{"id":91128,"date":"2025-11-29T01:14:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T05:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/keller-plays-after-his-fathers-death-utahs-captain-leads-despite-the-pain\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T01:14:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T05:14:05","slug":"keller-plays-after-his-fathers-death-utahs-captain-leads-despite-the-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nhl\/keller-plays-after-his-fathers-death-utahs-captain-leads-despite-the-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Keller plays after his father&#8217;s death: Utah&#8217;s captain leads despite the pain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Clayton Keller Honored After Playing in Game Following Father&#8217;s Passing<\/h2>\n\n\nThe Utah Mammoth captain, Clayton Keller, participated in Friday night&#8217;s game against the Dallas Stars, which resulted in a 4-3 loss, one day after the unexpected passing of his father.\n\nIn a gesture of tribute, Keller was named the first star of the match.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>He loves his teammates so much, and his teammates love him so much. He drives our passion and our competitiveness every night. He&#8217;s the kind of person who wants to improve every night. We couldn&#8217;t have a better example of a captain.<\/p><cite>Andre Tourigny, Mammoth Coach<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nKeller, 27, has played all 10 seasons of his career in the NHL with the Arizona-Utah franchise and was named captain before last season, when the team moved to Salt Lake City. Selected seventh overall in the 2016 draft and a four-time All-Star, Keller scored 30 goals in each of the last three seasons, including career highs last season with 60 assists and 90 points.\n\nBefore Friday&#8217;s game, Keller was second on the team with 21 points, including eight goals.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Obviously, Kell is our leader in the locker room, but also off the ice. He has done an incredible job leading and guiding us. I have been with him for more than 10 years. It&#8217;s really our turn to support him. It&#8217;s difficult news, and we&#8217;re all trying to deal with it the best way we can.<\/p><cite>Lawson Crouse, Utah Player<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I don&#8217;t know how the young man played, to be honest with you. Much credit to him. My heart is with him and his family.<\/p><cite>Glen Gulutzan, Coach of the Dallas Stars<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clayton Keller Honored After Playing in Game Following Father&#8217;s Passing The Utah Mammoth captain, Clayton Keller, participated in Friday night&#8217;s game against the Dallas Stars, which resulted in a 4-3 loss, one day after the unexpected passing of his father. In a gesture of tribute, Keller was named the first star of the match. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[10836,1169,454,1093],"class_list":{"0":"post-91128","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-clayton-keller","9":"tag-dallas-stars","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-utah-mammoth"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}