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Originally Posted by BagoPucks
Surprised to see no Trotz
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I'm not. The Jack Adams is not the award for the best coach. It's the award for the team the media didn't expect to be very good, that ended up being very good, and because the media can't possibly have misjudged the quality of the team, the only explanation is that the coach got more out of that group of players than they could have accomplished without such great coaching. It's the "outperformed expectations" trophy.
That was the Islanders a couple of years ago, but no one is surprised by who the Islanders are anymore.