Jack Adams Award Finalists

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Alain Vigneault
Barry Trotz
Dan Bylsma

Surprised Guy Boucher didn't top 3, but any one of the above deserve it as much as he does.

Surprisingly (as I type this wearing a Canucks jersey,) I'm pulling for Alain least of these 3. Trotz is long due, and Bylsma's worth some due as well for his work this year.
 
Kharlamov17 said:
Ditto. Boucher should have been in before Bylsma.
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I think Boucher should've been in, but over Vigneault. Going into the season, it was a given the Canucks were going to make the playoffs, and yeah, I'd even say that to most people in the know about the Canucks, you'd expect them to be somewhere in the top 3 of the league standings.

Even though the Canucks did win the President's Trophy by a wide margin, it wasn't that surprising.

The wonders Bylsma, Trotz and Boucher worked with what they had though?

Bylsma had 3 of the team's 4 most key players and Mike Comrie with lengthy absences and still came out looking pretty good until last week.
 
Guy Boucher would have been a good top 3 in my opinion. Out of the list I think I would go with Bylsma, his team was supposed to fade away and die a slow death but they managed to hang in there until the first round before they faded away and died a slow death.
 
I think Bylsma wins in a landslide. Not many teams could do what the Pens did with their 2 best players missing for half a season. I expected them to roll over and give up, but they kept fighting and with a little better luck, would still be playing right now. I will also commend the Pens organization by not hitting the panic button and bringing Crosby back to early (other than the game after the Winter Classic...dummies). That had to be a hard thing to do.
 
koondog44 said:
I think Bylsma wins in a landslide. Not many teams could do what the Pens did with their 2 best players missing for half a season. I expected them to roll over and give up, but they kept fighting and with a little better luck, would still be playing right now. I will also commend the Pens organization by not hitting the panic button and bringing Crosby back to early (other than the game after the Winter Classic...dummies). That had to be a hard thing to do.
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Well said.The best thing they could've done was leave
Sid out like they did.Because of this and Malkin,Bylsma
would get my vote by a landslide.
 
My dad coached college hockey for 30 years and often we had the discussion around such awards. It always drove him nuts that this award was most generally given to the coach that was viewed as doing the most with the least, so to speak.

I haven't talked to him but likely he will be sour to some degree that a guy like Mike Babcock is not in the discussion with the job that he has done in Detroit and likely he would be quick to tell you that AV took a team that has historically been an middle of the road team and had significant injuries to overcome and dominated the league from start to finish.

I am on the fence a bit - Bylsma is probably the guy in my mind as there are about five guys on that team that would even make the Canucks team and he somehow led them to the playoffs again.

At the end of the day - there are a lot of great coaches in this league and a lot of guys had pretty dang good years, Tippett, Boucher, Crawford, Murray, Torts, Babcock, Quinville, Ruff, Carlyle, etc.
 
Let's see, how would these teams have done without these players:

Wash- Ovechkin, Backstrom
Phil - Carter, Richards
Van - Sedin, Sedin
Det - Zetterberg, Datsyuk
Tam - Stamkos, St. Louis

See where I'm going with this? Also, don't forget Staal and Orpik also missed considerable time along with other key players.

Disco Dan in a landslide.
 
Barry Trotz does it every year with no forwards let alone superstar ones. He has 2 defensemen and a decent goalie followed by an AHL team.
 
lumm0x said:
Barry Trotz does it every year with no forwards let alone superstar ones. He has 2 defensemen and a decent goalie followed by an AHL team.
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Interesting. So, you think no one would be interested in the free agency of Hornqvist, Erat, Legwand, Kostitsyn or Mike Fisher?
 
lstcyr said:
Interesting. So, you think no one would be interested in the free agency of Hornqvist, Erat, Legwand, Kostitsyn or Mike Fisher?
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Sure I do. I was openly exaggerating, but some of those players would be questionable to break top 6 on any other contending team. Horny and Legwand the possible exceptions to me. But you have to admit that Nashville has no superstar forwards. I don't consider any of those guys first line material on any team left in the playoffs. Every team remaining has 3 better forwards than anyone on that list.

Kostitsyn could have been had for a song last year. I was commenting on the strength of Barry Trotz as a coach, making the most out of the least. He is a great coach in my opinion. He doesn't need superstars to compete against superstars. He develops a system, his players are accountable to it, and he schemes to give himself the best chance to beat an opponent.
 
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lumm0x said:
Horny and Legwand the possible exceptions to me. But you have to admit that Nashville has no superstar forwards. I don't consider any of those guys first line material on any team left in the playoffs. Every team remaining has 3 better forwards than anyone on that list.

I was commenting on the strength of Barry Trotz as a coach, making the most out of the least. He is a great coach in my opinion.
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Don't disagree with some of what you're saying though even Trotz would have a problem without talented players. While the players listed would probably not make a first line with any of the other contenders, how many wouldn't like to upgrade their second and third lines with some of the Preds?

As, I believe, we saw with Chicago, it's a team sport and the better bottom lines get you further.

We're saying the same thing in different ways I think. Would love to see Trotz finally get recognition for what he's done.
 

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