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Alina Müller is one of the best Swiss ice hockey players and is a fixture and top performer in the national team.
Nicole VandenbrouckIce hockey reporter
Alina Müller collects awards like other players scorer points. In her portrait on the Northeastern University team homepage, 28 entries can be found under the heading “Awards and Honors”. The 24-year-old, who is playing in Boston in her fifth season, keeps setting new records.
The next record was only due a few days ago. Mueller is the new all-time leader of the collegiate league’s Hockey East Division. The striker scored her 168th point in the 4-0 win – her twelfth success in a row! – of their Huskies against Holy Cross. The Winterthur native trumped the previous record holder, US national player and Olympic champion Kendall Coyne Schofield (30), who played for Northeastern University from 2011 to 2016, by one point. And: The last qualifying game of their conference is still on Thursday – so more scorer points are possible.
Team performance is the most important thing for Müller
For Müller, this record is something special because the ranking is full of today’s North American superstars. “That’s why it was a special moment when I broke this record,” says Müller, who only found out about this all-time ranking when she was five points behind Coyne Schofield. “Maybe that was for the best, so I didn’t think too much about it.” After this performance in the last game, it is no surprise that the goal-getter was voted “Player of the Week”.
Personally, however, the star striker focuses on team performance and is full of anticipation for the playoffs with the Huskies. “But when a lot of people congratulated me on this record and I got a lot of good news, I realized that it’s important.”
Müller booked these 168 points in the games in her Hockey East Conference alone, not counting the games in the cross-divisional playoffs. Overall, the exceptional striker already has 233 points (88 goals/145 assists) on her account for the Huskies. Müller could still chase this record, which Kendall Coyne Schofield still holds with 249 points (141/108), this last season.
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The Switzerland international already holds the record for all-time assists at Hockey East and all-time record for most assists at Northeastern University. She broke this mark last October with her 85th assist at the time.
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After Lara Stalder, Alina Müller is the second Swiss international to hold the points record in a women’s league. The 28-year-old Stalder, who will be playing for EVZ next season, set the season record in Sweden’s highest women’s league SDHL last season with 89 points (34 goals/55 assists). The Brynäs striker thus surpassed her record from the previous year by seven points.
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