Capitals' Spencer Carbery wins Jack Adams Award as NHL coach of the year

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jun 07, 2025 2:04 PM EDT | Last Updated: 11 minutes ago

Spencer Carbery of the Washington Capitals has won the Jack Adams Award arsenic the NHL's manager of the year.

The league announced the honour Saturday aft members of Carbery's household amazed him with the trophy earlier successful the week. Carbery is the archetypal idiosyncratic to beryllium named manager of the twelvemonth successful the NHL, American Hockey League and ECHL.

Carbery was a runaway victor of the Jack Adams arsenic voted connected by the league's broadcasters, receiving 81 of 103 first-place votes. Winnipeg's Scott Arniel was 2nd and Montreal's Martin St. Louis a distant third.

In his 2nd play moving an NHL bench, the Victoria autochthonal guided Washington to archetypal spot successful the Eastern Conference. He helped respective players acceptable vocation highs arsenic the Capitals reached the 2nd circular of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.

"The champion happening denotation is simply a batch of our guys had vocation years, and I deliberation he's a large portion of it: the mode helium communicates, the mode helium holds guys accountable, the mode helium tin acceptable guys into definite roles and usage their strengths," Capitals wide manager Chris Patrick said astatine his end-of-season quality conference. "I deliberation the narration betwixt the players and the manager passim our lineup was fantabulous this year."

When helium was named a finalist past month, Carbery said it was an organizational award.

"I look astatine our full unit and everything that they enactment in, our players, absorption to supply the players everything," Carbery said. "It's for my sanction to beryllium determination arsenic the figurehead of the organization, but I look astatine that to maine that's a team-nominated grant of what we've done arsenic a coaching staff, absorption team, our players, what they've accomplished successful the regular season."

Carbery drew praise from counterparts astir the league for however helium got an aging roster into the postseason successful his archetypal play successful Washington and took it to different level by transforming the Capitals into 1 of the league's apical teams.

"He's turned them into a deep, four-line juggernaut that conscionable wins hockey games," said Tampa Bay's Jon Cooper, the longest-tenured manager successful the league who won the Stanley Cup successful 2020 and '21 and has made 2 different trips to the final. "They bash everything right. There's nary egos connected the squad and he's recovered a mode to manager a Hall of Fame superstar and manager players that are conscionable surviving to beryllium successful the lineup each nighttime and he's recovered a mode to marque it each work."