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Clayton Keller

Utah Mammoth

Clayton Keller

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2026-27 regular season

Games played
1
Goals
0
Assists
2
Points
2

As of Oct 2, 6:09 AM ET · updated each morning

How good

Among 980 forwards, 2021-22 to 2026-27

Pool: every forward who played in those seasons · Sample: 397 games

Top tenth of his pool in assists and power-play points.

Production

Production: percentile among 980 forwards, and the adjusted per-game rate it was computed from
StatPctlAdjusted per game
Points981.06
Goals930.34
Assists990.72
Shots on goal962.78
Power-play points990.37

Style and role

Style and role: percentile among 980 forwards, and the adjusted per-game rate it was computed from
StatPctlAdjusted per game
Hits10.18
Blocked shots260.42
Penalty minutes610.44

Further right means more, not better: hits, blocked shots and penalty minutes describe a role, not quality.

What adjusted per game means — not his recorded rate
Adjusted per game is the rate each percentile was computed from: his recorded rate, weighted toward recent games and pulled toward the league average by sample size, so a short career does not read as an elite one. It sits closer to average than the rate recorded, so a skater with no points in his games can still show points per game above zero.

How he got here

Each regular season

  • 2021-22: 63 over 67 games
  • 2022-23: 86 over 82 games
  • 2023-24: 76 over 78 games
  • 2024-25: 90 over 81 games
  • 2025-26: 88 over 82 games
  • 2026-27 to date: 2 over 1 games
  • 2026-27 projected: 89.1, a full-season pace
Points, regular season. Filled dots are finished seasons; the smaller dot is the season to date; the dotted ring is the 2026-27 full-season pace from the projections board, the projected rate across the club's whole schedule, not a forecast of the total. GP: games played.

What next

2026-27, projected

Full-season pace · his rate times the schedule

If he plays all 84 Utah Mammoth games at his modelled per-game rate

Points
89.1
Goals
28.8
Assists
60.4
Shots on goal
233.2
Power-play points
31.0
Hits
15.3
Blocked shots
35.0
Penalty minutes
36.8

Based on 397 games he has played, weighted toward recent ones. It assumes he plays all 84: injuries, scratches and trades are not modelled.

How the pace is worked out — the figure the projections board ranks on

Each figure is his per-game rate, weighted toward recent games, times the 84 games on the Utah Mammoth schedule. It is the pace the projections board ranks the league on, so the figure a reader clicked there is the one at the top of this card.

What carries into 2026-27 · a forecast, not a result

Below-average finishing; most of it projected to recover

2025-26−0.82−0.152026-27, projected
Goals above expected per 100 attempts, against the average for right wings

That was −2.8 goals over 338 attempts; the forecast is ≈ −0.5 at the same volume.

How the forecast is worked out — the carried share is measured over five seasons

18% of a season's rate against right wings carries into the next: −0.82 × 18% ≈ −0.15 per 100 attempts. The share is measured over five seasons of skaters clearing the same 100-attempt floor, and what does not carry regresses toward the rate for his position.

Against right wings, not raw goals above expected. Goals minus was −3.7: 26 goals on 29.7 xG, or −1.11 per 100 attempts. Right wings as a group scored −0.28 per 100 against xG, so against right wings his rate was −0.82. Penalty-shot goals are left out: the model does not rate penalty shots.

Shot volume is not projected, so the goal figures assume the same number of attempts. A gap that persists means he reliably scores above what this model expects, which may be finishing skill or may be shots the model under-rates; the measurement cannot separate the two. Running cold is a statement about the season just played, not about talent.

This projection is written to a prediction log on the night it is produced, so it can be scored against what actually happens rather than restated later.

Shooting

Where he shoots, and how he finishes

Shot density · 2025-26 · open play, regular season

FewerMore attempts, up to this skater’s busiest cell

8 more attempts came from outside the offensive zone and are not in the grid.

Open play · regular season · goals

Goals against a league-average finisher, by season

In 2025-26 he scored 26 where a league-average finisher would score 28.3 from his chances: 2.3 fewer.

  1. 2025-26 · on the rink26 G · 28.3 avg · −2.3 · 82 GP

  2. 2024-2530 G · 28.9 avg · +1.1 · 81 GP

  3. 2023-2433 G · 26.4 avg · +6.6 · 78 GP

  4. 2022-2337 G · 24.8 avg · +12.2 · 80 GP

  5. 2021-2228 G · 20.0 avg · +8.0 · 65 GP

  • Goals
  • A league-average finisher
What the ring counts — what a league-average finisher would score from the same attempts

The shot model prices the chance of a goal on every unblocked attempt he took in open play during the regular season; shootouts and penalty shots are left out. Those chances are scaled so that, across the league, they add up to the goals actually scored that season, so the ring is what a league-average finisher would have scored from his attempts and each season is measured against its own average. The gap is his goals minus that; the table below lists the exact figures.

Finishing against the league average · open play, regular season

Finishing by season: goals against a league-average finisher on the same attempts
SeasonG
2025-2628.326−2.382338
2024-2528.930+1.181333
2023-2426.433+6.678331
2022-2324.837+12.280302
2021-2220.028+8.065228

G vs avg: goals minus what a league-average finisher would score from the same attempts (Exp G, the model’s expected goals scaled to that season’s league-wide scoring).

Detail

The record

Regular season

Regular season, by season
SeasonGAP
2026-2710222.00417:43
2025-26822662881.0722519:05
2024-25813060901.1121819:07
2023-24783343760.9722819:15
2022-23823749861.0522320:45
2021-22672835630.9417720:08

2025-26 regular season by strength · G-A-P

Even strength
23 goals, 38 assists, 61 points
Power play
3 goals, 24 assists, 27 points
Shorthanded
0 goals, 0 assists, 0 points

Penalty-shot goals are not counted here: each one leaves these a goal and a point below his regular-season totals.

Last 10 games

Last 10 games, newest first
DateOppGAHITBLKPIM
Oct 1vs CHI402201217:43
May 1vs VGK, playoff game700022020:40
Apr 29@ VGK, playoff game402000029:40
Apr 27vs VGK, playoff game710011025:40
Apr 24vs VGK, playoff game002100015:33
Apr 21@ VGK, playoff game100021017:34
Apr 19@ VGK, playoff game200011019:49
Apr 16vs STL102000020:14
Apr 14vs WPG201100020:59
Apr 12@ CGY201002419:21

PO = playoff game.

Markets · latest captured, not current

Apr 9 vs Nashville Predators · 9:00 PM ET

The prices posted for a game already played. Open to see them.

The model has not beaten the Pinnacle closing line: shots-on-goal ROI −0.0709 [−0.0932, −0.0467] per unit over 7,171 bets in a 2025-26 backtest of 512 games. How this was measured

Pre-game snapshotCaptured between Jul 30, 2:39 PM ET and Oct 1, 8:21 PM ET

This game’s markets: the posted line, the model’s projection and its chance of the over
MarketLineModel projectionModel chance of over
Anytime goal0.50.432%
Power-play points0.50.5Not shown
Shots on goal2.53.1Not shown
Assists, hits, blocked shots, penalty minutesNo line posted.

No probability shown for power-play points and shots on goal: these markets’ models are not calibrated well enough to state one.