| Position: | Defense |
| Shoots: | Right |
| Height Ft: | 5 |
| Height In: | 11 |
| Weight Lb: | 185 |
| Played For: | Los Angeles Kings |
| Birth Date: | November 18, 1965 |
| Draft: | Undrafted |
| Birth Place: | Burlington, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Career Start: | 1993 |
| Career End: | 2002 |
Robert Gould Jay (born November 18, 1965) is an American former professional ice hockey player and coach. He appeared in three games for the Los Angeles Kings in the National Hockey League (NHL) during the 1993–94 season, and played nine seasons in the International Hockey League (IHL) between 1990 and 1999.
After his playing career ended, Jay turned to coaching, most notably as an assistant to Ted Donato at Harvard University from 2004 to 2007 and again from 2009 to 2011.[1] He has been an assistant coach for the United States women's national ice hockey team through several campaigns[2] including the Sochi Olympics where the team won a silver medal.[3] Jay was also head coach for the Boston Pride of the National Women's Hockey League from 2015 to 2017.[4] [5]
| Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Team | League | GP | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | |||||
| 1984–85 | Merrimack College | ECAC 2 | 23 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 20 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1985–86 | Merrimack College | ECAC 2 | 30 | 6 | 18 | 24 | 33 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1986–87 | Merrimack College | ECAC 2 | 36 | 4 | 21 | 25 | 42 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1987–88 | Merrimack College | ECAC 2 | 27 | 4 | 19 | 23 | 20 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1988–89 | Halmstad HK | SWE-4 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1990–91 | Fort Wayne Komets | IHL | 40 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 24 | 14 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 16 | ||
| 1991–92 | Fort Wayne Komets | IHL | 76 | 1 | 19 | 20 | 119 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | ||
| 1992–93 | Fort Wayne Komets | IHL | 78 | 5 | 21 | 26 | 100 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 14 | ||
| 1993–94 | Los Angeles Kings | NHL | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1993–94 | Phoenix Roadrunners | IHL | 65 | 7 | 15 | 22 | 54 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1994–95 | Detroit Vipers | IHL | 57 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 51 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | ||
| 1995–96 | Detroit Vipers | IHL | 17 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 22 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 16 | ||
| 1996–97 | Detroit Vipers | IHL | 71 | 3 | 11 | 14 | 44 | 21 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 21 | ||
| 1997–98 | Detroit Vipers | IHL | 66 | 5 | 12 | 17 | 88 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | ||
| 1998–99 | Detroit Vipers | IHL | 44 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 51 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2001–02 | Manchester Monarchs | AHL | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| IHL totals | 514 | 28 | 99 | 127 | 553 | 69 | 2 | 12 | 14 | 89 | ||||
| NHL totals | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||