Jay Leach Bio, Family, Career, Wife, Net Worth, Metrics

Jay Leach is a former American ice hockey player who has now made a career as a head coach. Previously, he played with the Albany Devils professional ice hockey team as captain. In 2014, he started working as an assistant coach and later became the head coach of the P-Bruins ahead of the 2017-18 season.

Additionally, he is well known as the ex-husband of an American sportscaster, Catherine Tappen . She became known for covering the National Hockey League for the NBC group. Additionally, she has worked in journalism for many years and currently covers stories for NHL Live and NHL Overtime. Scroll to find out more about the former player.

JAY LEACH: BIO, FAMILY, CAREER

The head coach was born on September 2, 1979 in Victoria, Syracuse, New York, United States. He has not revealed any information about his parents or siblings to the media. However, he is the nephew of former NHL forward Stephen Leach and University of Maine hockey coach Jay Leach. He has American nationality and belongs to the white ethnicity which follows Christianity.

He started his career as an ice hockey player and was drafted for the first time in the fifth round by the Phoenix Coyotes. However, he spent most of his years playing in minor hockey leagues. Later, on September 26, 2003, signed as a free agent with the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League. After playing the 2005-06 season, he signed with the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2007 and 2007-08, but spent most of the season in the AHL.

He then traded to the Anaheim Ducks in 2008 and signed with the New Jersey Devils over the summer. In 2011, he was traded to the New Jersey Devils after playing with teams like the San Jose Sharks and Worcester Sharks. In 2014, he started his career as an assistant coach with Adler Mannheim of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. Then he was named assistant coach to Mike Sulivan in 2015.

In December 2015, he was named interim head coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins for one season. Eventually, he joined the Providence Bruins as an assistant coach in August 2016. Prior to the 2017–18 season, he was promoted to head coach of the P-Bruins.

JAY LEACH: PERSONAL LIFE AND WIFE

Talking about his love life, as mentioned earlier, he was married to an NBC sports reporter, Kathryn Tappen. They exchanged vows in July 2009 after dating for a long time at New Castle Congregational Church. They reported meeting for the first time while his ex-wife was covering an NHL game.

They later speculated a divorce in 2015 after Tappen was seen without her wedding ring. Since their separation, Leach avoids the media as much as possible and prefers to live a low-key life away from the media.

JAY LEACH: NET WORTH AND SOCIAL MEDIA PROFILES

When it comes to his earnings, he has maintained a six figure figure in his coaching career. Hence, he has an estimated net worth of over $800,000 but has not revealed any information about his exact earnings. On the other hand, his ex-wife Kathryn has an estimated net worth of $4 million from her wrestling career.

Unlike his ex-wife, he is not available on different social media platforms like Instagram and Twitter. It seems that he doesn’t like to flaunt his daily lifestyle through these social networking sites.

JAY LEACH: BODY MEASUREMENTS

The handsome man has a well-groomed body which stands at 6 feet 4 inches or 1.93 meters. His body weighs 98 kg with unknown measurements. He has brown hair color with brown eye color.