Utah Mammoth · #9 · Right wing

Clayton Keller

Age 28 · Shoots left · 5′10″ · 175 lb · Born Chesterfield, Missouri, USA

Drafted 2016, #7 overall by ARI

Next game · Thu 8 Octat Boston · 7:00 PM ET2 P in the last 2 vs BOS
90+ points 46%Art Ross Trophy 0.5%Markets →
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Games42026-27 Small sample
Goals1T-3rd on UTA
Assists61st on UTA
Points7T-1st on UTA
P / GP1.75T-14th in the NHL
Shots119.1% shooting
TOI / GP17:476th on UTA

2025-262025-26: 82 games, 26-62-88, 1.07 points per game Season detail →

Clayton Keller has 7 points in 4 games of 2026-27, after 88 points in 82 games last season.

This season

2026-27 regular season · 4 games Small sample
2026-27 · The season

7 points in 4 games for the 2nd-placed Utah

Where he ranks among NHL forwards with 2+ games, then his scoring rate through the season in ten-game blocks.

Percentile among NHL forwards

PP points599th
Assists / 605.0698th
Points / GP1.7596th
Shots / GP2.7587th
Blocked shots383rd
Penalty differential+180th
Ice time17:4776th
Goals / 600.8454th
Shooting %9.1%52nd
Takeaways027th
Hits119th

Bars show the percentile against 383 forwards with 2+ games in 2026-27; the thin line marks the league median.

Points per game · rolling blocks

1.81.81–4

Dashed line: season average (1.8). Dark blocks sit at or above it.

Points7T-1st on UTA
Points per game1.75T-14th in NHL
Goals1T-67th in NHL
Assists61st on UTA
Shooting %9.1%Below avg (11.6%)
Ice time17:476th on UTA
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Ice time and special teams

A top-six forward who runs the first power play

Even-strength, power-play and shorthanded minutes, and how much of Utah's power play went through him.

Ice time by strength

Even strength14:21
Power play3:26
Shorthanded0:01
Total17:47

20.8 shifts a game, averaging 51 seconds each.

Special teams

PP goals1T-3rd on UTA
PP assists4T-1st on UTA
PP points52nd on UTA · T-2nd NHL
SH goals0
PP points / 6021.873rd on UTA

Power-play involvement

Goals on the PP8Utah total
Involved in5goals or assists
Share62.5%of every UTA PPG
PP TOI share82.3%of UTA PP time

Team power-play goals from the season team report; involvement is his power-play points.


Scoring detail

1 of 1 goal broke a tie

How the 1 goal and 6 assists were scored: when, at what strength, in what game state, and per 60 minutes.

Goal detail

Game-winning goals0T-4th on UTA
Overtime goals0T-1st on UTA
First goal of the game1
Empty-net goals0
Even-strength goals0
Power-play goals1

Goals by period

1st1
2nd0
3rd0
Overtime0

Goals by game state

Tied1
Leading0
Trailing0

1 of 1 goal broke a tie; 0 came with Utah trailing.

Assists

Primary3 · 50%
Secondary3 · 50%

Primary assists are the stronger playmaking signal.

Rates per 60

Points / 605.90
Goals / 600.84
Shots / 609.3
ES points / 602.092 ES points
PP points / 6021.875 PP points

Shot locations

Most attempts from the slot, goals from the wing

Every attempt, attacking right, from the games with a stored shot map.

GoalOn goalMissedBlocked

By zone

Crease3 att · 0 G
Slot11 att · 0 G
Wing9 att · 1 G
Point0 att · 0 G
Neutral zone0 att · 0 G

23 attempts across the 4 games with a stored shot map. Small sample

Expected goals (ixG)1.727th
Goals1
Goals vs expected−0.7
Unblocked attempts17
xG per attempt.102
ixG per 601.46

2026-27 · 4 games. Rank among all skaters by ixG. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.

Every unblocked attempt he took, weighed by its chance of scoring from that spot, shot type and strength. Above zero is finishing better than the chances.

xG leaders

2026-27 · Skating and shot power

Hardest shot in the 85th percentile of forwards: 85.23 mph

How fast he skated, how far, how hard he shot and where on the ice his shifts were spent, against the average NHL forward.

Tracking percentile among NHL forwards

Offensive-zone time49.5%95th
Defensive-zone time33.7%92nd
Distance skated, mi11.290th
Hardest shot, mph85.2385th
20+ mph bursts778th
Top speed, mph21.4962nd
90+ mph shots048th
22+ mph bursts041st
Distance / 60, mi9.4730th
Average shot, mph48.324th

Bars show the percentile against 383 forwards with 2+ games in 2026-27; the thin line marks the median. Higher is better on every row: less defensive-zone time ranks higher.

Top speed, mph21.49Forward average 21.23
Hardest shot, mph85.23Forward average 74.7
Distance skated11.2 mi2.83 mi in his longest game
Offensive-zone starts43.8%29.2% defensive · 27.1% neutral

Where his shifts were spent

48.1%All situations34.8%
45.8%Even strength36.5%
63.4%Power play24.1%
0.0%Shorthanded54.6%
OffensiveNeutralDefensive

Share of his time on ice in each zone.

