Coach Q A Finalist For Jack Adams Award

[tbo41fan]

http://espn.go.com/chicago/nhl/stor...reau-paul-maclean-joel-quenneville-jack-adams

NEW YORK -- Joel Quenneville, Bruce Boudreau and Paul MacLean have been announced as the finalists for the Jack Adams Award, given to the head coach who has contributed most to his team's success.

Quenneville led Chicago to a league-best 36-7-5 mark after opening the season by earning a point in each of its first 24 games, setting an NHL record. Quenneville previously won the award in 2000 with St. Louis.

In his first full season in Anaheim, Boudreau led the Ducks to the Pacific Division title and the second seed in the Western Conference playoffs. Anaheim was third overall in the NHL standings after finishing 25th the previous season. Boudreau previously won the award in 2008 with Washington.

MacLean, a finalist for the second straight year, led Ottawa to the No. 7 seed in the Eastern Conference while overcoming the prolonged absences of several key players.

 

[KBIB]

And he will win it.

The Hawks regular season was historic. You don't pick some guy who had lesser talent over the guy who coached his team into history. Doesn't work that way.You don't give a guy a negative because his team had better talent and pushed the record books in this day and age.

Sorry for fans of the other two coaches, but Q wins this one in a land slide.



Crane

 

[X]

And he will win it.

The Hawks regular season was historic. You don't pick some guy who had lesser talent over the guy who coached his team into history. Doesn't work that way.You don't give a guy a negative because his team had better talent and pushed the record books in this day and age.

Sorry for fans of the other two coaches, but Q wins this one in a land slide.



Crane

I'd like to think that is the way it would work. I guess we'll see.






Flamingo

 

[tbo41fan]

It is MacLean's to lose like it or not


Q should win it but I doubt he will

 

[KBIB]

It is MacLean's to lose like it or not

Um, why?

He took a bad team that got hit hard by injuries to the playoffs? Well, Q took a team that got hit by injuries into the record books with one of the best regular season records of all time. I don't buy MacLean only because he changed the entire system into a quasi trap that they teach you in pee wee. He didn't do anything extraordinary other then play top prospects in the slots that were reserved for vets. Q got the most out of players like Frolik and Kruger, incorporating them into the PK where they actually excelled while bringing along Leddy and Saad. The Sens had depth with serviceable vetrans and the luxury of playing in the East where their short comings wouldn't have been exploited like they would have been in the West.

Just looking at the Eastern playoff bracket, there are five teams that were pretenders and who shouldn't have been there who took advantage of the short schedule, The Sens, Habs, Leafs, Islanders, and Caps. All those teams are brutal. Every single one of them, and I would go as far as to say at least three of them wouldn't have even made the playoffs if it was a full season. MacLean deserves credit for making an entire system change, but nothing more. Q made history. You can say that the Hawks under achieved last year but they sure as hell didn't this year. Two regulation losses in a 48 game schedule is NHL2K type numbers. That is an insane statistic that, imo, trumps up the mere fact the Sens had a bunch of injuries and he improvised on the cuff.

Anybody with a hockey mind and a deep understanding of the quasi trap could have taken the Sens into the playoffs with that roster as a bottom seed. Losing two games in regulation while practicing pure domination from the first shift of the regular season, getting the Presidents Trophy with not a team close enough to make it even a smidge of a challenge? Not.So.Much.


Crane

 

[HawkWriter]

^^^ Blackhawks had 7 losses in regulation I believe. Still pretty incredible.

I'm with TBO. Looking at how the voters have voted in the past, I do think MacLean gets this even though Q deserves it for getting his team to show up almost every night. Voters seem to love the "did more with less" instead of "did a lot with more" type of coach/team.

 

[Franko725]

If Q wins, he should buy Carcillo something nice for getting hurt in the first game. Without that injury, lord knows how many games it would have been before Saad gets put on the first line creating one of the most dominating lines in the game today.

Highly doubt he wins though. Either of the other coaches are more likely winners due to the doing more with less theory.

 

[KBIB]

^^^ Blackhawks had 7 losses in regulation I believe. Still pretty incredible.

I'm with TBO. Looking at how the voters have voted in the past, I do think MacLean gets this even though Q deserves it for getting his team to show up almost every night. Voters seem to love the "did more with less" instead of "did a lot with more" type of coach/team.

You are correct, it was seven.

Ive tried simulating a 48 game season and only one time did I come close to what the Hawks accomplished this year, and that's with injuries turned off.

This idea that coaches who has less to work with is pure folly considering they are still NHL players to begin with.



Crane