Spencer Carbery of the Washington Capitals is the 2024-25 recipient of the Jack Adams Award as “the NHL coach adjudged to have contributed essentially the most to his staff’s success,” as chosen by the NHL Broadcasters’ Affiliation, the league introduced on Saturday morning.
Carbery believed he was sitting down for an end-of-season interview when members of his household – together with his spouse and kids – stunned him with the trophy.
Carbery is the fourth Washington head coach to win the Jack Adams Award, following Bryan Murray (1983-84), Bruce Boudreau (2007-08) and Barry Trotz (2015-16). He additionally turns into the primary particular person to seize coach of the yr honors on the ECHL, AHL and NHL ranges, after successful the ECHL’s John Brophy Award in 2013-14 (South Carolina Stingrays) and the AHL’s Louis A.R. Pieri Memorial Award in 2020-21 (Hershey Bears).
The second-year Capitals head coach was a runaway winner, receiving 81 first-place votes among the many 103 ballots forged for 464 voting factors. Scott Arniel of the Winnipeg Jets garnered 16 first-place votes in ending second with 249 factors, adopted by Martin St. Louis of the Montreal Canadiens (66 factors).
Carbery led the Capitals (51-22-9, 111 factors) to the No. 2 general file within the NHL in addition to the highest seed within the Japanese Convention for the primary time since 2016-17. After seeing an 11-point enchancment throughout his first season, Washington jumped 20 factors this yr – the third-largest achieve from 2023-24 behind solely Columbus (+23) and Anaheim (+21). The Capitals additionally boasted a 68-goal enchancment in whole offense (together with shootout-deciding targets), rising from twenty eighth place in 2023-24 (220) to second this season (288). The staff moreover completed among the many League leaders in comeback wins (1st; 25), highway factors (t-1st; 53), aim differential (t-Third; +56), penalty killing (fifth; 82.0%), residence factors (seventh; 58) and targets in opposition to (ninth; 232, together with shootout-deciding targets).
One of the best gamers and coaches from the 2024-25 season will probably be celebrated within the 2025 NHL Awards, a one-hour particular that can premiere on Thursday, June 12, at 6 p.m. ET on TNT within the U.S. and Sportsnet in Canada, earlier than Sport 4 of the Stanley Cup Closing. The present will spotlight all NHL Award winners this season, together with Carbery and others revealed in a collection of particular shock video bulletins throughout all League platforms main as much as the June 12 program.
