There have been a number of sensational coaching jobs in the NHL this year.
Paul MacLean has kept a battered and bruised Ottawa Senators team afloat all year. Michel Therrien led the Montreal Canadiens from 15th and dead last in the Eastern Conference to the upper reaches of the conference.
Joel Quenneville had the Chicago Blackhawks playing sharp hockey all season, and they became the President's Trophy winner. Bruce Boudreau did a special job with the Anaheim Ducks, taking a bottom-feeder and turning it into the second-place team in the Western Conference.
And what about Randy Carlyle? He led the Toronto Maple Leafs to their first playoff appearance since 2003-04.
One of those five could easily win the Jack Adams Award as the NHL's coach of the year.
However, the best coach in the NHL is Mike Babcock of the Detroit Red Wings. He may not be in consideration for coach of the year honors in 2013, but he lives up to the high praise that former Houston Oilers coach Bum Phillips once had for the Miami Dolphins' legendary head coach Don Shula (per The New York Times).
"Don Shula can take his'n and ...
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