Duncan Keith
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Duncan Keith (born July 16, 1983) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman and an alternate captain for the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League. (NHL).
Keith is known as a two-way defenceman, with ability to serve in both shutdown and offensive roles.
In 2010, 2013 and 2015, he was a three-time Stanley Cup champion with the Blackhawks.
Keith was selected in the second round, 54th overall, by Chicago in the 2002 NHL Entry Draft, and he was named one of the "100 Greatest NHL Players" in history.
He spent two seasons with the Norfolk Admirals of the American Hockey League, splitting the next year between Michigan State and the Kelowna Rockets of the Western Hockey League (WHL).
In 2005–06, he appeared for the Blackhawks in his NHL rookie season.
He was named as the best defenceman in the NHL four years as the best defenseman in the NHL and helped the Blackhawks win the Stanley Cup in 2010.
Keith played in 2013 and 2015 for the Blackhawks, respectively, winning his second and third Stanley Cup.
By a unanimous vote in 2015, he also received the Conn Smythe Trophy. Keith has been a gold medalist with Team Canada at the 2010 Vancouver and 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.
Early life
Keith is Dave and Jean Keith's middle child; older brother Cameron (born 1981) and younger sister Rebecca (born in 1984). When his father moved to Fort Frances, Ontario, in 1985, he was working at the local Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) branch. Keith's mother worked in the health sector at Rainycrest Home for the Aged in Fort Frances.
Keith grew up as a Boston Bruins fan, singling-out defenceman Ray Bourque and forward Cam Neely as his favorite players, as well as Wayne Gretzky. Keith and his brother played minor hockey in the Fort Frances Minor Hockey Association. He was first a forward for the Fort Frances Times Tigers and has recalled switching to defense at the age of eight or nine. He continued to play AA Atom with Pinewood Sports and Marine Ltd and PeeWee with the Knights of Columbus. The town of Fort Frances celebrated Keith's success by announcing "Duncan Keith Day" on July 21, 2008.
Though Keith was recruited for AAA Bantam in Thunder Bay, Ontario, his father, Robert, was working as a manager at a CIBC branch in Summerland, British Columbia. At the age of 15, his family moved to Penticton, where he spent his remaining two years of minor hockey. As a 16-year-old, he was then invited to the Penticton Panthers of the British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL).
Personal life
Keith and his ex-wife Kelly-Rae have one son, who was born on May 8, 2013.
Keith and Blackhawks colleague Brent Seabrook made a cameo appearance on the NBC drama Chicago Fire on February 25, 2014.
Playing career
Keith played three years with the Penticton Panthers from 1999-00 to 2000-01, scoring 78 goals and 148 assists in 163 games. He was recruited by Michigan State University and spent two years with the Michigan State Spartans of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA). In his Spartans debut in the Cold War, an outdoor game against the University of Michigan Wolverines on October 6, 2001, he scored a goal. In 41 games, he had three goals and 15 points, ranked fourth among team defensemen behind John-Michael Liles, Brad Fast, and Andrew Hutchinson. Keith left the Spartans after 15 games to join the major junior ranks in his second college season. He returned to British Columbia to play for the Kelowna Rockets of the Western Hockey League (WHL) for 37 regular season games with a +32 plus-minus in his single season. In 19 playoff games, he has also scored 14 points.
Keith was chosen by the Chicago Blackhawks in the second round, 54th overall, of the 2002 NHL Entry Draft. He signed with Chicago prior to the 2003-04 season and spent his first two seasons with the team affiliate Norfolk Admirals in the American Hockey League (AHL). In his first season as a professional athlete, he scored seven goals and 25 points in 74 games. Keith's chances of playing with the Blackhawks the following season were cut off due to the 2004-05 NHL lockout. He stayed with the Admirals for the second time, scoring 26 points in 79 games.
Keith left the Blackhawks squad out of the 2005 training camp after two seasons in the AHL. He appeared in his first NHL game against the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim on October 5, 2005. During his 2005–06 NHL rookie season, he made an immediate impact on the team, scoring 9 goals and 21 points, as well as averaging over 23 minutes of ice time in 81 games. In the off-season, the Blackhawks re-signed him to a four-year contract extension.
He appeared in all 82 games for the Blackhawks during his tenure, including one time in averaging ice time of 23 minutes. With 148 blocked shots, he had 2 goals and 31 points while leading the team in blocked shots. Keith also saw more ice time in the 2007-08 season as injuries to the Blackhawks' defensive corps were lacking. Brent Seabrook and him started the season on the top-defensive pairing. He was on average 24:31 minutes of ice time by mid-January and had a team leading plus-minus of +14. He was rewarded for his efforts in 2008 by a call to his first NHL All-Star Game. Despite being on a non-playoff squad, Keith continued to score 12 goals and 32 points, as well as a +30 plus-minus rating.
Keith, along with forward Patrick Sharp, were appointed an alternate captain in the 2008-09 season on October 8, 2008. He led a revitalized Blackhawks squad back to the Stanley Cup playoffs, with Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane leading the team's second-year forwards and fourth-quarters, scoring 8 goals and 44 points, second in team defensemen to Brian Campbell. The Blackhawks advanced to the Western Conference Finals, where they were defeated by Central Division rivals, the Detroit Red Wings, who lost 6 points in 17 playoff games.
