{"id":315235,"date":"2025-11-28T22:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T22:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/315235\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T22:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T22:52:09","slug":"mammoths-clayton-keller-will-play-vs-stars-following-fathers-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/315235\/","title":{"rendered":"Mammoth&#8217;s Clayton Keller will play vs. Stars following father&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DALLAS \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/utah-mammoth\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"utah-mammoth\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Utah Mammoth<\/a> captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/clayton-keller\/00cc69f0-afdf-4259-8712-2bcb6ca1d12f\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"00cc69f0-afdf-4259-8712-2bcb6ca1d12f\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Clayton Keller<\/a> will play in Friday night\u2019s game against the Dallas Stars in the wake of his father\u2019s unexpected death the night before.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClayton wants to play and be with the team,\u201d Mammoth coach Andre Tournigny said early Friday. \u201cWe want to express our condolences to the family, Clayton, his mom (Kelley), his brother (Jake). It\u2019s a tough time for the family, and we will support him in any way we can. We and the family ask everyone to respect their privacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old Keller has played all 10 of his NHL seasons with the Arizona-Utah franchise and was named captain before last season, when the club moved to Salt Lake City. The seventh overall pick in the 2016 draft and four-time All-Star was a 30-goal scorer each of the past three seasons, including career highs last season with 60 assists and 90 points. He went into Friday\u2019s game second on the club with 21 points, including eight goals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s nothing really you can say or do in that moment but be there,\u201d Tourigny said. \u201cBig thing for us is to be there to support him. Loyalty is when people need you to be there, it\u2019s not when you pick and choose. In this tough time, we want to make sure we show up for (Keller) and his family.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS \u2014 Utah Mammoth captain Clayton Keller will play in Friday night\u2019s game against the Dallas Stars in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-315235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}