By Aaron Portzline (The Athletic)
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Blue Jackets coach John Tortorella has been nominated five times for the Jack Adams Trophy, given to the NHL’s best coach. If he wins the award Wednesday night, he’d join Pat Burns as the only coach to win the trophy three times.
That might be the second line on Tortorella’s Hall of Fame plaque one day, right below “Stanley Cup winner” and just above “winningest U.S.-born coach in NHL history.”
The Blue Jackets qualified for the playoffs for a fourth straight season — they had never done it in consecutive seasons before he arrived in 2016 — and they were a tough out in the postseason, beating Toronto in the qualifying round and losing to Tampa Bay in the second round.
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