The Jack Adams is one of the many awards handed out in the offseason down in Las Vegas Nevada. Its true meaning has it go to the coach that contributed the most to their team’s success. However, there’s a deeper meaning that goes as the following: your team was expected to be bad, and it’s not. Both meanings apply to several teams this season, including the Montreal Canadiens and Claude Julien.
Coming off a poor year where everything went wrong, the overwhelming consensus was that the Habs would run into the same hardships for the 2018/19 campaign.