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Jack Adams Award Finalists
by Alanah McGinley on 05/01/09 at 12:03 PM ET
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From NHL.com:
San Jose Sharks coach Todd McLellan and Boston Bruins coach Claude Julien, who led the NHL’s top two teams this season, and Andy Murray, who lifted the St. Louis Blues to a surprising Stanley Cup Playoff berth, are the three finalists for the 2009 Jack Adams Award in voting by the NHL Broadcasters’ Association.
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I am starting to think that we should have 5 finalists for all the awards. So many years it seems that there are more than 3 worthy candidates for awards like the Adams and the Calder.
Posted by squirtholio on 05/01/09 at 12:22 PM ET
Claude Julien FTW, although Murray will probably win it.
Posted by PuckHound61 from Speckville USA on 05/01/09 at 12:34 PM ET
As much as I hate the Panthers, am I the only one that thinks Peter DaBoer did the most with the least-talented team?
Posted by Todd from Tampa on 05/01/09 at 12:46 PM ET
Todd -
I, for one, felt Florida underachieved most of the year. They should have been a playoff team. They have enough talent in all areas to have made it into the Top 8 in the East.
Of the 3 named, Todd is obviously out of our consideration thanks to the huge choke job. That l;eaves the surprising Blues, and Julien at the helm of the strong Bruins. Right now I’d give the edge to Murray. If Julien had what Murray has to work with, Julien wouldn’t have even gone .500.
Posted by Primis on 05/01/09 at 12:58 PM ET
Everyone remember that these aren’t nominees, the voting is completed once the season finishes. These are the three coaches that received the most votes, thus finalists.
So even if Andy Murray had pulled off a miracle Cup run, it wouldn’t factor into voting.
Posted by Mike Chen on 05/01/09 at 01:37 PM ET
I could coach the red wings to the Cup
Posted by Steve on 05/01/09 at 03:25 PM ET
It’s easy to say a monkey could coach a talented a team to a Cup. When push came to shove, though, Tony Granato couldn’t take the ultra-talented early-2000s Avs far.
Posted by Mike Chen on 05/01/09 at 03:32 PM ET
Why would MCClellan out of your consideration at all? This award has nothing to do with the playoffs or they would vote for this in June. Not to say I think he should win it but most awards are for regular season… of course, I’m sure you knew that…
I digress… Murray should win it for the team he had to work with all year. A ton of injuries to a lot of players while only one defenseman played more than 69 games. Yet they were still in sixth place. By Primis’s deduction, Murray shouldn’t get it either because they got swept in four.
Posted by Matt Fry from Winnipeg on 05/02/09 at 05:05 PM ET
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Mike Babcock is just going to have to keep winning championships for Detroit and Canada until the Broadcasters are forced to let him win the Adams Trophy.
Posted by w2j2 on 05/01/09 at 12:20 PM ET