. Vy ste carovna bosorka, ktora dava uchvatne goly. Bravo. Gratulujem.
Some sweet hands there for sure.
If anyone could mayyyyyyybe play in the NHL in the future this girl is it!
she's good don't get me wrong, but she'd never crack a NHL roster, not even an AHL one. Too much physicality at that level. Hockey is just one of those sports where separating the 2 genders is necessary
@@Cope59 She does currently play in a mens league (same as the one Slafkovsky played in) where she has more points than he did...
@@jonahrosen6173 Slovakian U16 boys leaugue
@@Cope59 she’s already the same size as Caufield at 14. She plays in a full contact u16 boys league. Why does everyone talk about her like she’ll shatter the moment anyone hits her.
@@matthewstlouis9736 first of all, girls physically mature before boys. Second, we aren't actually comparing u16 boys to nhl are we? lol.
Like I said she's skilled, but she'd never be able to compete at the nhl level. Just think about it, men are built bigger, way more muscle mass, faster, more explosive. She wouldn't be able to hang. which is totally fine. Men and women are different, its not a knock on her.
Just let her tear up womens hockey like mcdavid does to mens hockey
Vivat slovakia N E L A😃
WoW 👌👌👌👌
Recently she got 19points (10 goals + 9 assists) in one game :-D
wau
Just imagine Her and bedard as a couple..their kids would be world class super talents😃😃😃
14 😯
Shes gonna be the best woman player ever. she basically already is . shes amazing , fun to watch
Hayley Wickenheiser, among several others, would like a word with you
@@ElmerFudd16 i know who they are . im canadian but pretty sure at 14 they weren't doing what this girl does
@@jessemacneil2723 she's doing it in the 15th strongest country in women's hockey and B division teams. Canada can put 50+ players on the ice that can compete with her
@@BCSimonYTalright show me any canadian 14 year old doing this right now lmao
@@seansibley9371 literally a Canadian girls team won peewee tournament for the best u12 players across Canada.
I’m not usually impressed by girls hockey but yeah for 14 she has some real serious talent. She actually seems very solid on her skates
Slovakia 🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰
To make Jesse happy, the bardown team should go to Winnipeg and go to a jets game
Wow. The real deal.
I sure wish women would start supporting womens hockey. Its embarrassing to see so many empty seats at international competition.
Women literally won’t support women’s sports, then complain how men don’t support them 🤡
👍👏🇸🇰🤗
man she just like me fr
1:18 "Amazing, she's the best woman player I've ever seen!" Yes!
We don`t have a lot to brag about in Slovakia, but when we do... 😎
She would hands down be the GOAT if she was from NA. Can't see Slovakia ever being good enough to challenge Can/USA
She is like Connor McDavid in Edmonton. A great player in a mediocre team.
Mediocre team is Chechnia or Czechia .. same shit.
i love most sports and find just as much entertainment in, for example mens or womens tennis, i watch women's volley ball & enjoy it just as much as mens. i don't watch much women's soccer or basketball to be honest. i watch womens hockey from time to time. i wrote that long preface so that people do not jump all over me when i say this: this young lady's skating skills and power will never allow her to play above a low tier mens college team. i am interested to see if i will be proven wrong & hope I am. it was very exciting watching the Manon Rheaume trajectory to the NHL.
“Dominating woman’s hockey”
she actually played underage in a 16u men’s league at 14 and beat an nhl prospects record for points in a certain amount of games, so she will be dominating every league she plays in no matter the gender.
💔👍💔👍💔👍
young Gretzky with dress :-)
Pwhf stud
Her mom was yawning😂
She's clearly prodigious and highly skilled, but let's see how she plays against a world-class women's national team such as Canada, USA, or Finland before proclaiming that she could play meaningfully in the AHL or NHL.
She couldn't even crack the top scoring list of u22 league in Canada, these idiots just hype her with no understanding of her opponents level.
world class women nation team? Such thing exists?
@@warrax111 that's just rude. Why do you hate women?
@@BCSimonYT You probably didnt understand. I mean hockey... men sports.
