<p>The National Hockey League continued their wave of award announcements on Saturday, with the reveal that Washington Capitals head coach Spencer Carberry had been awarded the Jack Adams Trophy as the league&#8217;s top coach in 2024-25.</p>
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<p>Carberry&#8217;s crowning was the product of a vote conducted by members of the NHL Broadcasters&#8217; Association from across the league. The league also revealed the full results of the balloting. 13 different coaches received a first, second or third-place vote from the 103 broadcasters that submitted ballots.</p>
<p>Among those that received votes was second-year Calgary Flames head coach Ryan Huska, who received four third-place votes.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Final voting results for the 2024-25 Jack Adams Award: <a href="https://t.co/kkAFcFmjkj">pic.twitter.com/kkAFcFmjkj</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Chris Johnston (@reporterchris) <a href="https://twitter.com/reporterchris/status/1931368782741864602?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 7, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
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<p><a href="https://publish.flamesnation.ca/2023/06/12/calgary-flames-name-ryan-huska-as-their-new-head-coach/">The 49-year-old Huska became head coach of the Flames prior to the 2023-24 season</a>, and helped them navigate a chaotic season that featured 82 games of twists, turns, trade rumours and, ultimately, major departures – including Nikita Zadorov, Chris Tanev, Noah Hanifin and Elias Lindholm. (<em>Andrew Mangiapane and Jacob Markstrom followed in the off-season.</em>) In 2024-25, the Flames entered the season with a roster that was arguably worse on paper than their 2023-24 edition. However, with far less noise around the team – nobody seemed concerned that anybody was on the way out – they simply played hockey for 82 games and tried to find ways to win.</p>
<p>Huska did not have a ton of firepower on his roster, so he had his team play a structured, patient defensive style. Huska had an untested rookie goaltender in Dustin Wolf, and his coaching staff devised a way to ease him into regular NHL duty. And once it became apparently that Wolf was pretty damn good, Huska and his staff leaned heavily upon him at key moments – and utilized backup netminder Dan Vladar tactically to keep Wolf at his best.</p>
<p>When the 2024-25 season began, much of the hockey establishment had the Flames pencilled in for the draft lottery mix. It wasn&#8217;t a question of if the Flames would struggle, but <em>how much</em> they would struggle, and <em>how close</em> to the league&#8217;s basement they would be.</p>
<p>The Flames ended up missing the Stanley Cup playoffs by the regulation wins tiebreaker.</p>
<p><a href="https://publish.flamesnation.ca/2025/05/05/flames-netminder-dustin-wolf-named-finalist-for-calder-trophy-as-nhls-top-rookie/">Wolf, a Calder Trophy finalist</a>, definitely deserves a ton of credit for helping the Flames finish way higher in the standings than anyone anticipated. But don&#8217;t forget to give ample credit to Huska, as the NHL&#8217;s broadcasters have, for his big part in devising a game plan that got the Flames to within a whisker of a playoff berth.</p>
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The National Hockey League continued their wave of award announcements on Saturday, with the reveal that Washington Capitals head coach Spencer Carberry had been awarded the Jack Adams Trophy as the league's top coach in 2024-25.
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Carberry's crowning was the product of a vote conducted by members of the NHL Broadcasters' Association from across the league. The league also revealed the full results of the balloting. 13 different coaches received a first, second or third-place vote from the 103 broadcasters that submitted ballots.

Among those that received votes was second-year Calgary Flames head coach Ryan Huska, who received four third-place votes.

https://twitter.com/reporterchris/status/1931368782741864602

<a href="https://publish.flamesnation.ca/2023/06/12/calgary-flames-name-ryan-huska-as-their-new-head-coach/">The 49-year-old Huska became head coach of the Flames prior to the 2023-24 season</a>, and helped them navigate a chaotic season that featured 82 games of twists, turns, trade rumours and, ultimately, major departures – including Nikita Zadorov, Chris Tanev, Noah Hanifin and Elias Lindholm. (<em>Andrew Mangiapane and Jacob Markstrom followed in the off-season.</em>) In 2024-25, the Flames entered the season with a roster that was arguably worse on paper than their 2023-24 edition. However, with far less noise around the team – nobody seemed concerned that anybody was on the way out – they simply played hockey for 82 games and tried to find ways to win.

Huska did not have a ton of firepower on his roster, so he had his team play a structured, patient defensive style. Huska had an untested rookie goaltender in Dustin Wolf, and his coaching staff devised a way to ease him into regular NHL duty. And once it became apparently that Wolf was pretty damn good, Huska and his staff leaned heavily upon him at key moments – and utilized backup netminder Dan Vladar tactically to keep Wolf at his best.

When the 2024-25 season began, much of the hockey establishment had the Flames pencilled in for the draft lottery mix. It wasn't a question of if the Flames would struggle, but <em>how much</em> they would struggle, and <em>how close</em> to the league's basement they would be.

The Flames ended up missing the Stanley Cup playoffs by the regulation wins tiebreaker.

<a href="https://publish.flamesnation.ca/2025/05/05/flames-netminder-dustin-wolf-named-finalist-for-calder-trophy-as-nhls-top-rookie/">Wolf, a Calder Trophy finalist</a>, definitely deserves a ton of credit for helping the Flames finish way higher in the standings than anyone anticipated. But don't forget to give ample credit to Huska, as the NHL's broadcasters have, for his big part in devising a game plan that got the Flames to within a whisker of a playoff berth.

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