HONORS & AWARDS:
Assistant Captain (2025)
Hobey Baker Award Top 10 Finalist (2024, 2025)
AHCA Second Team East All-American (2024)
Walter Brown Award Semifinalist (2024, 2025)
Atlantic Hockey Player of the Year (2024, 2025)
Atlantic Hockey Forward of the Year (2025)
Atlantic Hockey Scoring Champion (2024, 2025)
Atlantic Hockey First Team (2024, 2025)
New England Hockey Writers Association (NEHWA) All-Star (2024, 2025)
NEHWA Paul Hines Most Improved Player Award (2024)
Atlantic Hockey All-Tournament Team (2023, 2025)
Atlantic Hockey Player of the Month (Nov. 2024, Feb. 2025)
Atlantic Hockey Forward of the Week (1/27/25)
Preseason All-Atlantic Hockey (2025)
Atlantic Hockey Preseason Player of the Year (2025)
Crusader of the Week (3/6/23, 2/19/24)
2024-2025 (Senior):
- Played in all 40 games.
- Recorded 54 points on 24 goals and 30 assists.
- Led team and Atlantic Hockey in points, goals, assists, power play goals (10), points per game (1.35).
- 54 points and 30 assists are tied for the most all-time in a single season in the Crusaders' Division I era.
- Picked up at least a point in 27 games and registered 17 multi-point efforts.
- Recorded his 100th career point on a goal in a 4-1 win against Canisius on Feb. 2.
- Finished career with 126 points on 64 goals and 62 assists in 119 games.
- Earned Atlantic Hockey Player of the Year honors, becoming the first player in Atlantic Hockey history to win the award twice.
- Earned the Atlantic Hockey Scoring Championship with 39 points on 19 goals and 20 assists in league play.
- Named to the Atlantic Hockey First Team and earned Forward of the Year honors.
- Named to the Atlantic Hockey All-Tournament Team after recording 11 points on four goals and seven assists.
2023-2024 (Junior):
- Played in all 39 games.
- Recorded 47 points on 19 goals and 28 assists.
- Led team and Atlantic Hockey in points, assists, and plus/minus.
- 47 points are tied for second-most all-time in the Crusaders' Division I era, while his 19 goals and 28 assists are tied for the fourth-highest all-time in each category.
- Finished season +23, tied for the highest mark in program history in the Division I era.
- Picked up at least a point in 31 games and registered 14 multi-point efforts.
- Earned Atlantic Hockey Player of the Year honors, becoming the first Crusader since 2006 to win the award.
- Earned the Atlantic Hockey Scoring Championship with 31 points on 20 goals and 11 assists in league play.
- Named to the Atlantic Hockey First Team.
- Became first Crusader to be named a Hobey Baker Award Top 10 Finalist.
2022-2023 (Sophomore):
- Played in 40 games.
- Recorded 21 goals and four assists for 25 points.
- 21 goals was a team-high and tied for second all-time for goals in a single season.
- Six game-winning goals was a program record, and is tied for tenth all-time for game-winning goals in a career.
- Nine goals during the AHA Tournament was an AHA record.
- Six game goal streak from March 3 - March 12 tied for longest all-time in program history.
- Recorded first collegiate goal and points at AIC (Oct. 18).
- Became 26th Crusader to post a hat trick in program history (Oct. 18 vs AIC).
BEFORE HOLY CROSS:
- Transfer from Quinnipiac University (ECAC).
- Played four seasons of varsity hockey for Don Bosco Prep.
- Captained team during the 2019 season.
- Team won the New York State Championship during the 2019 season.
- Also played club hockey for the Jersey Hitmen (NCDC).
- The team won the League Championship in 2021.
PERSONAL:
- Son of Terence and Laura McLinskey.
- Has two siblings, Ryan and Grace.
- Father, Terence, played soccer at Army West Point.
- Brother, Ryan, played baseball at Seton Hall from 2018 to 2022 and now plays for Notre Dame.
- Majoring in Economics.
