Jack Adams Award winners
Winners of the Jack Adams Award, awarded to the league's coach of the year as voted by the National Hockey League Broadcasters' Association:
2012 -- Ken Hitchcock, St. Louis
2011 -- Dan Bylsma, Pittsburgh
2010 -- Dave Tippett, Phoenix
2009 -- Claude Julien, Boston
2008 -- Bruce Boudreau, Washington
2007 -- Alain Vigneault, Vancouver
2006 -- Lindy Ruff, Buffalo
2005 -- Lockout
2004 -- John Tortorella, Tampa Bay
2003 -- Jacques Lemaire, Minnesota
2002 -- Bob Francis, Phoenix
2001 -- Bill Barber, Philadelphia
2000 -- Joel Quenneville, St. Louis
1999 -- Jacques Martin, Ottawa
1998 -- Pat Burns, Boston
1997 -- Ted Nolan, Buffalo
1996 -- Scotty Bowman, Detroit
1995 -- Marc Crawford, Quebec
1994 -- Jacques Lemaire, New Jersey
1993 -- Pat Burns, Toronto
1992 -- Pat Quinn, Vancouver
1991 -- Brian Sutter, St. Louis
1990 -- Bob Murdoch, Winnipeg
1989 -- Pat Burns, Montreal
1988 -- Jacques Demers, Detroit
1987 -- Jacques Demers, Detroit
1986 -- Glen Sather, Edmonton
1985 -- Mike Keenan, Philadelphia
1984 -- Bryan Murray, Washington
1983 -- Orval Tessier, Chicago
1982 -- Tom Watt, Winnipeg
1981 -- Red Berenson, St. Louis
1980 -- Pat Quinn, Philadelphia
1979 -- Al Arbour, N.Y. Islanders
1978 -- Bobby Kromm, Detroit
1977 -- Scotty Bowman, Montreal
1976 -- Don Cherry, Boston
1975 -- Bob Pulford, Los Angeles
1974 -- Fred Shero, Philadelphia
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