| Keith Allain | |
| Current Title: | Head coach |
| Current Team: | Yale Bulldogs |
| Current Conference: | ECAC |
| Birth Date: | 26 September 1958 |
| Birth Place: | Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Alma Mater: | Yale University |
| Player Years1: | 1976–80 |
| Player Team1: | Yale Bulldogs |
| Player Years2: | 1980–82 |
| Player Team2: | Väsby IK |
| Player Positions: | Goaltender |
| Coach Years1: | 1984–85 |
| Coach Team1: | Yale Bulldogs (Assistant) |
| Coach Years2: | 1993–1997 |
| Coach Team2: | Washington Capitals (Assistant) |
| Coach Years3: | 2002–2003 |
| Coach Team3: | Worcester IceCats (Goalie Coach) |
| Coach Years4: | 2003 |
| Coach Team4: | St. Louis Blues (Goalie Coach) |
| Coach Years5: | 2003–2005 |
| Coach Team5: | Worcester IceCats (Goalie Coach) |
| Coach Years6: | 2005–2006 |
| Coach Team6: | St. Louis Blues (Goalie Coach) |
| Coach Years7: | 2006–present |
| Coach Team7: | Yale Bulldogs |
| Overall Record: | 276–233–51 |
| Tournament Record: | 6–5 |
| Championships: | 2009 ECAC Champion 2009 ECAC Tournament champion 2010 ECAC Champion 2011 ECAC tournament champion 2013 NCAA National Champion 7× Ivy League Champion (2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016) |
| Awards: | 2009 Tim Taylor Award 2× Ivy League Coach of the Year (2015, 2016) |
| Coaching Records: | Most wins in one season in Yale history (28) |
Keith Allain (born September 26, 1958) is an American ice hockey coach. He is currently the head coach of the Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey team.[1] He took over the program following Tim Taylor in 2006. In 2013, he led Yale to its first ever NCAA men's ice hockey National Championship.
Allain, who played as a goaltender with the Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey team, was an assistant coach in the National Hockey League with the Washington Capitals from 1993–1997, and also served as the goaltending coach for the St. Louis Blues from 1998 to 2006.[2]
Allain served as an assistant coach with the United States men's national ice hockey team at the 1992, 2006, and 2018 Winter Olympics.
Allain led teams have struggled against Quinnipiac since the NCAA championship game in 2013, compiling a record of 0-20-3. Yale's lone victory during this span came when Allain was in South Korea for the 2018 Winter Olympics.
| Regular season | Postseason | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Team | League | GP | A | PIM | GAA | SV% | GP | A | PIM | GAA | SV% | ||
| 1976–77 | Yale Bulldogs | ECAC Hockey | 23 | 0 | 8 | 5.50 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1977–78 | Yale Bulldogs | ECAC Hockey | 20 | 0 | 0 | 4.38 | .863 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1978–79 | Yale Bulldogs | ECAC Hockey | 16 | 0 | 0 | 4.56 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1979–80 | Yale Bulldogs | ECAC Hockey | 16 | 0 | 0 | 4.50 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| NCAA totals | 39 | 0 | 8 | 4.79 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||