Elmore Lee Keener, Jr. (November 5, 1935 - October 22, 1973) was a National Hockey League co-owner of the Pittsburgh Penguins starting from April 21, 1971 until his death from lung cancer. Elmore was the son of Emelia Keener and Elmore Lee Keener Sr. and lived in Freeport, New York. In 1956 he married Janet Rockwell Bygate in Pittsburgh at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church. On April 21, 1971, Keener, Peter Block, Peter Burchfield and Thayer Potter, who were all men in their late thirties at the time, purchased the Pittsburgh Penguins for $7 million ($46.6 million today). When the deal was announced Potter stated that the group "bought the Penguins as a matter of civic pride".