Alina Muller

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Professional Ice Hockey Player

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Essentials

Full name
Alina Muller
Years active
2013–present
Position
Forward
Nationality
Swiss
Hometown
Lengnau, Switzerland
Agent
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alina's story

Alina Müller's hockey life began because she could not see over the boards. She was six years old when her father lifted her high enough to watch a group of children racing across the ice near their home in Winterthur, Switzerland. "I want to do that," she said. Less than a decade later, she scored the goal that secured Switzerland's first Olympic women's hockey medal at the 2014 Sochi Games and became, at fifteen, the youngest hockey player of any gender to win an Olympic medal. Twelve years after that, at the 2026 Milan Games, she scored another overtime goal to give Switzerland another bronze. Afterward, she could barely reconstruct the moment. Her gloves and helmet were suddenly in the air, and her teammates were rushing toward her. The teenager who had once been asked to carry a country's hopes had grown into the woman her teammates trusted to finish the story.

She arrived at Northeastern in 2017 in a second language, in a country not her own, with no template for what she was about to do. She left as the leading scorer in NCAA women's hockey history, finishing with 316 points, a record that still stands. What made her dangerous was not speed or size but something harder to defend: an instinct for space and timing, for finding the seam in a defense before it closed. She was a distributor as much as a finisher, the kind of forward who made everyone around her better while quietly accumulating a record no one had touched.

Selected third overall by Boston in the inaugural 2023 PWHL Draft, she became the first international player ever chosen in the league's history. With the Fleet she became the first international player to reach 50 career PWHL points, set the single-season assists record with 17, and left as the franchise's all-time leading scorer. She has signed a three-year contract with expansion club PWHL Hamilton, where she will chase her first Walter Cup. She is in her mid-twenties. The records she is still building may take a generation to untangle.

Timeline

8 milestones

2014

Wins Olympic bronze with Switzerland at age 15, becoming the youngest player in Olympic ice hockey history to win an Olympic medal

2018

Leads the Winter Olympics in scoring with 10 points and is named the tournament's Best Forward

2021

Becomes the first player in Northeastern University history to earn First-Team All-American honors

2023

Graduates as Northeastern University's all-time leader in career points, assists, and game-winning goals

2023

Selected third overall by the Boston Fleet in the inaugural PWHL Draft, becoming the first European player drafted in league history

2024

Wins bronze with Switzerland at the IIHF Women's World Championship

2024

Named to the PWHL All-Rookie Team

2026

Signs a three-year contract with PWHL Hamilton ahead of the 2026–27 season

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Awards/Honors

INDIVIDUAL AWARDS

2016, 2017IIHF U18 Women's World Championship Silver Medal
2018Olympic Bronze Medal
2019NCAA Frozen Four Most Outstanding Player
2019, 2024NCAA National Champion
2021, 2022, 2023NCAA First-Team All-American
2022NCAA Hockey East Player of the Year
2022NCAA Hockey East Scoring Champion
2024Hockey East Tournament Most Valuable Player
2024NCAA Frozen Four All-Tournament Team
2025IIHF Women's World Championship Bronze Medal

LEGACY

2024Named to the NCAA Women's Ice Hockey 25th Anniversary All-Time Team

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