[News] Jack Adams Finalists - Babcock, McLellan and Tortorella

[Machiavelli]

Originally Posted by Textcritic

It is not sexy, but their forward group is quite deep. CBJ had ten forwards who scored 10 or more goals.

About half of them had career years, which should be a testament to coaching

[SofaProfessor]

Originally Posted by AC

Bob Hartley 2 years ago...

Got any more recent examples, wise guy?

[activeStick]

Originally Posted by Textcritic

It is not sexy, but their forward group is quite deep. CBJ had ten forwards who scored 10 or more goals.

Darryl Sutter, is that you?

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger

I'd give it to Babcock. Even if he has good pieces, I think he's proven that he's probably the best hockey coach in the world right now.

A hundred percent. The only other guy who arguably deserved it was Boudreau. I guess you could make a decent case for Trotz.

It should absolutely not be Tortorella - he rode a lucky power play and a hot goalie to an obscene record through the first half and then the team was mediocre the rest of the way.

[GioforPM]

I would have eliminated either Babcock or McLelland for Trotz, who I think did a great job.

Those guys are only because of the "hey a team that never makes the POs made the POs" factor (which arguably got Hartley his as well, except Hartley didn't have the FOAs and other high picks in his lineup).

Torts is just not a good coach IMO.