Clayton Keller got the taste for it last season. A taste for Utah and the fervor for hockey in the NHL's newest market. A taste for winning on the international stage with the United States. A taste for success.

"I have bigger places to go," the Utah Mammoth captain told NHL.com.

The Stanley Cup Playoffs are bigger. Keller has never played in them in a non-pandemic season.

It's the expectation for him and the Mammoth now.

The Olympics might be the biggest place he can go. He's on USA Hockey's radar after leading the United States to its first gold medal at the IIHF World Championship in 92 years.

Keller's own expectation is that he will be at the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 wearing the red, white and blue and helping the Americans win Olympic gold for the first time sinc

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