So what if the Columbus Blue Jackets still have just over half of the season left? John Tortorella should be, and will be, named the winner of the Jack Adams award once this season concludes.
In all of the pieces that came out nationally throughout the Jackets 16-game winning streak, there was one common thread - it's amazing and completely unseen and unexpected that Tortorella has gotten the Blue Jackets where they are.
No one predicted any sort of run at the playoffs at the beginning of the year for Columbus and, with Team USA's miserable performance at the World Cup of Hockey, Torts was still getting beat up on pretty regularly.