Bylsma wins Jack Adams Award

Wednesday, 06.22.2011 / 7:47 PM

By John Kreiser - NHL.com Columnist / NHL Awards Blog presented by GEICO

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Bylsma wins Jack Adams Award
He didn't lead his team to the Stanley Cup as he did two years earlier, but Pittsburgh's Dan Bylsma won the Jack Adams Award as the NHL's top coach.

The Penguins came in fourth in the East with 106 points, barely failing to overtake Philadelphia for the Atlantic Division title, despite not having Jordan Staal for most of the first half of the season and playing without Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin for the second half.

Bylsma beat out Vancouver's Alain Vigneault, who led the Canucks to the Presidents' Trophy, and Nashville's Barry Trotz