The Vancouver Canucks waited on the Columbus Blue Jackets to surrender their compensatory draft pick for hiring former Canucks head coach John Tortorella. After a disastrous season in Vancouver, Tortorella’s departure and the news of a compensation for his departure sounded like heaven to many Canucks fans.
Now, the pick has turned into none other than forward Jonah Gadjovich. But not before Tortorella was announced the winner of the Jack Adams Trophy for being nominated the best head coach in the NHL last season.
After what the Canucks went through in Willie Desjardins’s last season as Vancouver’s head coach, the city wouldn’t mind having a Jack Adams winner, to be honest.