Keith Acton

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CanadaCanada  Keith Acton Ice hockey player
Date of birth April 15, 1958
place of birth Stouffville , Ontario , Canada
size 173 cm
Weight 77 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1978 , 6th lap, 103rd position
Canadiens de Montréal
Career stations
1974-1975 Wexford Raiders
1975-1988 Peterborough Petes
1978-1980 Nova Scotia Voyageurs
1980-1983 Canadiens de Montréal
1983-1988 Minnesota North Stars
1988-1989 Edmonton Oilers
1989-1993 Philadelphia Flyers
1993 Washington Capitals
1993-1994 New York Islanders
1994 Hershey Bears
CanadaCanada  Keith Acton
Keith Acton
Coaching stations
1994-1998 Philadelphia Flyers (assistant coach)
1998-2000 New York Rangers (assistant coach)
2000-2011 Toronto Maple Leafs (Assistant Coach)
2011–2012 Serbia U18 (assistant coach)
2012-2013 Columbus Blue Jackets (assistant coach)
2013-2015 Edmonton Oilers (assistant coach)

Keith Edward Acton (born April 15, 1958 in Stouffville , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and coach who played 1089 games for the Canadiens de Montréal , Minnesota North Stars , Edmonton Oilers , Philadelphia during his active career between 1975 and 1994 Flyers , Washington Capitals and New York Islanders in the National Hockey League on the position of the center has denied. With the Edmonton Oilers, the three-time world championship participant celebrated the greatest success of his playing career in the 1987/88 season by winning the Stanley Cup . In addition, Acton was an assistant coach at various NHL franchises between 1994 and 2014 . His son Will Acton is also a professional ice hockey player.

Career

Acton spent his junior years between 1974 and 1975 with the Wexford Raiders in the Ontario Hockey Association and from 1975 to 1978 with the Peterborough Petes in the Ontario Major Junior Hockey League . With the Petes he won the J. Ross Robertson Cup at the end of the 1977/78 season , in which he had a significant share with 128 scorer points . This made him the best scorer of his team and fourth best in the entire league. In the subsequent Memorial Cup, the Peterborough Petes were subject to the New Westminster Bruins from the Western Hockey League .

After the end of his junior career, the striker was selected in the sixth round in the sixth round in the sixth round in the NHL Amateur Draft in 1978 by the Canadiens de Montréal from the National Hockey League and immediately committed by them. In his first two seasons as a professional Acton was part of the squad of the Nova Scotia Voyageurs from the American Hockey League and he was only used twice for the Canadiens in the NHL. During his time with the Voyageurs, he was appointed to the Second All-Star Team of the AHL in 1980 . It was not until the beginning of the 1980/81 season that the attacker was part of the Montréals NHL squad, to which he belonged until shortly after the beginning of the 1983/84 season . Together with Mark Napier and a third-round suffrage in the 1984 NHL Entry Draft , the striker was given to the Minnesota North Stars in exchange for Bobby Smith . There Acton played the following four and a half seasons before he was signed in January 1988 in exchange for Moe Mantha by the Edmonton Oilers . With the team led by Wayne Gretzky , Acton won the Stanley Cup at the end of the season .

After just over a year, the Canadian left the Oilers again in February 1989, as he was transferred to the Philadelphia Flyers with a six- round suffrage in the 1991 NHL Entry Draft . In return, Dave Brown gave these to Edmonton. Acton ran for the Flyers until the end of the season, before he was transferred to the Winnipeg Jets together with Pete Peeters during the summer break , but was brought back a little later and without playing a game for the franchise . Peeters also returned to Philadelphia, which was offset by a five-round suffrage in the 1991 NHL Entry Draft and the settlement of a previous transfer deal from Shawn Cronin . Ultimately, Acton played for the Flyers until the summer of 1993.

Since his contract had expired after the 1992/93 season , the attacker moved to the Washington Capitals as a free agent in July 1993 , for which he only appeared six times, since he was selected on the waiver list by the New York Islanders . Acton finally ended the season there and ran twelve times in the 1994/95 season for the Hershey Bears in the AHL, which were in cooperation with the Philadelphia Flyers. With the end of the lockout of the 1994/95 NHL season , Acton retired from active sports at the age of 36.

