Washington Capitals head Spencer Carbery was awarded the Jack Adams Award for the 2024-25 season after main Washington to a 51-22-9 report and the highest mark within the Japanese Convention with 111 factors, a 20-point achieve over the 2023-24 season the place Washington slipped into the postseason on the ultimate day of the season.
The award is voted on by members of the NHL Broadcasters’ Affiliation previous to the beginning of the NHL Playoffs. Carbery’s 464 voting factors have been a runaway winner over Scott Arniel of the Winnipeg Jets and Martin St. Louis of the Montreal Canadiens. Carbery obtained almost 80% of the first-place votes (81 out of 103). Arniel, a former Capitals assistant coach, completed in second place.
Carbery is the fourth Capitals head coach to win the Jack Adams Award. He joins Bryan Murray (1983-84), Bruce Boudreau (2007-08), and Barry Trotz (2015-16). Trotz additionally received the award in 2018-19, his first season teaching with the New York Islanders.
“Great honor, very humbling,” Carbery said when finalists have been introduced final month. “For us, I have a look at it as a workers and, for that matter, an organizational nomination.”
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Carbery is the primary head coach in professional hockey to win the coach of the 12 months award within the ECHL, the American Hockey League (AHL), and now the NHL. Washington’s bench boss received the John Brophy Award within the ECHL in 2013-14, the Louis A.R. Piers Memorial Award from the AHL in 2020-21, and this season’s Jack Adams Award from the NHL.
“The most effective indication is a whole lot of our guys had profession years, and I feel he’s an enormous a part of it,” Capitals general manager Chris Patrick stated throughout his end-of-season press availability. “I feel the connection between gamers and the coach all through our lineup was glorious this 12 months.”
Washington is predicted to return a similar-looking workforce to Capital One Enviornment in D.C. subsequent fall. According to PuckPedia, Washington is lower than $10 million underneath the wage cap for the 2025 offseason.
