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Keller selected to Coyotes’ team-best 4th All-Star Game

Forward will skate in Feb. 3 game in Toronto

Arizona Coyotes forward Clayton Keller is officially the franchise leader in All-Star Game appearances.

The 25-year-old Missouri native has been selected to represent the Coyotes at the 2024 NHL All-Star Game, the league announced Thursday. The game takes place Saturday, Feb. 3 at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Ontario.

This will be Keller’s fourth NHL All-Star Game appearance, which will surpass Keith Tkachuk and Teppo Numminen for the most All-Star game appearances in Coyotes history. Keller was named to his first NHL All-Star Game in 2019 when he represented the Coyotes in San Jose. He also represented the team in Las Vegas (2022) and Fort Lauderdale (2023).

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Keller selected to Coyotes’ team-best 4th All-Star Game

Forward will skate in Feb. 3 game in Toronto

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Arizona Coyotes forward Clayton Keller is officially the franchise leader in All-Star Game appearances.

The 25-year-old Missouri native has been selected to represent the Coyotes at the 2024 NHL All-Star Game, the league announced Thursday. The game takes place Saturday, Feb. 3 at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Ontario.

This will be Keller’s fourth NHL All-Star Game appearance, which will surpass Keith Tkachuk and Teppo Numminen for the most All-Star game appearances in Coyotes history. Keller was named to his first NHL All-Star Game in 2019 when he represented the Coyotes in San Jose. He also represented the team in Las Vegas (2022) and Fort Lauderdale (2023).

The forward leads the team in scoring with 13-18-31 through 36 games this season, while also leading the team with four game-winning goals and 103 shots. He is also second on the team with five power play goals and is tied for the team-lead with six multi-point games.

Last season, the 5-foot-10, 178-pound Keller returned from fracturing his femur to play in all 82 games and finished with a career-high 37-49-86 points to tie Tkachuk for the single season Coyotes scoring record. Keller recorded 19-26-45 in 32 games after the 2023 All-Star game to rank fourth in the NHL during that span which includes a record-breaking March that saw the forward post a Coyotes team record 14-game point streak, helping him earn the NHL’s Third Star of the Month.

Keller has totaled 146-227-373 in 478 career regular season games with the Coyotes and ranks fourth in points and assists and fifth in goals in team history.

The now four-time NHL All Star was drafted by the Coyotes in the first round (seventh overall) in the 2016 NHL Draft and ranks third in assists and fifth in goals and points from his draft class.

Coyotes NHL All-Star Game Representatives:

1997: Defenseman Oleg Tverdovsky, left wing Keith Tkachuk

1998: Left wing Keith Tkachuk, goaltender Nikolai Khabibulin

1999: Center Jeremy Roenick, left wing Keith Tkachuk, goaltender Nikolai Khabibulin, defenseman Teppo Numminen and head coach Jim Schoenfeld

2000: Center Jeremy Roenick, defenseman Teppo Numminen

2001: Goaltender Sean Burke, defenseman Teppo Numminen

2002: Goaltender Sean Burke

2004: Right wing Shane Doan

2007: Center Yanic Perreault, defenseman Ed Jovanovski 

2008: Defenseman Ed Jovanovski

2009: Right wing Shane Doan

2011: Defenseman Keith Yandle

2012: Defenseman Keith Yandle

2015: Defenseman Oliver Ekman-Larsson

2017: Goaltender Mike Smith

2018: Defenseman Oliver Ekman-Larsson

2019: Right wing Clayton Keller

2020: Goaltender Darcy Kuemper and head coach Rick Tocchet 

2022: Left wing Clayton Keller

2023: Left wing Clayton Keller

2024: Left wing Clayton Keller

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