[5] On January 10, 1918, Keats was sentenced to 14 days' field punishment for drunkenness, but otherwise had no noteworthy events during his time in the war, and by March 1919 he was back in Canada.

Officially an amateur league, there were rumours that Keats and several other players were secretly being paid a professional salary to play in the Big-4.

[6] The team officially turned professional when it helped form the WCHL in 1921 with Keats as the league's greatest star.

[1] One of the most gifted offensive players of his time, legend has it that he once collected a puck in his own zone and scored a goal after skating the length of the ice surface backwards.

The Eskimos avenged the previous season as Keats scored the championship winning goal in overtime of the second game.

[8] He played half of the 1926–27 NHL season in Boston before he was traded to the Detroit Cougars, along with Archie Briden, in exchange for Frank Fredrickson and Harry Meeking.

[9] After three games with Chicago in 1928–29, he left the team and helped organize the Tulsa Oilers of the American Hockey Association (AHA),[2] and was the league's top scorer that season.

In a game between Detroit Cougars and Chicago Black Hawks in November 1927, Keats swung his stick against a heckling spectator and almost struck famous ballroom dancer Irene Castle, then wife of Chicago Black Hawks owner Major Frederic McLaughlin.