{"id":564371,"date":"2026-05-01T17:51:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/564371\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T17:51:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:51:36","slug":"jack-adams-award-finalists-jon-cooper-dan-muse-lindy-ruff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/564371\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Adams Award finalists: Jon Cooper, Dan Muse, Lindy Ruff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:Field Level Media;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fieldlevelmedia.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"Field Level Media\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"312\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/bc126ea0-acd9-11ef-adff-76a94cf3e57a.png\"\/><\/a>Fri, May 1, 2026 at 4:51 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1100\" height=\"733\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/e003f53a77afc9f442d12bf2f62b221f.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Jan 24, 2026; Elmont, New York, USA; Buffalo Sabres head coach Lindy Ruff coaches against the New York Islanders during the first period at UBS Arena. Mandatory Credit: Brad Penner-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p> (Brad Penner-Imagn Images)<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay&#8217;s Jon Cooper, Pittsburgh&#8217;s Dan Muse and Buffalo&#8217;s Lindy Ruff are the three finalists for the 2026 Jack Adams Award, the league announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The award, which is presented annually to the top coach in the NHL as voted on by the National Broadcasters&#8217; Association, will be announced at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper, 58, guided the Lightning to a 50-26-6 record this season and a ninth consecutive playoff appearance.<\/p>\n<p>A two-time Stanley Cup champion, Cooper has been a finalist for this award on two occasions (2013-14, 2018-19) &#8212; however he has yet to win it.<\/p>\n<p>Muse, 43, succeeded in his first season as head coach of the Penguins, leading the club to a second-place finish in the Metropolitan Division. The Penguins posted a 41-25-16 record (98 points), which represented an 18-point increase from the previous season.<\/p>\n<p>Ruff, 66, helped the Sabres halt a 14-year playoff drought by guiding the club to a first-place finish in the Atlantic Division with a 50-23-9 record. He previously won the Jack Adams Award in 2005-06, during his first stint with the Sabres.<\/p>\n<p>Spencer Carbery of the Washington Capitals won the award last season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Field Level Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fri, May 1, 2026 at 4:51 PM UTC Jan 24, 2026; Elmont, New York, USA; Buffalo Sabres head&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5110],"tags":[5833,5,122,7943,2086,189,6422,2218,63465,3328,159,5190,5189,4,1469,1108,540,2171,109],"class_list":["post-564371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-islanders","tag-dan-muse","tag-hockey","tag-islanders","tag-jack-adams-award","tag-jon-cooper","tag-lightning","tag-lindy-ruff","tag-metropolitan-division","tag-national-broadcasters39-association","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-islanders","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkislanders","tag-nhl","tag-pittsburgh","tag-sabres","tag-tampa-bay","tag-the-penguins","tag-washington-capitals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116500593704518630","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}