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Keith Allain ‘80, Yale’s Malcolm G. Chace Head Coach of Hockey, won his 70th game in four seasons as leader of the Bulldogs on Feb. 26 at Princeton. Only four other Yale hockey head coaches have more wins, and none reached the 70-win mark faster than Allain. The former Yale goalie has led the Blue to three Ivy League titles, two ECAC regular season championships and two (2009, 2010) NCAA Tournament appearances. No Division I team has a better win percentage (.700) than the Elis over the last two seasons.
Allain's 2009-10 squad became Yale's first to take consecutive conference titles and have 20-win seasons. The Elis, who finished with a No. 5 ranking, capped it off with the greatest win in school history, a 3-2 decision against No. 5 North Dakota in the NCAA Northeast Regional at Worcester, Mass., on March 27.
He just completed his 11th overall year at Yale: four as a student, three as an assistant coach in the early 1980s and four as head coach with an overall record of 72-49-12. His teams are 9-7 in the post season.
In 2008-09 Allain earned the Tim Taylor Award as the ECAC Hockey Coach of the Year by leading Yale to the best season in the program’s history. A school-record 24 wins, Yale’s first ECAC Tournament Championship and a school-best No. 5 national ranking were a few reasons why the coaches picked him. College Hockey News named him 2008-09 national coach of the year.
In his first year, Allain's squad won a 2007 Ivy League title, improved the team's record from the previous year and helped produce ECAC Hockey's co-Rookie of the Year, Sean Backman.
His second season was better. Allain doubled his Yale win total as the Bulldogs finished 16-14-4. More importantly, Yale became a legitimate post-season contender after sweeping Rensselaer in a first-round playoff series before pushing 2008 ECAC Hockey Champion Princeton to a third quarterfinal game on the road.
Allain, a former NHL and Olympics assistant, was named the 11th head coach of the Yale men's ice hockey program on April 15, 2006. Allain is the second Yale graduate to take the position and the first since Holcomb York '17 led the Bulldogs from 1930 to 1938 (Lawrence M. Noble '27 coached the Elis from 1928 to 1930).
The starting goalie on four Bulldog squads, Allain recorded the second-most (31) wins for a Yale netminder and ranks third at the school with 2,337 career saves. He owns four of the top 10 Yale single-game save totals, including 55 stops in a 7-3 loss at Minnesota on Dec. 28, 1978.
Allain, the goalie coach for the St. Louis Blues from 1998 to 2006, served as assistant coach for the 2006 U.S. Olympic Team in Italy. He also assisted with the 2005 and 2006 U.S. National Team at the world championships. Under Allain's guidance, St. Louis netminders gave up the fewest goals in the NHL in 1999-2000, claiming the William M. Jennings Trophy. That season the Blues captured the President's Trophy for the best regular-season record in the league.
His third stint as head coach of the U.S. Junior National Team will be this December at the 2011 IIHF World Junior Championships in Buffalo. Allain, tabbed last spring for that post, had the same honor in 2001 and 2002.
His professional coaching experience includes serving as a scout for the NHL's Nashville Predators in 1997-98 and a four-year (1993-97) stint as an assistant coach for the Washington Capitals, where he helped Jim Carey win the 1996 Vezina Trophy. His extensive international coaching career includes serving as an assistant coach for the United States team that captured the championship of the inaugural World Cup of Hockey in 1996 while registering a 6-1-0 overall mark. He returned to the World Cup of Hockey with the U.S. in 2004 as goaltending coach. The Bulldog mentor was also an assistant coach for the 1992 U.S. Olympic Men's Ice Hockey Team (current Harvard head coach Ted Donato skated for him), which placed fourth in Albertville, France with a 5-2-1 record. His involvement with USA Hockey includes guiding the U.S. as head coach at the 2001 and 2002 IIHF World Junior Championships.
The current Yale head coach replaced his original mentor, Tim Taylor (1976-2006), whose first team included Allain. Taylor hired Allain to be his assistant from 1982 to 1985 before the prized pupil left the collegiate game to coach and scout in Sweden.
Allain, a Worcester, Mass., native who has six brothers (five of them played college hockey), played two years (1980-82) of professional hockey in Sweden before suffering a career-ending injury. He and his wife, Mi, have three children: Josefine, Julia and Niklas.
