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Originally Posted by Badger Bob

Fair point of discussion.

Let's look at the winners:
http://www.hockey-reference.com/awards/adams.html

Big names, who won it twice include Scotty Bowman, Jacques Demers, Jacques Lemaire and Pat Quinn. HOFers Al Arbour, Fred Shero and Glen Sather only won it once each. Among active coaches, Joel Quenneville only won it when he coached in St. Louis! Yeah, it's understood that the voting is completed before the post-season, but the man's won 2 Cups since. He must be doing something right in Chicago.

We can figure where Pat Burns fits in the grand scheme. It is interesting that nobody's won it twice since the last time Burns won it.

Edit: for argument's sake, a little research was required on the trophy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Adams_Award



Although it is impressive to have won the award 3x, how meaningful is the award, itself? Are broadcasters really the most qualified to judge how good of a job a coach does? Many of these broadcasters would have seen little of the teams in the other conference. (Results are skewed toward the East.) Maybe there's no better way to guage. My first thought was to poll the coaches, themselves. Then, how to account for coaching changes during the season?

You make really good points here. Scotty Bowman only won it twice but he made the playoffs 28 times and won 9 Stanley Cups. I don't think anyone would ever assume for a second that Burns is a better coach than Bowman because he won the Jack Adams one more time. Out of all the trophies given out it definitely seems to be the one most open to interpretation. If you look at Wikipedia it shows that only four times has the Jack Adams winner coached the team that went on to win the Stanley Cup that season. That seems insanely low.