I dont hate woman, I just dont like (not exactly hate) entitled women, that cannot accept, they are not built for being the men.
@@warrax111 I don't think the girl thinks she can play professional men's I think it's all these idiots commenting.
Sweden goalie looks like "WTF?"
Her goals were the weirdest I've even seen.
Phenom?
Leave slovakian hockey scene while u can girl. We root for u.
Let's suppose she was from Toronto... Would she make the Canadian women's team (prior to this crazy display at the u18's)? Very unlikely... Hockey Canada brass would be like... We've got our eye on you...Keep it up & we'll talk again next year... Hayley Wick made the Canada's Nats at 15... Didn't she?
She wouldn't be good enough for team Canada because she wouldn't be anything but a bench player in u22 league at best.
@@BCSimonYT Au contraire...Hayley Wickenheiser sp? not only made our Women's national team at 15... She was the best player... I'm thinking this Slovak lass will be as good as Hayley, if not better...
A male player, at that age, cannot compete physically, against the best adult male hockey players... No so, a female player... Some, if they've got the skills, can compete with the world's best female players... irrespective of age...
@@berryscott3590 those players cannot be playing in the 15-17th strongest women's league in the world though and be considered the be a future goat. It's absolute nonsense. She couldn't keep up with a single CHL or OHL player for example and these folks talking Bedard. Cmon, absolute nonsense.
When players dominate garbage leagues, they have a wake up call when they can't just skate breakaways 24/7. She's not that exceptional of a skater to dominate at higher levels.
@@BCSimonYT First off... She doesn't need to compete with Bedard... The World's Best Female Hockey Players don't compete against the World's Best Male Hockey Players... PERIOD...
Secondly, what she did, she did as a 14 year old at the WORLD's WOMEN U18 CHAMPIONSHIP... Not in some 3rd rate, Women's League... When a Canadian Female U18 does better... DO LET US KNOW...
I won't hold my breath ;)
@@berryscott3590 she did play second rate division of u18. Yes, she's played impressively but to think she's better than the best woman players is extremely disrespectful to those women and flat out wrong.
Usually I chirp woman's hockey, but this girl is incredible for either gender at 14 wow. The skillset and creativity
Ur cringe
1:48 hahaha no way she did that
I think she needs to move out of Slovakia already for next year. Either Finnish or Swedish female hockey league would be best for her.
Hej hov kam ideš
Most be hard when nobody attends ur game but you know the stand are full for the men’s games
SHE"S ON A MENS TEAM OMG
Watch her number... she's female Peter Bondra lol
14 years old doing shit most people can't even pull off in a video game. 😂 WOW!
Very good woman hockeyplayer but not fast !
Obviously a trans MTF.
Enough with the deception. It's obvious.
💀
I don't see any hits.. oh it's women's hockey.
What a talent...✌️✌️✌️
Škoda že nie je chlapec 😀 ma neskutočne šikovne ruky
Ban those stupid horns lol
NHL draft 2027?
Only for a publicity stunt 🤡
@@ElmerFudd16jealous? 😂🫵🏼
@@almastebele4564 Of what? Some woman that 99.99% of the world has never heard of?
@@ElmerFudd16 I’m sure 99.9% haven’t heard of you either 😂🤏🏼
Shame that she cannot make good money even if she would be best in the world...
the waffle house has found its new host
She's not even playing "women's hockey". This was u18 with 6-3 over Japanese girls, 4-1 over Swiss, lost 4-3, and 6-3 to CZE and 6-1 loss with SWE. Canada beat that same Sweden team 10-0. She had involvement in 12 of 17 goals on a second tier team. She'd be an average player at best on Canada, USA or Sweden.
She's playing on MsHKM Zilina U16 that has 107 goals scored in 15 games. A league that hoists +200 GD in 20 games and 27 u16 teams for a country with 11,600 registered hockey players. To put into perspective, this league has nearly 5% of the total hockey players in the entire country. in other words, she's playing u16 boys house league.
