KEITH ACTON KNOWS WHERE BODIES ARE BURIED

I'm sure Keith Acton is a very nice person, but why the Toronto Maple Leafs continue to employ this guy as an Assistant Coach is a mystery and why media scribes in that city don't even bring it up is way beyond my understanding.

Acton has been with Toronto since 2002, somehow managing to stay on staff with Pat Quinn, Paul Maurice, and Ron Wilson.  Many of the other assistants have changed, but Acton stays constant.  So too do the non-playoff performances by the Maple Leafs.

And, now the Leafs have doled out a professional contract to Keith's son Will.  This, despite Will plugging along in the Ontario Junior 'A' ranks for three really unremarkable years.  His best season was 29-points in 33-games with hometown Stouffville.  Unremarkable could best describe his four year stint at Lake Superior State too. Undrafted, Brian Burke and company scooped him up and he's gone pointless in four games at the AHL level.

Perhaps he is a leader.  Canada East named him captain for their World Junior 'A' Challenge entry in Yorkton in 2006.  That season, he fired 11-goals in 48-games.  At least Will's credentials dwarf those of Trevor Nill, the son of Detroit Red Wing Assistant General Manager Jim Nill.  Trevor 'starred' in the hockey world with an 11-point season (53-games) for Penticton of the BCHL, taking up a Canada West WJAC roster spot that could have gone to Dustin Stevenson (La Ronge, now signed with Washington Capitals) or Weyburn's Rhett Bly, who had 42-points that year on his way to back to back 70 point seasons and a scholarship in the NCAA.  Trevor somehow found his way onto Michigan State where he has contributed goal seasons of 1, 2, and 1.  I'm clearly missing something though.  Trevor has been drafted by the St. Louis Blues.

Just the latest example of someone with NHL bloodlines getting as close to a free ticket at an NHL shot as possible.