"Keith Allain" is an United States/American ice hockey coach. He is currently the head coach of the Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey team. He took over the program following Tim Taylor (ice hockey coach)/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.

Allian served as an assistant coach with the United States men's national ice hockey team at the Ice hockey at the 1992 Winter Olympics/1992 and Ice hockey at the 2006 Winter Olympics/2006 Winter Olympics.

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It is a tremendous honor and a great responsibility to follow in Tim Taylor's footsteps as head hockey coach at Yale. His impact on Yale, Yale Hockey, and me personally has been profound. I enthusiastically embrace the challenge of building upon his legacy while taking the Yale Hockey program to the next level.

I have enjoyed my time in St. Louis and wish the organization the best of luck in the future.

My ultimate goal is to make this the destination of choice for elite athletes that are able to get into Ivy League schools. That's a pretty lofty goal and it's going to take a lot of time and work.

Every day you come to practice you can learn something from [NHL head coaches], and I think I've been doing that for the last 13 years.

I want to play an upbeat style with skill and energy. I think hockey needs to be fun for the players. You want to create an environment that allows that to happen.