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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.
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.
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.
The NHL announced today that Nashville Predators coach Andrew Brunette is one of three finalists for the Jack Adams Award, which goes to the league's coach of the year.. Brunette joins Vancouver's ...
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.
Ruff was the winner of the 2005–06 Jack Adams Award as coach of the year in the NHL. Tom Renney of the New York Rangers and Peter Laviolette of the Carolina Hurricanes were also nominated. Ruff won by one vote over then Cup-winning coach Laviolette in what is the closest vote in the award's history. [5] [6]
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.
After his playing career Boudreau went into coaching and won the Jack Adams Award for the NHL's most outstanding head coach in the 2007–08 NHL season during his tenure with the Capitals. Boudreau is the owner of two junior ice hockey teams, Minnesota Blue Ox and Hershey Cubs, in the United States Premier Hockey League (USPHL).