The NHL announced on Friday that Washington Capitals head coach Spencer Carbery is one of three finalists for the Jack Adams Award.
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The Jack Adams Award goes to the head coach who has "adjudged to have contributed the most to his team's success" and is voted on by the members of the NHL Broadcasters' Association.
The other two finalists for this award are Winnipeg Jets head coach Scott Arniel and Montreal Canadiens head coach Martin St. Louis.
Carberby is a finalist of the award for the first time and is vying to become the fourth head coach in Capitals franchise history to win the Jack Adams Award, joining Bryan Murray (1983-84), Bruce Boudreau (2007-08) and Barry Trotz (2015-16).
Carbery guided the Capitals to a record of 51-22-9 this season which is good for 111 points as the team finished first in the Metropolitan Division and Eastern Conference and second in the NHL.
The Capitals improved by 20 points in Carbery's second season behind he bench as they had 91 in his first season. It marked the third largest point improvement by a team from 2023-24 to 2024-25 (Columbus Blue Jackets: +23, Anaheim Ducks: +21).
Washington's 51 wins and 111 points were the fourth most in a single season in franchise history behind only the team's Presdients' Trophy campaigns in 2009-10, 2015-16, and 2016-17.
The Capitals opening night lineup featured seven new players. The Caps ranked second in the NHL in goals for with 286 after ranking 28th the previous year with 216.
Washington ranked tied for eighth in the NHL in goals against per game this season at 2.79 making them one of seven teams to rank in the top 10 in goals for per game (3.49, 2nd) and goals against per game.
The Capitals also ranked first in the NHL in comeback wins with 25, tied for second in road wins with 25, tied for third in goal differential at +56 and tied for fourth in penalty kill percentage at 82.0 percent.
Carbery won the Louis A.R. Pieri Memorial Award as the AHL's outstanding coach in 2020-21 with the Hershey Bears and the John Brophy Coach of the Year Award in 2013-14 with the South Carolina Stingrays.
If Carbery can take home the Jack Adams he would become the first coach ever to win coach of the year awards in the NHL, AHL and ECHL levels.