After the end of his active career, Acton was immediately hired as an assistant coach for the Philadelphia Flyers. He filled this position until 1998 under head coach Terry Murray and his successor Wayne Cashman . The Flyers reached the final of the Stanley Cup during the 1996/97 season . From 1998 to 2000, the former striker worked in his own capacity under John Muckler for the New York Rangers . This was followed by eleven years with the Toronto Maple Leafs , where he worked as an assistant to Pat Quinn , Paul Maurice and Ron Wilson .

In the 2011/12 season Acton was committed by the Serbian ice hockey association Savez hokeja na ledu Srbije . There he looked after the U18 national team as assistant to Aleksandar Anđelić at the U18 Junior World Championship 2012 in Group B of Division II. He then moved back to North America, where he was hired by the Columbus Blue Jackets in the 2012/13 season and worked under Todd Richards for the year . For the 2013/14 season he was assistant coach at the Edmonton Oilers under head coach Dallas Eakins for two seasons . After the 2014/15 season , Acton was relieved of his office. During his time with the Oilers, he also looked after his son Will Acton for a time .

International

Acton played for his home country at the 1986 World Championships in the Soviet capital Moscow , 1990 in Switzerland and 1992 in Czechoslovakia . He was able to win the bronze medal with the Canadians in 1986, to which he contributed in ten tournament games with three goals. At the other two world championships, the maple leaves ended up outside the medal ranks. Acton played a total of 26 World Cup games in the course of his career, scoring six goals.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1975/76 Peterborough Petes OMJHL 35 9 17th 26th 30th - - - - -
1976/77 Peterborough Petes OMJHL 65 52 69 121 93 4th 1 4th 5 6th
1977/78 Peterborough Petes OMJHL 68 42 86 128 52 21st 10 8th 18th 16
1978 Peterborough Petes Memorial Cup 3 0 1 1 0
1978/79 Nova Scotia Voyageurs AHL 79 15th 26th 41 22nd 10 4th 2 6th 4th
1979/80 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 2 0 1 1 0 - - - - -
1979/80 Nova Scotia Voyageurs AHL 75 45 53 98 38 6th 1 2 3 8th
1980/81 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 61 15th 24 39 74 2 0 0 0 6th
1981/82 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 78 36 52 88 88 5 0 4th 4th 16
1982/83 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 78 24 26th 50 63 3 0 0 0 0
1983/84 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 9 3 7th 10 4th - - - - -
1983/84 Minnesota North Stars NHL 62 17th 38 55 60 15th 4th 7th 11 12
1984/85 Minnesota North Stars NHL 78 20th 38 58 90 9 4th 4th 8th 6th
1985/86 Minnesota North Stars NHL 79 26th 32 58 100 5 0 3 3 6th
1986/87 Minnesota North Stars NHL 78 16 29 45 56 - - - - -
1987/88 Minnesota North Stars NHL 46 8th 11 19th 74 - - - - -
1987/88 Edmonton Oilers NHL 26th 3 6th 9 21st 7th 2 0 2 16
1988/89 Edmonton Oilers NHL 46 11 15th 26th 47 - - - - -
1988/89 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 25th 3 10 13 64 16 2 3 5 18th
1989/90 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 69 13 14th 27 80 - - - - -
1990/91 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 76 14th 23 37 131 - - - - -
1991/92 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 50 7th 10 17th 98 - - - - -
1992/93 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 83 8th 15th 23 51 - - - - -
1993/94 Washington Capitals NHL 6th 0 0 0 21st - - - - -
1993/94 New York Islanders NHL 71 2 7th 9 50 4th 0 0 0 8th
1994/95 Hershey Bears AHL 12 5 7th 12 58 - - - - -
OMJHL overall 168 103 172 275 175 25th 11 12 23 22nd
AHL total 166 65 86 151 118 16 5 4th 9 12
NHL overall 1023 226 358 584 1172 66 12 21st 33 88

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1986 Canada WM 3rd place, bronze 10 3 0 3 2
1990 Canada WM 4th Place 10 2 0 2 0
1992 Canada WM 8th place 6th 1 0 1 2
Men overall 26th 6th 0 6th 4th

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

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personal data
SURNAME Acton, Keith
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Acton, Keith Edward (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Stouffville , Ontario