Jack Adams Award

Template:Short description Template:Featured list Template:Infobox sports 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 51 times to 43 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 honor 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 Template:Nhly regular season.

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. 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, 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 Template:Nhly, when the winner Lindy Ruff edged out Peter Laviolette by a single point.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Winners

Key

Scotty Bowman, winner for the 1976–77 and 1995–96 NHL seasons.

Pat Quinn, winner for the 1979–80 and 1991–92 NHL seasons.

Jacques Lemaire, winner for the 1993–94 and 2002–03 NHL seasons.

John Tortorella, winner for the 2003–04 and 2016–17 NHL seasons.

Barry Trotz, winner for the 2015–16 and 2018–19 NHL seasons.

Jack Adams Award winners

Season	Winner	Team	Win #
Template:Nhly	Template:SortnameTemplate:Efn	Philadelphia Flyers	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Los Angeles Kings	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Boston Bruins	1
Template:Nhly	Template:SortnameTemplate:EfnTemplate:Efn	Montreal Canadiens	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Detroit Red Wings	1
Template:Nhly	Template:SortnameTemplate:Efn	New York Islanders	1
Template:Nhly	Template:SortnameTemplate:EfnTemplate:Efn	Philadelphia Flyers	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	St. Louis Blues	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Winnipeg Jets	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Chicago Black Hawks	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Washington Capitals	1
Template:Nhly	Template:SortnameTemplate:EfnTemplate:Efn	Philadelphia Flyers	1
Template:Nhly	Template:SortnameTemplate:Efn	Edmonton Oilers	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Detroit Red Wings	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Detroit Red Wings	2
Template:Nhly	Template:SortnameTemplate:Efn	Montreal Canadiens	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Winnipeg Jets	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	St. Louis Blues	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Vancouver Canucks	2
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Toronto Maple Leafs	2
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	New Jersey Devils	1
Template:NhlyTemplate:Efn	Template:Sortname	Quebec Nordiques	1
Template:Nhly	Template:SortnameTemplate:Efn	Detroit Red Wings	2
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Buffalo Sabres	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Boston Bruins	3
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Ottawa Senators	1
Template:Nhly	Template:SortnameTemplate:Efn	St. Louis Blues	1
Template:Nhly	Template:SortnameTemplate:Efn	Philadelphia Flyers	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Phoenix Coyotes	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Minnesota Wild	2
Template:Nhly	Template:SortnameTemplate:Efn	Tampa Bay Lightning	1
Template:Nhly	Season cancelled due to the 2004–05 NHL lockout
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Buffalo Sabres	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Vancouver Canucks	1
Template:Nhly	Template:SortnameTemplate:Efn	Washington Capitals	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Boston Bruins	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Phoenix Coyotes	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Pittsburgh Penguins	1
Template:Nhly	Template:SortnameTemplate:Efn	St. Louis Blues	1
Template:NhlyTemplate:Efn	Template:Sortname	Ottawa Senators	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Colorado Avalanche	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Calgary Flames	1
Template:Nhly	Template:SortnameTemplate:Efn	Washington Capitals	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Columbus Blue Jackets	2
Template:Nhly	Template:SortnameTemplate:Efn	Vegas Golden Knights	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	New York Islanders	2
Template:NhlyTemplate:Efn	Template:SortnameTemplate:Efn	Boston Bruins	1
Template:NhlyTemplate:Efn	Template:Sortname	Carolina Hurricanes	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Calgary Flames	1
Template:Nhly	Template:SortnameTemplate:Efn	Boston Bruins	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Vancouver Canucks	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Washington Capitals	1

See also

• List of National Hockey League awards
• List of NHL head coaches

External links

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