Vancouver Canucks coach wins prestigious Jack Adams Award

Vancouver Canucks head coach Rick Tocchet has won the prestigious 2024 Jack Adams Award, the NHL announced Wednesday.

Under Tocchet’s tutelage — his first season with the team — the Canucks finished first in the Pacific Division, and the Canucks posted the NHL’s best goal differential in first periods.

He beat out this year’s finalists Winnipeg Jets coach Rick Bowness and Nashville Predator coach Andrew Brunette.

Tocchet is the third Adams winner in Canucks history, following Pat Quinn in 1992, and Alain Vigneault in 2007.

The award is presented annually by the NHL Broadcasters’ Association to the coach seen to have “contributed the most to [their] team’s success.”

This is Tocchet’s first time as either a finalist or winner of the Jack Adams Award.

The winner of the prestigious award is determined by a poll among the association’s members at the end of the regular season.