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Recently retired Winnipeg Jets head coach Rick Bowness finished third in Jack Adams Award voting

As Maury Povich famously would say “the results are in” and for the recently retired bench boss in Winnipeg it was a third place finishing for Rick Bowness in the voting for the Jack Adams Award which goes to the “top coach in the NHL as voted on by the National Broadcasters’ Association”.

This was the first time that Bowness had been nominated as he led his team to the second best record they’ve had since relocating to Winnipeg back in 2011. They finished in 2nd place in the entre Western Conference and they won the William M. Jennings Trophy only allowing 199 goals against during the regular season.

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Bowness received 75 points broken up as five 1st place votes, 11 second place votes and 17 third place votes. The winner was Rick Tocchet of the Canucks who received 483 points (82-23-4) with the Preds Andrew Brunette finishing second with 145 points (8-28-21).

David Minuk

Working hard on a daily basis to provide the latest Winnipeg Jets and Manitoba Moose news for our readers and listeners. I also appear on the Illegal Curve Hockey Show every Saturday on our YouTube channel as well as the Illegal Curve Post-Game Show after every single Jets game. And I occasionally jump in the play-by-play booth at Canada Life to provide colour analysis during Manitoba Moose games.

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