{"id":91293,"date":"2025-11-29T05:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T09:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/keller-plays-after-family-loss-utah-mammoth-honors-their-captain\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T05:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T09:36:09","slug":"keller-plays-after-family-loss-utah-mammoth-honors-their-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nhl\/keller-plays-after-family-loss-utah-mammoth-honors-their-captain\/","title":{"rendered":"Keller Plays After Family Loss: Utah Mammoth Honors Their Captain"},"content":{"rendered":"DALLAS &#8211; Clayton Keller, captain of the Utah Mammoth, played in the 4-3 loss to the Dallas Stars on Friday night, a day after the unexpected passing of his father.\n\nAs a tribute, Keller was named the first star of the match.\n\n\u201cHe loves his teammates a lot and his teammates love him a lot,\u201d said Mammoth coach Andre Tourigny. \u201cHe drives our passion and our competitiveness every night. He\u2019s the type of person who wants to be better every night. We can\u2019t have a better example of a captain.\u201d\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 club moved to Salt Lake City. The seventh pick of the 2016 draft and a four-time All-Star, he scored 30 goals in each of the last three seasons, including career highs last season with 60 assists and 90 points.\n\nIn Friday&#8217;s match, he was the club&#8217;s second-highest scorer with 21 points, including eight goals.\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 track. He has done an incredible job leading and guiding us,&#8221; said Lawson Crouse, from Utah. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been with him for over 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<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, Dallas coach<\/cite><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DALLAS &#8211; Clayton Keller, captain of the Utah Mammoth, played in the 4-3 loss to the Dallas Stars on Friday night, a day after the unexpected passing of his father. As a tribute, Keller was named the first star of the match. \u201cHe loves his teammates a lot and his teammates love him a lot,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[10836,1169,454,1093],"class_list":{"0":"post-91293","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\/91293","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=91293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}