AVG AGE is 14 with 110lbs weight average on her team. Seven forwards are under 5ft tall in her team alone and around 100lbs. They average 7 goals per game. So realistically, 31pts of 321 means she is on the ice for a tenth of the goals scored in a slovakian boys house league.
This also means, there are kids on her team with at least 70pts in 15 games.. hardly a competitive league, boys or girls, they'd get destroyed in Canada. She's not dominating women's hockey, she's dominating weak level womens hockey and boys house league.
Let's dig even more for those claiming she can play mens hockey.. Not a single player on the u18,17 slovakian national boys teams play in the u18 league. They have a u20 league that is much stronger. It's basically AAA and the u18 league is A/House league. Therefore, she doesn't even COMPETE AGAINST the top male talent in or around her age group. They are 14 playing u20 or professional level.
In Europe they fast track boys to professional hockey at a young age and get them experience. If someone is very talented, they'd be 10,11,12 years old in the u18 league, and by 14 they are in u20 and training with first team. So sorry for the fictitious fantasies people are having, it's all bs news.
Haha finally someone who knows what the fuck they are talking about! It would seem as though a lot of hockey fans don't know much about hockey.
You're Czech, aren't you? You are only making intrigues against the Slovaks. The world has never seen such haters. 🖕🖕🖕
@@zdenekdanko4729 not Czech. Canadian
@@jrozel6124 they just like sensationalism
@@BCSimonYT Ok, but you remind me of Czech. Get better.
Woman hockey is a thing ? 😳
Not for taters like you lol
She not good that Griddy was terrible. The actual hockey part was ok though.
i agree about the griddy but she's amazing so when u see her in the nhl, hmu :)
iam a slovak and nobody cares about women´s hockey
Now I know why people don’t watch womens hockey, the screaming after a goal is horrifying
Cringe comment
@@mikegaskin5542 thanks for the input Mike!
Meh.
What everyone said when they saw ur face
To TSN and Sportsnet….please stop cramming women’s hockey down my throat. If I want to watch it I’ll watch it
(I’m not going to watch it)
How are they cramming it down your throat? They post about womens u18 much like any other tournament that they have broadcast rights for. You cared enough to click and post an angry comment. Nobody said you gotta watch these videos so why is it such an issue that Sportsnet and TSN do?
Please stay at home and off the internet at all times. Even the slightest triggers might shatter your fragile ego beyond repair!
TSN buys the rights to broadcast the game -> They sell advertising rights to companies during the game. -> You get people to watch by advertising the tournament. -> The more people that watch the more money they can charge to advertise. -> Profit.....Did you fail the common sense portion of grade school?
Do you have the same opinion about how TSN does the Mens World Juniors? That is cramming something down your throat.
i'd like to know how merely posting a highlight reel is somehow "cramming women's hockey" down your throat. if you don't want to watch it, just don't click on the video. no need to cram your negativity down our throats. thank you.
I enjoy watching womens IIHF hockey. Don't be so miserable and don't watch then.
Please don't tell me this is a Transgender male? I am very sceptical?
If you are very skeptical, then you think that there are far more transgender females than there really are. Right-wing media have people believing that 50% of decent female athletes are actually males coming to take girls' opportunities away, based on a handful of instances. It's absurd.
She is a real girl😊our girl...☺
Nice goals but who watches womens hockey🤔 it's so boring
Nice post
Don't watch it yourself then?
@@vaclavbastl500 if I watch one short highlight video it doesn't mean I watch womens boring hockey games
@@Shikoh1 thanks bro
@@perskele8766 But still, the fact is that people obviously watch it, otherwise there would be no views and the tournament wouldn't have any following. You don't have to enjoy it, but the fact you don't doesn't mean other people don't.
Ona je Pálffy,Satan.Hossa , ... v sukni. Skvelé Nelka.
I haven’t seen such brutal destruction of a group of females since a team of 15 year old boys beat a women’s national soccer team.
This chick may be 14 years old, but she plays like a 12 year old Connor Bedard. That’s a huge compliment.
Destruction? They had problem in every match in the group, and finished second.