In current days, the NHL has been revealing a few of its end-of-season award winners heading into subsequent week’s NHL Awards present. Saturday, the league announced that Capitals head coach Spencer Carbery has gained the 2025 Jack Adams Award as “the NHL coach adjudged to have contributed probably the most to his group’s success,” as chosen by the NHL Broadcasters’ Affiliation.
Carbery just lately wrapped up his second season behind the bench in Washington and it was a really profitable one. After the Capitals put up 91 factors in 2023-24, they had been 20 factors higher this 12 months, good for tops within the Metropolitan Division and the Jap Convention whereas ending second total to Winnipeg. They improved considerably offensively with a leap of 68 objectives in comparison with the 12 months earlier than whereas being one of many high squads in objective differential and penalty killing. Whereas voting was finished earlier than the playoffs, Washington made it to the second spherical earlier than being ousted by Carolina.
With that enchancment, Carbery was the runaway winner for the award, ending with 81 first-place votes out of 103 and appeared on all however one poll, good for 464 voting factors. He turns into the fourth Washington coach to win the Jack Adams, becoming a member of Bryan Murray (1984), Bruce Boudreau (2008), and Barry Trotz (2016). Carbery additionally turns into the primary head coach to win Coach of the 12 months at the entire ECHL, AHL, and NHL ranges.
Jets head coach Scott Arniel completed second within the voting, garnering a complete of 16 first-place choices whereas being on 81 ballots total, incomes him 249 voting factors. Canadiens bench boss Martin St. Louis was the opposite finalist however got here a distant third with simply two first-place choices and 66 voting factors whereas being picked on 34 ballots. Jim Montgomery (Blues) and Dean Evason (Blue Jackets) rounded out the highest 5.
The NHL Awards present will run previous to Sport 4 of the Oilers/Panthers sequence at 5 p.m. CT on Thursday with the total checklist of all award winners being revealed at the moment.
