In a season where many players and coaches can be nominated for individual awards, each of the nominated coaches for the Jack Adams could win. The finalists were Rick Bowness of the Winnipeg Jets, Andrew Brunette of the Nashville Predators, and Rick Tocchet of the Vancouver Canucks.
Despite an impressive coaching performance by Kris Knoblauch of the Edmonton Oilers, he finds himself excluded from the finalists for the 2023-24 Jack Adams Award.
Here’s the funny thing about the Vancouver Canucks and their largely-unexpected success thus far in 2023/24: Had any of us been asked at the outset of
As we reach the conclusion of the 2023-24 season, it’s hard to envision a world where Rick Tocchet doesn’t win the Jack Adams Award for coach of the year.
The Vancouver Canucks head into 2024, and into the back-half of the 2023/24 regular season, with plenty to play for. Making — and then making some noise in — the playoff is obvious first and foremost on the goals-list.
When NHL pundits were making their cases ahead of the 2023-24 season for which head coach would win the next Jack Adams Award, Rick Tocchet didn't come up in many discussions. How times have changed.
On Thursday, the NHL Coaches’ Association awarded the New York Rangers with coaching staff of the month honors for October. Over the course of the opening month of the NHL season, the Rangers amassed a 8-2-0 record for a 0.800 points percentage.
Even though the Stanley Cup Playoffs are ongoing, it is award season. So far the league has come out with the Selke Trophy, Calder Trophy nominees. and Norris Trophy .
Since Mike Sullivan took over as the head coach of Pittsburgh Penguins midway through the 2015-16 season, only the Tampa Bay Lightning (291 wins) and Washington Capitals (286) have won more regular-season games than his team (285), and the Lightning are the lone organization to best the Penguins in terms of postseason games played and won.
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