ALLAIN TIMELINE
YEARS: Position/Team
1976-80: Attended Yale
1980-81: Professional player in Sweden
1982-85: Yale Assistant Coach
1985-86: Professional player/coach in Sweden
1986-89: Worked in the investment business
1989-91: Head Coach Jarfalla Hockey Club Sweden
1989-93: European Scout for Washington Capitals
1989-94: Assistant Coach Washington Capitals
1997-98:Professional Scout for Nashville Predators
1998-06: Assistant Coach St. Louis Blues
ALLAIN'S INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE
Years: Position, Team, Tournament
2006: Assistant, U.S. National, World Championships
2006: Assistant, U.S. National, Olympic Games
2005: Assistant, U.S. National, World Championships
2004: Goalie, U.S. National, World Cup
2002: Head, U.S. National, Jr., World Champ. (4-1-2)
2001: Head, U.S. National Jr., World Champ. (5-2)
1996: Assistant, U.S. National, World Cup (1st)
1995: Head, U.S. National 17, Mexico Cup (2nd)
1994: Head, U.S. National 17, Pacific Cup (2nd)
1991-92: Assistant, U.S. National, Olympic Games
1990: Assistant, U.S. National 17, Summer Challenge
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Kyle Wallack is the Yale assistant coach logging the most miles recruiting future Bulldogs. He has worked with two teams that have appeared in the NCAA Tournament. Wallack came to Yale in June of 2006 after working on the Holy Cross coaching staff for two seasons. He helped the Crusaders register a 4-3 overtime upset of Minnesota at the 2006 NCAA West Regional. That capped a 27-10-3 campaign and helped Holy Cross finish No. 14 in the final USA Today Poll. The young Crusader assistant served as recruiting coordinator while working with the forwards. Before Holy Cross, Wallack spent two seasons assisting the University of Connecticut men's squad (2002-04) where he was recruiting coordinator. He also mentored the goalies, handled scouting reports, coordinated video operations, managed practices and helped with alumni relations. Wallack's goaltending protégés include Atlantic Hockey Goalie of the Year Tony Quesada (Holy Cross) signed with Minnesota Wild as free agent and UConn's Atlantic Hockey all-star Scott Tomes (All-Rookie Team) and Quinnipiac's Jamie Holden (Goalie of the Year). He also supervised Quinnipiac's Justin Eddy, who signed as a free-agent with the Washington Capitals. Wallack served as an assistant coach at Quinnipiac for three seasons (1999-02) where he helped the Bobcats to a MAAC Championship and an NCAA Tournament appearance. Wallack spent single seasons at Nichols College (1998-99) and the University of Delaware (1997-98) as an assistant coach. The newest of the Yale coaches, Wallack also has experience coaching with the U.S. National Program. He earned a gold medal at the 2006 Three Nations Tournament in Rochester, while getting a silver at the 2007 Five Nations Tournament in Strakonice Czeck Republic. He has coached at the Select 16 Festival the last four summers. A four-year starting goaltender and senior captain at Springfield College, Wallack was team MVP, All-NECHA (1995-97), Johnson and Wales All-Tournament (1996-97) and NECHA All-Tournament (1995-96). Wallack, while playing at Springfield, coached the New England Junior "A" Falcons to an EJHL Championship. Wallack earned a master's degree in sport management from Connecticut in 2004.
Contact Kyle Wallack: kyle.wallack@yale.edu
(203) 432-1477
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Dan Muse, an assistant at Sacred Heart University in 2008-09, begins his first year as assistant coach for the Yale men's ice hockey program.
Muse, a 2005 Stonehill College graduate, was also an assistant at Williams (Mass.) College from 2007-2008 and at Milton (Mass.) Academy from 2005-2007.
At Sacred Heart and Williams, he helped prepare and execute training and practice plans and worked primarily with forwards. He also helped develop scouting reports and break down video segments using Gamebreaker software while assisting with recruiting efforts. Muse has also coached at the Massachusetts Hockey Satellite Training Program and at USA Hockey's Select 14 Development Camps (2006-2008) and USA Select 16 Camp (2009) as well as several other youth camps and training programs throughout the Bay State.
Muse, who earned a B.A. in criminal justice at Stonehill, served as assistant captain for the Chieftains his senior year and received the team's most improved player award in 2003. He was named to multiple ECAC Northeast/ Northeast-10 All-Academic Hockey Teams and is a recipient of the Canton (Mass.) High School Hockey Distinguished Alumni Award (2007).
The new Yale coach and his wife, Maureen, reside in Orange.
Dan Muse Contact Information: daniel.muse@yale.edu
(203) 314.7067
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Eric Lind, a 2001 University of New Hampshire graduate and
former Wildcat hockey player, began as a Yale assistant during the
2006-07 season. The 1997 Pittsburgh Penguins draft pick played
seven seasons of professional (IHL,ECHL, UHL, CHL, EIHL) hockey,
including some as captain and player/coach, before he began
coaching full-time. During his tenure with Greenville Grrrowl he
captained them to a Kelly Cup Championship. Lind has been coaching
hockey for 12 years and has a master level coaching certification
from USA Hockey. He is the head of player development for the North
American Hockey School and is regarded as a premiere power-skating
instructor who is highly respected by the many NHL, AHL, ECHL and
NCAA Division I players he works with. Over the past five years,
Lind has coached elite teams in organization such as Mid-Fairfield,
Greenwich Blues and Ridgefield Youth Hockey. Eric was a FCIAC MVP
his sophomore year at New Canaan (Conn.) High School before
becoming a two-time New England Prep Player of the Year at Avon Old
Farms. He made two NCAA Frozen Four appearances with UNH and played
for Team USA's U16 and U17 squads at the World Junior Friendship
Series.
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Joe Maher, a former hockey head coach and player and a sports
physiologist, was named Yale's assistant strength &
conditioning coach in August of 2007 after serving in a similar
role at the University of Richmond for two years. Maher was the
assistant S&C coach at Richmond from 2005 to 2007 while also
serving as head coach of the U-16AA Richmond Royals hockey club.
His Richmond football squad won an Atlantic-10 Championship under
his watch. Prior to that, he was a graduate assistant in the
Kinesiology Department at Louisiana State University and a coach at
the USA Weightlifting Development Center in Shreveport, La., from
2004 to 2005. Maher also served as assistant sports physiologist at
the U.S. Olympic Center's Athlete Performance Laboratory. He played
hockey at the University of Rhode Island and coached and competed
in 2005 Collegiate National Weightlifting Championships. In
addition, Maher, who has authored numerous articles on S&C and
owns a masters in education, coached and co-directed the 2004
American Open Championships, co-directed the 2005 Pan-American
Championships and coached the 2005 Junior National Championships.
His certifications include: Strength and Conditioning Specialist
(National Strength and Conditioning Association); Weightlifting
Senior Coach-In Process (USA Weightlifting); First Aid, CPR, AED
(American Red Cross); USA Hockey Level 3 (In-Process of Level 4).
