| Birth Date: | 31 August 1999 |
| Birth Place: | McHenry, Illinois, U.S. |
| Height Ft: | 5 |
| Height In: | 9 |
| Position: | Forward |
| Shoots: | Right |
| League: | PWHL |
| Team: | Boston Fleet |
| Former Teams: | Leksands IF |
| Sex: | f |
| Career Start: | 2023 |
Shay Maloney (born August 31, 1999) is an American professional ice hockey forward for the Boston Fleet of the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL). She played college ice hockey at Brown and Quinnipiac and for Leksands IF in the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL).
Maloney played at Brown University from 2018 to 2022 and served as captain for the 2021-22 season. The 2020-21 season was canceled due to COVID-19. She was named the team's most valuable player in all three of her seasons. Her senior year, she scored a then-career-high of 19 points and earned an Honorable Mention All-Ivy.[1]
She played her final year of eligibility at Quinnipiac, where she scored a career-high 15 goals and 31 points in forty games, second on the team. Quinnipiac awarded her the Most Valuable Player award.[2]
After college, Maloney played for Leksands IF in the Swedish Women's Hockey League. She scored twenty points in thirty-six games for the Swedish club in her first season.[3] Playing in Sweden, Maloney experienced checking as an adult for the first time and improved her physical game.[4]
Maloney was selected by the Boston Fleet in the sixth round, 34th overall, in the 2024 PWHL Draft. She was the first Brown alumni to be drafted into the PWHL. She was named to Boston's 2024-25 opening-day roster as a depth forward.[5]
Maloney played in youth boys hockey leagues from ages 4 to 14. Her older brother Michael also played hockey and competed for the Brown men's hockey team while Maloney was on the women's team.
| Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||
| 2018–19 | Brown University | ECAC | 28 | 7 | 11 | 18 | 18 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2019–20 | Brown University | ECAC | 29 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2021–22 | Brown University | ECAC | 29 | 11 | 8 | 19 | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2022–23 | Quinnipiac University | ECAC | 34 | 5 | 16 | 21 | 12 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2023–24 | Leksands IF | SDHL | 36 | 9 | 11 | 20 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| SDHL totals | 36 | 9 | 11 | 20 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||