# Regina Metzler

Regina Metzler (born 25 October 2005) is a Hungarian ice hockey player and member of the Hungarian national team. She plays college ice hockey with the Mercyhurst Lakers women's ice hockey program in the Atlantic Hockey America (AHA) conference of the NCAA Division I.

## Playing career

Metzler began her senior league career in the Women's Ice Hockey Bundesliga (DEBL) during the 2018–19 season with KMH Budapest II, the women's development team of KMH Budapest. She made her European Women's Hockey League (EWHL) debut with the women's representative team of KMH Budapest during the playoffs of the 2020–21 season and played part of the 2021–22 season with the team. Concurrent to her women's senior league career, she also played with Hungarian men's junior teams, including in the U.-16 I. Csoport with the U16 men's team of Vasas SC. During the 2021–22 season, she spent a month with the Hockey Training Institute (HTI) Stars women's under-20 team, based in Mulmur, Ontario, Canada.

## International play

At the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics, Metzler won a bronze medal in the girls' 3x3 mixed tournament with Team Blue Crystals, an international team of thirteen under-16 players that included Sidre Özer, who became the first Turkish ice hockey player to ever win an Olympic medal at the event.
With the Hungarian national under-18 team, she participated in the Division I Group A tournaments of the IIHF U18 Women's World Championship in 2020 and 2022. Aged fourteen years and two months, she was the youngest Hungarian player at the 2020 tournament and tied Petra Szamosfalvi for third in team scoring with 1 goal and 1 assist. The 2022 tournament was a breakout for Metzler, who led all tournament skaters in goals scored, with 5 goals in three games played, and recorded the tournament’s best face-off percentage, at 75.41%. In recognition of her exemplary play in the 2022 tournament, she was selected as the Best Player of the Hungarian team by the coaches.
She served as captain of the Hungarian team in the girls' ice hockey tournament at the 2022 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival in Kainuu, Finland during March 2022.
Metzler represented Hungary at the IIHF Women's World Championship in 2021 and 2022. Though she was the youngest Hungarian player at the 2022 tournament, aged sixteen years and nine months, she ranked third on the team for points and tied Alexandra Huszák, the Hungarian national team's all-time top scorer, for second on the team in goals, scoring Hungary’s only goal against the United States and slipping one past Anni Keisala of Finland, the 2021 World Championship Best Goaltender, for 2 goals in six games played.

## Career statistics
### Regular season and playoffs

| | | | Regular season | Regular season | Regular season | Regular season | Regular season | Playoffs | Playoffs | Playoffs | Playoffs | Playoffs |
| Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM |
| 2018–19 | KMH Budapest II | DEBL | 6 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019–20 | KMH Budapest II | DEBL | 9 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2019–20 | KMH Budapest | EWHL | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2020–21 | KMH Budapest II | DEBL | 7 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020–21 | KMH Budapest | EWHL | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021–22 | KMH Budapest | EWHL | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2022–23 | OHA Tardiff | OWHL | 42 | 16 | 15 | 31 | 6 | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2023–24 | OHA Mavericks | OWHL | 57 | 16 | 28 | 44 | 8 | – | – | – | – | – |
| OWHL totals | OWHL totals | OWHL totals | 99 | 32 | 43 | 75 | 14 | – | – | – | – | – |

### International

| Year | Team | Event | Result | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM |
| 2020 | Hungary | U18 D1A | 3rd | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 2021 | Hungary | WC | 9th | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | Hungary | U18 D1A | 4th | 3 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 2022 | Hungary | WC | 8th | 6 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2023 | Hungary | U18 D1A | 4th | 5 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 4 |
| 2023 | Hungary | WC | 9th | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 2024 | Hungary | WC D1A | 2nd | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Junior totals | Junior totals | Junior totals | Junior totals | 13 | 10 | 3 | 13 | 4 |
| Senior totals | Senior totals | Senior totals | Senior totals | 19 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 |