Fastest moments

  1. 21.06vsCHI1 Oct · 3rd 17:11
  2. 20.51vsCHI1 Oct · 1st 00:44
  3. 20.44@NYR4 Oct · 1st 09:06
  4. 19.71@NYR4 Oct · 2nd 18:50
  5. 19.71@NYR4 Oct · 2nd 00:08
  6. 19.67@CBJ3 Oct · 1st 01:10
  7. 19.67@NYR4 Oct · 1st 04:12
  8. 19.56@NYR4 Oct · 1st 13:10

His fastest bursts in mph.

22+ mph0 · avg 0.3
20-22 mph7 · avg 4.6
18-20 mph33 · avg 20

Bursts per speed band, against the forward average.

Hardest shots

  1. 85.23@CBJ3 Oct · 1st 02:36
  2. 62.37vsCHI1 Oct · 1st 00:53
  3. 62.10@CBJ3 Oct · 1st 02:53
  4. 57.43@NYR4 Oct · 2nd 14:27
  5. 51.74@NYR4 Oct · 1st 15:42
  6. 44.46vsCHI1 Oct · 1st 03:28
  7. 36.99@CBJ3 Oct · 2nd 01:14
  8. 34.90vsCHI1 Oct · 1st 10:24

Shot speed in mph, every attempt type.

100+ mph0 · avg 0.0
90-99 mph0 · avg 0.0
80-89 mph1 · avg 0.6
70-79 mph1 · avg 1.6

Shot attempts per speed band.

Distance, last 10 games

  1. 2.83@NJD6 Oct · 18:18 TOI
  2. 2.83@NYR4 Oct · 18:03 TOI
  3. 2.76@CBJ3 Oct · 17:04 TOI
  4. 2.82vsCHI1 Oct · 17:43 TOI

Miles per game with his time on ice. Season average 2.81 a game. Small sample: these numbers move a lot in the first weeks of a season.


Physical play, discipline and faceoffs

Physical play, discipline and faceoffs

Possession events, penalties drawn against penalties taken, and faceoffs.

Possession and physical

Takeaways0T-14th on UTA
Giveaways4
TK / GV ratio0.00
Hits1T-16th on UTA
Blocked shots3T-8th on UTA

Discipline

Penalty minutes2
Minors1
Majors0
Penalties drawn2
Net penalties+1drawn minus taken

Game log

Against Boston, a point in one of two

Full game log →
DateOpponentResultGAPSOG+/-TOI
16 Dec 2025@BOSL 1-40004018:39
19 Oct 2025vsBOSW 3-21122019:08

Prediction markets

46% for the 90+ points

Season ladders and award futures he is priced for, as the venues' average midpoint.

90+ points2026-27 regular season46%—57¢Not listedNot listed
Art Ross TrophyPoints leader0.5%—1¢Not listedNot listed

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Contract

$7.15M a season through 2027-28

In 2025-26 he scored 12.3 points per $1M of cap hit, 93rd of 370 forwards with 40 or more games and a current contract.

Cap hit$7.15M6.9% of the $104M ceiling
Term8 yearsYear 7 of 8
Expires2027-28UFA at 29
Cap value$57.2MCap hit × 8 years

Cap hit is the average annual charge against the salary cap, not a yearly salary; cap value is cap hit times the years of the deal, not a reported total. As of 2 Oct 2026.


With Utah

Two seasons · 2024-25 to 2025-26
Linemates and opponents

Mikhail Sergachev sets him up more than anyone

Built from goal and assist records: who assists on his goals, whose goals he assists, and his scoring against each opponent.

Who sets him up

Mikhail Sergachev1
Logan Cooley1

Assists on his 1 goal, 2026-27.

Who he sets up

Dylan Guenther2
Nick Schmaltz2
Mikhail Sergachev1
Vincent Trocheck1

Scorers on his 6 assists.


Career

Regular season and playoffs
Career · regular season

Ten seasons, with 2 clubs

Career · regular season

SeasonTeamGPGAPP/GPSH%Points
2016-17ARI30220.67—
2017-18ARI822342650.7910.8%
2018-19ARI821433470.577.0%
2019-20ARI701727440.639.2%
2020-21ARI561421350.6311.3%
2021-22ARI672835630.9415.8%
2022-23ARI823749861.0516.6%
2023-24ARI783343760.9714.5%
2024-25UTA813060901.1113.8%
2025-26UTA822662881.0711.6%
Career6832223745960.8712.4%

Season rows reconcile with the official career totals.

Draft

2016ARI · round 1From USA U-18 (USHL)#7

Teammates in the stats

2026-27 · UTA points

Games15
Goals5
Points120.80 P/GP
Game-winning goals0
Career page

Updated after every final · through 6 Oct