Keith made a huge offensive jump in 2009-2010, with him establishing himself with Seabrook as one of the league's top shutdown pairings. The Blackhawks announced on December 3, 2009, that Keith's deal was extended simultaneously with Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane. Keith's deal, at $72 million over 13 years, was the most lucrative in team history, beating Marián Hossa's 12-year, $62.8 million deal, which was signed several months before in July 2009. He finished the season with 14 goals and 69 points, ranked second in league defencemen behind Mike Green of the Washington Capitals. It was also the highest total for a Blackhawks defenseman since Chris Chelios' 72-point season in 1995-1996. His average ice time of 26:35 minutes was the second best in the league. The Blackhawks eliminated the Nashville Predators, Vancouver Canucks, and San Jose Sharks in the first three rounds of the Western Conference in the first three rounds. Keith had seven teeth knocked out by a puck during Game 4 of the Western Conference Finals against the Sharks. For the first time since 1992, he returned minutes after the incident to help the Blackhawks win a four-game sweep of the Sharks and advance to the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time since 1992. They were crowned Stanley Cup in six games against the Philadelphia Flyers, who were matched against the Philadelphia Flyers. Keith had 17 points (2 goals and 15 assists) in 22 games during the season. Mike Green and Drew Doughty of the Los Angeles Kings were selected for the James Norris Memorial Trophy for his regular season appearance, beating out Mike Green and Drew Doughty of the Los Angeles Kings to receive the award as the NHL's best defenceman in the off-season.
The team was forced to sell several pieces of their Stanley Cup winning team's salary cap after many Blackhawks players, including Keith, joined the team in the first year of lucrative contracts in the 2010–11 season. Chicago qualified for the playoffs by two points as the eighth and final seed in the West, with a reduced roster. Keith's output dropped to 7 goals and 45 points in 82 games. In seven games, the Blackhawks were defeated by the Canucks in the first round. During the series, Keith scored four goals and two assists.
Keith was suspended five games for giving an elbow to Canuck forward Daniel Sedin's head on March 23, 2012. In his video debut, Brendan Shanahan, the Head of Player Safety, said the assault was "dangerous, reckless, and resulted in injury."
During Game 3 of the Western Conference Finals, Keith received a one-game suspension for a slash to the face of Los Angeles Kings' forward Jeff Carter. In announcing the suspension, the league referred to the slash as "a one-handed upward swing," which struck Carter specifically in the chest, resulting in a laceration that needed 20 stitches to close.
Keith tallied 6 goals and 55 assists in the previous season, while still maintaining a +22 plus-minus rating in 79 games. At the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, he was with gold-medallist Team Canada. Keith had four goals and seven assists in the 2014 playoffs, but the eventual champions lost to the Los Angeles Kings in the Western Conference Finals.
Keith was named as the NHL's top defenseman after the season's conclusion.
Keith lifted his third Stanley Cup with the Blackhawks on June 15, 2015. Since scoring the winning goal on Tampa Bay Lightning goaltender Ben Bishop in 2015, his 2015 playoffs appearance resulted in the Conn Smythe Trophy for playoffs MVP. He joins Henrik Zetterberg in scoring the Cup-winning goal and winning the Conn Smythe Trophy in the same year in 2008.
Keith was brought to the ice by Minnesota Wild forward Charlie Coyle on March 29, 2016, but Coyle needed medical attention after blood dripping from his nose. Keith was suspended for intent to hurt. A investigation will result in Keith's suspension from the last five games of the regular season and the first game of the 2016 playoffs, requiring him to forfeit $148,883.35 in salary under the terms of the NHL collective bargaining agreement.
Keith and his teammate Brent Seabrook became the first pair of defencemen, and the seventh duo in NHL history, to play 1,000 games together on December 11, 2018.
Keith had requested a transfer from the Blackhawks to Western Canada or the Pacific Northwest of the United States to be closer to his family (who lives in Penticton, British Columbia), when he ended his career in June 2021. Keith's sixteen season with the Blackhawks came to an end on July 12, when he and Tim Söderlund were traded to the Edmonton Oilers in exchange for Caleb Jones and a conditional third-round pick in 2022. Keith left the Chicago club with numerous awards, including the second most games played in team uniform, second most points by a blueliner (behind only Doug Wilson) and leading the team in ice time for the first time in any season he competed in. Ken Holland's decision to leave Keith was contentious, with some chastising the decision to accept the offer without Chicago retaining any portion of Keith's compensation over the salary cap. A number of analytical analysts rated Keith as one of the worst defensemen in the NHL at the time of the trade.
Despite the uproar, Keith was generally considered to have had a good showing in his debut season in Edmonton, scoring 1 goal and 20 assists in 64 games played, mainly on the second pair. He spent much of the second half of the season with Evan Bouchard, who praised him as a valuable mentor. The Oilers finished second in the Pacific Division last season, progressing to the 2022 Stanley Cup playoffs. The team defeated the Los Angeles Kings and the Calgary Flames in the first two rounds, and then met the Colorado Avalanche in the Western Conference Finals before being defeated in four games.
Following the season's conclusion, Keith is expected to announce whether he wants to return or retire by July 1, 2022. On July 12, Keith officially announced his resignation.
Post-playing career
On October 14, 2022, the Edmonton Oilers recruited Keith as a player growth consultant.