Calgary Flames coach Darryl Sutter has won the 2022 Jack Adams Award, given to the coach of the year. It’s the first time in his illustrious career that he’s won the award.
Beating out finalists Andrew Brunette (Florida Panthers) and Gerard Gallant (New York Rangers), Sutter is in the second year of his second stint as head coach of the Flames. In 112 games since stepping back behind the Flames bench, Sutter’s now guided the team to a 65-36-11 record, including a Pacific Division title this year. This year’s 50-win campaign was the first such season for Calgary since 2018-19, when the team lost in the First Round. The team’s .677 points percentage this season, though, is the best since the team won the Stanley Cup in 1988-89. Despite bowing out in the Second Round to the Edmonton Oilers, Sutter created a deep, hard-working team out of players who largely underperformed last season in the COVID-shortened year.
Per The Fourth Period’s David Pagnotta, Sutter had 54 first-place votes for the award. Brunette had 31, while Gallant had 12. Other coaches receiving first-place votes were Minnesota’s Dean Evason (seven), Colorado’s Jared Bednar (six), Los Angeles’ Todd McLellan (five), Carolina’s 2021 winner Rod Brind’Amour (two), Pittsburgh’s Mike Sullivan (two), Tampa Bay’s Jon Cooper (one), and Nashville’s John Hynes (one).
Really couldn’t go wrong with any of them.
(I guess I’m suppose to say that.)
Did Brunette even change Quennsville’s system?
Or did he come in second for NOT crashing a well oiled machine into a ditch?
Gallant doesn’t want the Jack Adams. Only one he wants…
Although it is almost a certainty that you don’t know Gerard Gallant, thanks for pretending to be an insider who knows what he is thinking. You guys are amusing that way.
Dog hockey you say I don’t know Turk well I sit with him and have coffee every summer he is home on the Island…He has already won the Jack Adams so I really think He is a Players coach so yes I will say only one trophy he wants this year…also you say we are not much of hockey insiders look around dude…but we will call you next time we need a mastermind….
How Jon Cooper gets one vote!?
Coach of the year goes to coach on the team that finished decent that was supposed to be poor/mediocre. Cooper could have had them go 82-0 and still be hard pressed to win considering their previous success.
I applaud the person who voted for John Hynes. Getting that roster into the playoffs deserves at least one vote. :D
I would’ve gone with Gallant.
The implication is that the voters think more highly of the Rangers than the analysts