{"id":80360,"date":"2020-07-15T13:49:50","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T17:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=80360"},"modified":"2020-07-30T13:49:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T17:49:02","slug":"nhl-announces-jack-adams-award-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2020\/07\/15\/nhl-announces-jack-adams-award-finalists\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Announces Jack Adams Award Finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NHL has revealed the three finalists for the 2019\u201320 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/a\/adamsja01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Jack Adams<\/strong><\/a> Award for coach of the year, voted by the broadcasters. This year&#8217;s candidates are the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/bruins\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Boston Bruins<\/a>&#8216; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/coaches\/cassibr01c.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Bruce Cassidy<\/strong><\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/blue-jackets\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Columbus Blue Jackets<\/a>&#8216; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/coaches\/tortojo99c.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>John Tortorella<\/strong><\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/flyers\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Philadelphia Flyers<\/a>&#8216; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/v\/vigneal01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Alain Vigneault<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The 2020 Jack Adams Award finalists are Bruce Cassidy, John Tortorella and Alain Vigneault\u2757 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NHLAwards?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#NHLAwards<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CXu9NJ0JCo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/CXu9NJ0JCo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/i4pqpeVmWP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/i4pqpeVmWP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NHL (@NHL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHL\/status\/1283441733540478977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 15, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #111111; font-size: 27px;\">NHL Reveals Jack Adams Award Finalists<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Jack Adams Award is presented to the coach who has contributed the most to his team&#8217;s success. The award is in memory of the late Jack Adams, an eight-time Stanley Cup champion (two as a player, six as a coach). The Hockey Hall of Fame inducted Adams in 1959. Adams played for the Toronto Arenas and Ottawa Senators from 1917\u201327. He later coached the Detroit Red Wings from 1927\u20131947 where he won 413 games.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/coaches\/trotzba99c.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Barry Trotz<\/strong><\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/islanders\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Islanders<\/a> won the award last season after leading his club to a 48-27-7 record and second in the Metropolitan Division.<\/p>\n<h3>Bruce Cassidy<\/h3>\n<p>Cassidy&#8217;s Bruins finished atop the NHL with exactly 100 points in 70 games off a 44-14-12 record. Boston was on pace for 117 points in 2019\u201320. The total would&#8217;ve tied the team&#8217;s most points in a season since the 2013\u201314 season. Cassidy, who has never won the award, replaced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/coaches\/juliecl01c.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Claude Julien<\/strong><\/a> in 2017 and was named the new head coach in the following months. Cassidy and the Bruins are now awaiting an opponent from the Stanley Cup Qualifying Round.<\/p>\n<h3>John Tortorella<\/h3>\n<p>Tortorella coached the Blue Jackets to an impressive 33-22-15 record after losing star players <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/duchema01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Matt Duchene<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/bobrose01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Sergei Bobrovsky<\/strong><\/a>, and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/panarar01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Artemi Panarian<\/a><\/strong> in free agency. He is a two-time winner of the Jack Adams Award, winning in 2003\u201304 with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/lightning\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> and in 2016\u201317 with the Columbus Blue Jackets. Tortorella joined the Blue Jackets in the 2015\u201316 season. He had lead Columbus to the postseason in four of his five years as their head coach. Columbus and Tortorella are set to the play the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/maple-leafs\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> in the Stanley Cup Qualifying Round.<\/p>\n<h3>Alain Vigneault<\/h3>\n<p>In his first season behind the Flyers bench, Vigneault led his team to a second-place finish in the Metropolitan Division. Philadelphia&#8217;s 41-21-7 record surprised many around the league after finishing sixth in their division last season. Vigneault&#8217;s coached in the NHL for 17 seasons and for four teams. He won the Jack Adams Award back in 2006\u201307 as head coach of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/canucks\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vancouver Canucks<\/a>. Vigneault and Philadelphia are awaiting an opponent from the Stanley Cup Qualifying Round.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo: <a id=\"V_c-DSw_Rl9uadGqRMOW7g\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/1153122407\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'V_c-DSw_Rl9uadGqRMOW7g',sig:'Wc1fwXKUEB1c-HAEwd4VzwLWKeMdG9qobUtS2jPbWyU=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1153122407',caption: true ,tld:'ca',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NHL has revealed the three finalists for the 2019\u201320 Jack Adams Award for coach of the year, voted by the broadcasters. This year&#8217;s candidates are the Boston Bruins&#8216; Bruce Cassidy, the Columbus Blue Jackets&#8216; John Tortorella, and the Philadelphia Flyers&#8216; Alain Vigneault. The 2020 Jack Adams Award finalists are Bruce Cassidy, John Tortorella and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2619,"featured_media":80362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11,4547,34,4548,16],"tags":[408,1500,90,1574,111,1141,663,126],"class_list":["post-80360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bruins","category-bluejackets","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","category-flyers","tag-alain-vigneault","tag-barry-trotz","tag-boston-bruins","tag-bruce-cassidy","tag-columbus-blue-jackets","tag-jack-adams-award","tag-john-tortorella","tag-philadelphia-flyers"],"modified_by":"Nik Kowalski, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2619"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}