Jack Adams Award
The Jack Adams Award is awarded annually to the National Hockey League (NHL) coach "adjudged to have contributed the most to his team's success." The league's Coach of the Year award has been presented 40 times to 34 coaches. The winner is selected by a poll of the National Hockey League Broadcasters Association at the end of the regular season. Five coaches have won the award twice, while Pat Burns has won three times, the most of any coach. The award is named in honour of Jack Adams, Hall of Fame player for the Toronto Arenas/St. Patricks, Vancouver Millionaires and original Ottawa Senators, and long-time Coach and General Manager of the Detroit Red Wings. It was first awarded at the conclusion of the 1973–74 regular season.
Jack Adams Award | |
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Sport | Ice hockey |
Given for | National Hockey League coach "adjudged to have contributed the most to his team's success."[1] |
History | |
First award | 1974 |
Most wins | Pat Burns (3) |
Most recent | Bruce Cassidy Boston Bruins |
Jacques Demers is the only coach to win the award in consecutive seasons. Five coaches have won the award with two teams: Jacques Lemaire, Pat Quinn, Scotty Bowman, Barry Trotz, and John Tortorella have won the award twice, while Pat Burns is the only coach to win three times.[2] The franchises with the most Jack Adams Award winners are the Philadelphia Flyers, Detroit Red Wings, Boston Bruins and Phoenix Coyotes with four winners each, although the Coyotes had two winners in Winnipeg before they moved to Arizona. Bill Barber, Bruce Boudreau and Ken Hitchcock are the only coaches to win the award after replacing the head coach who started the season. Barber took over for Craig Ramsay during the Flyers' 2000–01 season, Boudreau replaced Glen Hanlon a month into the Capitals' 2007–08 season while Hitchcock replaced Davis Payne a month into the Blues' 2011–12 season. The closest vote occurred in 2006, when the winner Lindy Ruff edged out Peter Laviolette by a single point.[3]
Winners
- Coaches whose teams won the Stanley Cup
- Teams who had best overall record in regular season (Presidents' Trophy awarded to team with best overall record since 1985–86)
- Coaches whose teams lost the Stanley Cup final round
- Season shortened by the 1994–95 NHL lockout
- Coaches whose teams replaced the coach that started the season
- Not awarded due to the lock-out
- Season shortened by the 2012–13 NHL lockout
- Regular season shortened by the COVID-19 pandemic
References
- "Jack Adams Award". National Hockey League. Retrieved September 9, 2007.
- Also, the only coach to win with three different teams.
- "Thornton, Lidstrom, Ovechkin win at NHL awards". ESPN. June 23, 2006. Retrieved February 8, 2015.
External links
- "Jack Adams Award". National Hockey League. Retrieved September 9, 2007.
- "President's Trophy". National Hockey League. Retrieved September 9, 2007.
- "Stanley Cup Champions and Finalists". National Hockey League. Retrieved September 9, 2007.