On March 14, The Utica Comets, an American Hockey League team in New York affiliated with the NHL’s New Jersey Devils, announced that they were trading defenseman Will MacKinnon to the Cleveland Monsters in exchange for future considerations.

It's pretty tough to make the AHL without being a talented hockey player, but having a dad who serves as the GM of a team certainly doesn't hurt. It's

We all wish this story could be taken at face value as a victory for merit and against nepotism, a triumph of the lack of human spirit and a blow against familial gladhanding. We want it to be a message of total bastardy in action,