#Jack Adams Award

The Boston Bruins are the best team in hockey. On a historic pace through 40 games, the Bruins hold an NHL-best record of 32-4-4 and leads the league in points (68), goals against average (2.13) and save percentage (.928). Boston is also second in goals per game (3.85) and third in power play percentage (28.2%). If they hold this pace, the Bruins…

The Place: TD Garden, Boston, Massachusetts Where to Watch: ROOT Sports Northwest or ESPN+ for out-of-market fans Where to Listen: KJR 93.3 As good as the vibes have been in Seattle, they've been even better in Boston. The Bruins have been far and away the NHL's best team this season under new coach Jim Montgomery, who is the heavy favorite to win…

Ottawa Senators fans have wanted off the rollercoaster of inconsistency for over a decade. Perhaps the only consistency surrounding the team is their inconsistency. That's true for this season with a rotation of promising and disappointing streaks. It's also true after years of missing the playoffs and first-round appearances between the 2007…

The 2022-23 NHL season begins in earnest Tuesday night with the New York Rangers hosting the Tampa Bay Lightning and the Los Angeles Kings hosting the Vegas Golden Knights. Most of the league starts up Wednesday night, including the defending champion Colorado Avalanche. The Eastern Conference, in particular, is absolutely loaded. Four of the teams…

During last week's Chiclets Game Notes, we dove into who we would give the NHL awards to if the season ended today. Here is the link to check it out now so this blog will make sense. Plus, Army looks terrific on it. Here are the $EBR picks: Norris Trophy: Josh Morrissey (Winnipeg Jets) - A little-known fact about this award is that a new player has…

The Boston Bruins continue to defy all the odds with a 20-3 record and a 14-0 game unbeaten streak on home ice. This team, which effectively did nothing during the offseason to improve, was supposed to be a marginal playoff team at best; however, after two months of hockey, they are the number one contenders to capture the Presidents' Trophy. Last…

Let's imagine a hypothetical hockey player. Say they're a left winger for some team in the Central Division, and are currently in their third year in the NHL. To drive home the idea that this player is not real and is completely made up, we'll give him a nonsensical name: Rason Jobertson. Jobertson had an excellent rookie year, scoring only a few…

There is always some fun surrounding the NHL awards. There are some favorites and some surprises every year. This is my list of 2021-22 NHL season award predictions. The President's Trophy is a tight race between the Colorado Avalanche and the Florida Panthers. With an extra game at hand, I think Florida takes home the President's Trophy, securing…

The NHL regular season is underway and let's face it, it's never too early to talk about awards. With all 32 teams getting underway, the clubs are beginning their journey towards making the playoffs and pushing for the Stanley Cup. But there are also individual awards that are up for grabs as well. Honors like the Norris, Vezina and Hart are always…

Toronto Maple Leafs 118 Florida Panthers 112 Tampa Bay Lightning 104 Boston Bruins 94 Ottawa Senators 88 Detroit Red Wings Buffalo Sabres 78 Montreal Canadiens 68 The Maple Leafs remain built for success in the regular season but are set up for failure in the playoffs. The Panthers have added toughness and scoring with Matthew Tkachuk; now, they…

Hello, again, Canadian Sports Bettors! Here at gambling.com, we wish all our Canadian friends a This is the time of unbridled optimism for all hockey teams from Canada. After all, it has been 1993 since a team from the "Great White North" won the Stanley Cup. In this part of our NHL preview, we briefly examine the Montreal Canadiens, Vancouver…

For our Canadian Sports Bettors, on behalf of Gambling.com. Happy Thanksgiving! It's a long weekend, a time for turkey and all the trimmings. Naturally, this is the week that the starts. As for Ontario Sports Betting, this is again the time of perpetual hope for the Toronto Maple Leafs and even the Ottawa Senators. The 2022-23 NHL season expects to…

The top coach in the National Hockey League is an award thatcan go to many coaches in any given year, so it often ends up going to thecoach with the best story. Here are our odds, picks, and predictions for the 2023 NHL Jack Adams Award. The Jack Adams Award is as narrative-driven as any award inthe sport. It is so hard to know the details…

The Stars made five cuts to their preseason roster on Thursday afternoon, drawing their Opening Night roster into further focus following the signing of Jason Robertson on Wednesday night. Dallas loaned forwards Oskar Bäck, Mavrik Bourque, Fredrik Karlström and Fredrik Olofsson, plus defenseman Ryan Shea to AHL affiliate Texas on Thursday, leaving…

With a new head coach behind the bench, is the 2022-23 NHL Season the year the Detroit Red Wings finally make a playoff push once again? According to the oddsmakers, don't count on it. While it was a positive offseason for the Wings, Detroit still is on the outside looking in for most NHL odds markets. Can sports bettors in Michigan find any value…

Fortune favors the bold, or so the saying goes. Even conservatively handicapping a sport as unpredictable as hockey - where seemingly every season, there are two or three jaw-dropping surprises in the standings based on the bounces of a frozen vulcanized rubber disk - can leave you looking foolish. We're throwing conservative selections out the…

The Golden Knights came into the 2021-22 season as one of the favorites to win the Stanley Cup. They finished the pandemic-shortened 2021 season tied for the league lead in points with the Colorado Avalanche, edged out those same Avs in the second round of the playoffs, and then lost to the Cinderella Montreal Canadiens in the semi-final. In…

Oddsmakers believe first-year Detroit Red Wings coach Derek Lalonde has a better chance this season of winning the Jack Adams Award than two-time Stanley Cup winning coach Jon Cooper. Lalonde is at 12-1 to be named NHL coach of the year in 2022-23. Those are the sixth-best odds in the field. Several veteran coaches have higher odds. Cooper's odds…

To see all the Daily Faceoff 2022-23 NHL team previews, In a Metropolitan Division with plenty of uncertainty, the one team in which many prognosticators seemed to be confident was the New York Islanders. Fresh off back to back final-four losses to the Tampa Bay Lightning, the Isles seemed like a safe bet for another season of tidy defense and…