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Jack Adams Award STOLEN from Lindy Ruff to give Jon Cooper his participation trophy
It is INCREDIBLE, but somehow Jon Cooper is your 2026 Jack Adams Award winner over Lindy Ruff and all the other top coach candidates and there is no intelligent argument for it. There's no doubt in anyone's mind, and voters aren't even hiding from it, that Cooper simply won because he had never won the award before. Lindy gets the award stolen away because of a pre-meditated vote by at least 36 voters from the Broadcasters Association. Call it a participation trophy, call it a pity award, call it whatever you want, but Cooper wins the award despite a losing record to the Sabres, not winning…
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