Linden Alger

Position:
Defenseman
Height:
6-3
Weight:
214
Class:
Graduate Student
Hometown:
Centerville, Mass.
Prev School:
Youngstown (USHL)

AS A GRADUATE STUDENT IN 2024-25: One of 10 players to appear in all 40 games ... Logged a career best 10 points on three goals and seven assists and was +5 with two multi-point contests ... Registered an assist in the Fargo Regional Final against Western Michigan (3/29) ... Collected an assist vs. #1 Boston College (2/15) ... Logged a pair of assists vs. Alaska (1/25) ... Posted first career multi-point game with two assists vs. Harvard (11/22) ... Scored opening goal at #10/9 Providence (11/16) ... Collected an assist at Vermont (11/8) ... Netted second goal of the year at UConn (10/26) ... Scored first goal of the season vs. Sacred Heart (10/18) ... Played in 35 games and posted four points on two goals and two assists … Blocked 29 shots and was +5 … Logged an assist vs. Merrimack (1/12) to cap a three-game point streak. ... Collected first career assist vs. UConn (1/5) ... Netted second goal of the season vs. Clarkson (12/30) ... Scored second career goal at #20 Harvard (11/24).

AS A SENIOR IN 2023-24: Played in 35 games and posted four points on two goals and two assists … Blocked 29 shots and was +5 … Logged an assist vs. Merrimack (1/12) to cap a three-game point streak. ... Collected first career assist vs. UConn (1/5) ... Netted second goal of the season vs. Clarkson (12/30) ... Scored second career goal at #20 Harvard (11/24).

AS A JUNIOR IN 2022-23: Appeared in 11 games before being sidelined with an injury in late November … Had nine blocks and was +1 … Scored first collegiate goal vs. Union (10/21).

AS A SOPHOMORE IN 2021-22: Appeared in 13 games including six Hockey East contests and registered one shot on goal.

AS A FRESHMAN IN 2020-21: Appeared in seven games and had an even plus-minus rating … Made collegiate debut vs. UConn (11/20), paired with classmate Aaron Bohlinger.

BEFORE UMASS: Spent the 2019-20 season with the Youngstown Phantoms in the USHL … Logged six points on two goals and four assists over 48 games … Played three years (2016-19) with the Boston Jr. Bandits … In 2018-19 with the Jr. Bandits, registered 19 points (4g, 15a) in 50 contests and was tabbed an NCDC All-Star.

PERSONAL: Born Linden Neil Alger on April 9, 2000 in Boston, Mass. … Son of Richard and Charlene Alger … Has three siblings: Renna, Neely and Grady … Father, Richard, played college hockey at UMass and Boston University … 2018 Graduate of Barnstable High School ... Earned undergraduate degree in Management (BBA) Economics and Sport Management (BS) ... Working towards a certificate in Business Analytics.