Capitals' Spencer Carbery wins Jack Adams Award as NHL coach of the
year
The Canadian Press | Posted: June 7, 2025 6:04 PM | Last
Updated: 17 hours ago
Victoria native is the 1st person to be named coach of the year
in NHL, AHL and ECHL
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Caption: In his second season running an NHL bench, Spencer
Carbery guided Washington to first place in the Eastern
Conference. (Jim Rassol/The Associated Press)
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Spencer Carbery of the Washington Capitals has won the Jack
Adams Award as the NHL's coach of the year.
The league announced the honour Saturday after members of
Carbery's family surprised him with the trophy earlier in the
week. Carbery is the first person to be named coach of the year
in the NHL, American Hockey League and ECHL.
Carbery was a runaway winner of the Jack Adams as voted on by
the league's broadcasters, receiving 81 of 103 first-place
votes. Winnipeg's Scott Arniel was second and Montreal's Martin
St. Louis a distant third.
In his second season running an NHL bench, the Victoria native
guided Washington to first place in the Eastern Conference. He
helped several players set career highs as the Capitals reached
the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
"The best thing indication is a lot of our guys had career
years, and I think he's a big part of it: the way he
communicates, the way he holds guys accountable, the way he can
fit guys into certain roles and use their strengths," Capitals
general manager Chris Patrick said at his end-of-season news
conference. "I think the relationship between the players and
the coach throughout our lineup was excellent this year."
When he was named a finalist last month, Carbery said it was an
organizational award.
"I look at our entire staff and everything that they put in,
our players, management to provide the players everything,"
Carbery said. "It's for my name to be there as the figurehead
of the organization, but I look at that to me that's a
team-nominated award of what we've done as a coaching staff,
management team, our players, what they've accomplished in the
regular season."
Carbery drew praise from counterparts around the league for how
he got an aging roster into the postseason in his first season
in Washington and took it to another level by transforming the
Capitals into one of the league's top teams.
"He's turned them into a deep, four-line juggernaut that just
wins hockey games," said Tampa Bay's Jon Cooper, the
longest-tenured coach in the league who won the Stanley Cup in
2020 and '21 and has made two other trips to the final. "They
do everything right. There's no egos on the team and he's found
a way to coach a Hall of Fame superstar and coach players that
are just surviving to be in the lineup every night and he's
found a way to make it all work."
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