Jack Adams Award

Lore & Background

Jacques Demers is the only coach to win the award in consecutive seasons. Five coaches have won the award with two teams: Pat Burns, Jacques Lemaire, Pat Quinn, Barry Trotz, and John Tortorella have won the award twice. Pat Burns is the only coach to win the Adams Award three times, as well as the only coach to win it with three different teams. The franchises with the most Jack Adams Award winners are the Washington Capitals, Philadelphia Flyers, Detroit Red Wings, and Boston Bruins with three winners each, and the Phoenix Coyotes with two winners. Bill Barber, Bruce Boudreau, and Ken Hitchcock are not the only coaches to win the award after replacing the head coach who started the season; for example, Pat Burns won with Boston in 1997–98 after replacing Steve Kasper mid-season. The closest vote occurred in 2006–07, when the winner Lindy Ruff edged out Peter Laviolette by a single point.

In Their Own Story

The ice in the Wells Fargo Center was still wet from the Zamboni's pass when the coach walked off the bench, stick tucked under one arm, breath fogging in the cold air. Behind him, the crowd's roar had thinned to a low hum, the kind that settles over a team that just outplayed its opponent in a 4-2 win but knows the season is far from over. A reporter in the tunnel held up a notepad, asking the usual question—'How do you feel about the coaching award this year?'—and the coach just smiled, shook his head, and pointed back toward the bench where a young forward was still lacing his skates, grinning like the whole league was his to command. The Jack Adams, when it comes, is never the point. The point is the twenty-two skaters who trust the man on the bench enough to play like that, night after night, in a city that has waited decades for that exact feeling to return.

Reader's Guide

Winners Key upright|thumb|Scotty Bowman, winner for the 1976–77 and 1995–96 NHL seasons. upright|thumb|Pat Quinn, winner for the 1979–80 and 1991–92 NHL seasons. upright|thumb|Jacques Lemaire, winner for the 1993–94 and 2002–03 NHL seasons. upright|thumb|John Tortorella, winner for the 2003–04 and 2016–17 NHL seasons. upright|thumb|Barry Trotz, winner for the 2015–16 and 2018–19 NHL seasons. See also List of National Hockey League awards List of NHL head coaches Notes References External links *

Did You Know?

• The Jack Adams Award was first awarded at the conclusion of the 1973–74 regular season.
• The winner is selected by a poll of the National Hockey League Broadcasters Association.
• Jack Adams was a 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.