The Vancouver Canucks head coach Rick Tocchet has won the 2024 Jack Adams Award.
According to the National Hockey League, the award is presented annually by the NHL Broadcasters’ Association to the coach seen to have “contributed the most to [their] team’s success.”
The winner is determined by a poll among the association’s members at the end of the regular season.
Under Tocchet’s tutelage, the Canucks finished first in the Pacific Division. His 109-point season became the third highest scoring in franchise history.
During his first full year behind the bench, the Canucks posted the NHL’s best goal differential in the first period.
Tocchet is the third Adams winner in Canucks history, following Pat Quinn in 1992, and Alain Vigneault in 2007.
This is Tocchet’s first time as either a finalist or winner of the Jack Adams Award.
He beat out this year’s finalists, Winnipeg Jets coach Rick Bowness and Nashville Predator coach Andrew Brunette.