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Clayton Basement
Date of birth July 29, 1998
place of birth Chesterfield , Missouri , USA
size 178 cm
Weight 76 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2016 , 1st round, 7th position
Arizona Coyotes
Career stations
2014-2016 USA Hockey National Team Development Program
2016-2017 Boston University
since 2017 Arizona Coyotes

Clayton Keller (born July 29, 1998 in Chesterfield , Missouri ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Arizona Coyotes in the National Hockey League since March 2017 .

Career

Clayton Keller was born in Chesterfield, but grew up in Swansea in the neighboring state of Illinois . In his youth he played for the St. Louis Junior Blues before the attacker moved to the prestigious Shattuck-Saint Mary’s boarding school in 2012 . There he was active in regional high school leagues for two years before he was accepted into the USA Hockey National Team Development Program (NTDP), the central talent factory of the US hockey association USA Hockey , for the 2014/15 season . With the junior selections of the NTDP, Keller took part in the game operations of the United States Hockey League (USHL), the highest junior league in the United States, and represented his home country at the same time on an international level, as the NTDP teams also act as junior national teams act. Over the next two years, the center forward won a silver medal at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2014 as well as a gold and a bronze medal at the U18 World Championships in 2015 and 2016 . After his second year in the NTDP, after which he retired from the program for reasons of age, he chose the Arizona Coyotes in the NHL Entry Draft in 2016 to seventh position.

Then Keller decided to start studying at Boston University , so that from then on he played for their ice hockey team, the Terriers , in Hockey East . As a freshman , he got 45 scorer points in 31 games and was subsequently named Rookie of the Year and elected to the All-Rookie Team and Second All-Star Team of Hockey East. Immediately after the end of the college season, Keller signed an entry-level contract with the Arizona Coyotes in March 2017 and made his debut in the National Hockey League (NHL) a few days later . After the end of the season, Keller also made his debut for the US senior team when he finished fifth with the team at the 2017 World Cup . At the beginning of the 2017/18 season, the attacker established himself in the NHL line-up of the Coyotes, leading his team and all rookies in the league with 15 points in October and was consequently named NHL Rookie of the Month . He received the award again in March 2018, before finally ending the season with 65 points in second place on the rookie scorer list and being elected to the NHL All-Rookie Team . At the same time, he set a new team record for a rookie's points and led the Coyotes in goals, assists (together with Derek Stepan ) and points. He was also nominated together with Mathew Barzal and Brock Boeser as a finalist for the Calder Memorial Trophy as Rookie of the Year, which Barzal subsequently won.

Although Keller was unable to confirm his performance from the previous year in the 2018/19 season, he signed a new eight-year contract in Arizona in August 2019. This should bring him an average annual salary of 7.15 million US dollars.

Achievements and Awards

International

  • 2016 Best assists in the U18 World Junior Championship
  • 2016 Most valuable player in the U18 Junior World Championship
  • 2016 All-Star Team of the U18 Junior World Championship
  • 2017 gold medal at the U20 World Junior Championship
  • 2017 All-Star Team of the U20 Junior World Championship

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2014/15 USA Hockey NTDP USHL 32 14th 23 37 +4 10 - - - - - -
2015/16 USA Hockey NTDP USHL 23 13 24 37 +16 14th - - - - - -
2016/17 Boston University NCAA 31 21st 24 45 +15 26th
2016/17 Arizona Coyotes NHL 3 0 2 2 -3 0 - - - - - -
2017/18 Arizona Coyotes NHL 82 23 42 65 –7 24 - - - - - -
2018/19 Arizona Coyotes NHL 82 14th 33 47 -21 24 - - - - - -
2019/20 Arizona Coyotes NHL 70 17th 27 44 –6 28 9 4th 3 7th +1 0
USHL total 55 27 47 74 +20 24 - - - - - -
NHL overall 237 54 104 158 -37 76 9 4th 3 7th +1 0

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2014 United States WHC Silver medal 6th 6th 7th 13 4th
2015 United States U18 World Cup gold medal 7th 4th 5 9 +7 0
2016 United States U18 World Cup Bronze medal 7th 4th 10 14th +11 2
2017 United States U20 World Cup gold medal 7th 3 8th 11 +3 2
2017 United States WM 5th place 8th 5 2 7th +6 2
2019 United States WM 7th place 8th 2 2 4th −3 0
Juniors overall 27 17th 30th 47 8th
Men overall 16 7th 4th 11 +3 2

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Norm Sanders: Swansea's Clayton Keller makes NHL debut against Blues. bnd.com, March 27, 2017, accessed March 30, 2017 .
  2. ^ Coyotes Sign Keller to Entry-Level Contract. nhl.com, March 26, 2017, accessed March 30, 2017 .
Squad of the Arizona Coyotes in the 2019-20 season
personal data
SURNAME Keller, Clayton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1998
PLACE OF BIRTH Chesterfield , Missouri , United States