A native of Rhode Island, Keith Carney was a well-traveled Defenseman's arrival to the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim was his fourth NHL team (after Buffalo, Chicago, and Phoenix).

From Rhode Island, Keith Carney would play scholastically for the University of Maine before joining the Buffalo Sabers.  The American Defenseman would become a defensive anchor everywhere he played in the sixteen seasons he was in the NHL, which included stops in Chicago, Phoenix, Anaheim, Vancouver, and Minnesota.  Carney would also represent the United States in the 1998 Olympics and he would twice finish in the top ten in Defensive Point Shares.