Aaron Keller

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Aaron Keller (Japaneseアーロン·キャラー, Aron Kyara; born March 1, 1975 in Kamloops, British Columbia) is a Japanese- Canadian professional ice hockey player who is known since 2002 at the Ōji Eagles in the Asia League Ice Hockey under contract.

Career

Keller began his career as a hockey player with the Kamloops Blazers of his native city, which play in the Western Hockey League, a junior league. With the Blazers, he won the 1994 and 1995 WHL title. In 1996, the defender in the East Coast Hockey League with the Peoria Rivermen, but which he soon left and was still running in the same season with the Chicago Wolves of the International Hockey League and the Baltimore Bandits of the American Hockey League on the ice. None of the three teams he was able to show off so he went in 1999 to Japan in the Japan Ice Hockey League, where he was for two years at Snow Brand Sapporo and then one year at Sapporo Polaris under contract. 2002 he moved to the Japanese giants Ōji Eagles after Tomakomai. With the Eagles in 2005 he was a Japanese master. Since 2003, the multinational Asia League Ice Hockey was founded with teams from China, Japan and South Korea, plays cellar with his team in this competition and was able to win the title in 2008 and 2012.

Internationally

After Keller had assumed the Japanese citizenship, he played for the first time in February 2005 at the Olympic qualifiers for the 2006 games in Turin in the Japanese national team, but his team lost all three games and was the tournament in Kloten as Group Last behind Gastger Switzerland, Norway and Denmark. Even in the qualifying tournaments for the 2010 games in Vancouver and Sochi 2014 was about Keller, but missed with the Japanese again each to participate in the Olympic tournament.

At the World Championships Division I Keller took 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2013. In competitions in 2009 and 2013, he was honored as the best defensive player in each of the tournament and a member of the All-Star team.

In 2011, the basement for the first time at the Asian Winter Games in part and won with the Japanese team behind Kazakhstan the silver medal. Again, he was named the best defensive player of the tournament.

Awards and achievements

  • 2005 Japanese champion with the Ōji Eagles
  • 2008 Master of the Asia League Ice Hockey with the Ōji Eagles
  • 2009 Top defender and member of the All-Star teams in Group A of Division I Ice Hockey World Championship
  • 2011 Silver medal at the Asian Winter Games with Japan
  • 2011 Best Defensemen in the Asian Winter Games
  • 2012 Master of the Asia League Ice Hockey with the Ōji Eagles
  • 2013 Best defender and member of the All-Star teams in Group A of Division I Ice Hockey World Championship

Leaguestats

(End of season 2012/ 13)

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