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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 48 times to 40 coaches. The winner is selected by a poll of the National Hockey League Broadcasters Association at the end of the regular season.
The following is a list of articles of NHL coaches who have won the Jack Adams Award, given annually to the coach adjudged to have contributed the most to his team's success, as voted by the NHL Broadcasters' Association.
Jack Adams Award: 1973–74: Awarded to the NHL coach adjudged to have contributed the most to his team's success (i.e. Coach of the Year). Named after player, coach and general manager Jack Adams. [21] Rick Tocchet Vancouver Canucks: Frank J. Selke Trophy: 1977–78: Awarded to the forward who best excels in the defensive aspects of the game.
This is the fourth time a Predators coach has been a finalist for the Jack Adams Award. Previous finalists include Peter Laviolette in 2015 and Barry Trotz in 2010 and 2011.
In one of the bigger surprises of the NHL Awards on Wednesday night, Barry Trotz - the head coach of the New York Islanders - won the Jack Adams Award.
Named in his honour, the Jack Adams Award was introduced in 1974 and is awarded annually to the most outstanding coach in the National Hockey League. Was the first recipient of the Lester Patrick Trophy in 1966. Inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1959. First All-Star Team Coach in 1937 & 1943. Second All-Star Team Coach in 1945.
In 2007 Chris Chelios was named the first annual winner of the Mark Messier Leadership Award, the award previously having been given on a monthly basis. [22] The Jack Adams Award, given to the best coach, is named for Jack Adams, long-time head coach and general manager of the club. [23]
Twenty-one Flyers players or coaches have received thirty annual individual awards from the league, most occurring during the 1970s and 1980s. The most frequently won awards include the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy, Conn Smythe Trophy, Hart Memorial Trophy, Jack Adams Award, and the Vezina Trophy, each won four times by Flyers players or coaches.