The NHL has introduced that Rick Bowness (Winnipeg Jets), Andrew Brunette (Nashville Predators) and Rick Tocchet (Vancouver Canucks) have been named the finalists for the 2023-24 Jack Adams Award. The annual award honors the highest head coach within the NHL.
Bowness thrived in his second season because the Jets’ head coach as he helped lead the franchise to a 52-24-6 document (110 factors). It marked the second-highest regular-season level whole in group historical past, whereas additionally ending with the fourth-best document within the NHL. The Jets additionally tied a franchise document for wins (52) and set the franchise document for highway wins (25).
This was the 14th NHL season for Bowness as a head coach and his thirty sixth as a coach within the sport total. Bowness turns into the primary Jack Adams Award finalist in Jets/Atlanta Thrashers franchise historical past.
Brunette is in his first season because the Predators’ head coach and positively had an abundance of success. He led the Predators again to the postseason after lacking the Stanley Cup Playoffs in 2022-23. Brunette, who suited up for the franchise throughout his taking part in days, helped the Predators obtain a franchise-record 18-game level streak — the longest for the reason that Colorado Avalanche went 17-0-2 throughout a stretch in 2021-22.
That is the second time that Brunette has been a finalist for the Jack Adams Award as he was additionally honored whereas teaching the Florida Panthers in 2021-22. Brunette joins Barry Trotz and Peter Laviolette as the one head coaches in group historical past to be chosen as a Jack Adams finalist.
Lastly, Tocchet has had quite a lot of success early on in his tenure with the Canucks. In his first full season as Vancouver’s head coach, Tocchet led the Canucks to a 50-23-9 document (109 factors) and a Pacific Division title. The Canucks’ 109 factors had been the third-highest level whole in franchise historical past.
After ending twenty second within the total standings through the 2022-23 season, the Canucks developed into one of many NHL’s high groups and earned one of many two No. 1 seeds within the Western Convention. Tocchet joins Pat Quinn and Alain Vigneault as the one Jack Adams finalists in group historical past.
