Oilers name Keith Acton Associate Coach

[Walter Reed]

Oilers fill vacant coaching position.
http://oilers.nhl.com/club/news.htm?...id=DL|EDM|home

[kermitology]

So associate coach is a thing forever? I find that term really weird.

[getbak]

Checks career stats:

He won a Stanley Cup in 1988 as a member of the Edmonton Oilers.

Yup, it appears his qualifications are all in order.

[mikeecho]

Well, let's go through the checklist...

- Former Oiler - Check
- Won a cup as an Oiler - Check

Looks like he fits the mold

[CaptainCrunch]

Add another one to the Darryl Katz friday night pajama party. Bring your Smores Keith bring your smores



Katz - "I'm adding you to my collection of former Oilers Keith Acton, you can be my own personal Acton figure"

Acton - "Thanks Mr Katz"

Katz - "Its really hot here in my living room Acton figure, why don't you take off your shirt"

[Stay Golden]

Anyone remember when Acton was with the Northstars and he was skating behind a player from behind and he took the shaft of his stick and put it over the players head and smashed it backwards into his teeth.
He was a rat kind of a player.
I'm not 100% sure who the victim was. Guy Carbonneau maybe?
It is on one of the early Rockem Sockem's

[Red John]

The more things change, the more they stay the same in Dumpsville.

Old boys club continues.

[Lanny'sDaMan]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Add another one to the Darryl Katz friday night pajama party. Bring your Smores Keith bring your smores



Katz - "I'm adding you to my collection of former Oilers Keith Acton, you can be my own personal Acton figure"

Acton - "Thanks Mr Katz"

Katz - "Its really hot here in my living room Acton figure, why don't you take off your shirt"

So he collects ex-oilers the way Slughorn collected powerful wizards?

[OzSome]

I don't get this Associate Coach thing. Why can't they just call him an Assistant Coach? From what I understand Associate Coach means, he is the other head coach. Both of Dallas Eakins and Keith Acton would have say on coaching not getting approval from Eakins first.

[RedHot25]

Somewhat related, there is chatter in Edmonton about the assistant coaches - smith and buchberger. Eakins has kept them on, and some talk already that while the "company line" is that he had full autonomy in the choice of his coaches, well, he really didn't.

[Superfraggle]

Originally Posted by OzSome

I don't get this Associate Coach thing. Why can't they just call him an Assistant Coach? From what I understand Associate Coach means, he is the other head coach. Both of Dallas Eakins and Keith Acton would have say on coaching not getting approval from Eakins first.

Head Coach > Associate Coach > Assistant Coach

Eakins is still in charge, but Acton is getting differentiated as something above/different than the other assistants.


My guess is that the way it would work is the assistants each have their own specific role (goalie coach, defense, powerplay, etc), while Acton helps out with the bigger picture.