Dan Muse on Friday was named a finalist for the Jack Adams Award as coach of the year, as voted on by the National Broadcasters' Association.
Buffalo’s Lindy Ruff and Tampa Bay’s Jon Cooper were the other three nominees for the award. The winner will be announced at a later date yet to be announced by the NHL.
Muse, in typical fashion, didn't want to take too much credit for his nomination when asked about it on Friday.
"I think when you get recognition for something like that, it's a credit to the players No. 1, they're the ones that are out on the ice playing the game," Muse said. "I don't think any coach ever gets recognition when the team doesn't play well on the ice. These guys did a great job throughout the course of the year, continuing to take steps. And so I think it's recognition to the organization, starting with the players who are on the ice playing the game. I think it's also the coaching staff as a whole. There's so much that goes into it, so much behind the scenes. You know, my name's on it, but I think this is more of an organizational thing than anything else. Players, the entire staff, everybody, even the people just behind the scenes. They make the environment here what it is. I think it's a credit to them."
Those players, though, don't seem to agree that it's so much a credit to them. They saw every day what kind of an impact Muse had on this team.
"Very well-deserved," Erik Karlsson said. "Obviously, easy for me to speak about, him and the impact he's had on this group. The results throughout the 82-game season shows that. I think he had a big, big part of that, and a big reason why we all succeeded, both as individuals and as a team. Very well-deserved. It's not something that I can say that I'm surprised about, that he's nominated for that."
Bryan Rust praised the work-ethic of Muse and his staff in their first year.
"I think he's always at the rink," Rust said. "But he also does an extremely good job of communicating with all the players on a daily basis, not just about hockey stuff, but about personal stuff, and really taking an interest in everybody's lives. I think that speaks volumes."
Kris Letang is known as a player who is always working at the rink, and he said that Muse is typically there later than even he is.
"If he gets his name (as a finalist), it's because he did a pretty good job," Letang said. "I think the first thing that strikes you when you meet him is the passion that he has for the game. It's crazy, the amount of work he puts in. And one other thing is communication with the players. I never seen something like that. He really sits down with everybody, and he asks input and he tells you what he sees. It's been fun working with him."
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Muse's Jack Adams nomination 'well-deserved'
Dan Muse on Friday was named a finalist for the Jack Adams Award as coach of the year, as voted on by the National Broadcasters' Association.
Buffalo’s Lindy Ruff and Tampa Bay’s Jon Cooper were the other three nominees for the award. The winner will be announced at a later date yet to be announced by the NHL.
Muse, in typical fashion, didn't want to take too much credit for his nomination when asked about it on Friday.
"I think when you get recognition for something like that, it's a credit to the players No. 1, they're the ones that are out on the ice playing the game," Muse said. "I don't think any coach ever gets recognition when the team doesn't play well on the ice. These guys did a great job throughout the course of the year, continuing to take steps. And so I think it's recognition to the organization, starting with the players who are on the ice playing the game. I think it's also the coaching staff as a whole. There's so much that goes into it, so much behind the scenes. You know, my name's on it, but I think this is more of an organizational thing than anything else. Players, the entire staff, everybody, even the people just behind the scenes. They make the environment here what it is. I think it's a credit to them."
Those players, though, don't seem to agree that it's so much a credit to them. They saw every day what kind of an impact Muse had on this team.
"Very well-deserved," Erik Karlsson said. "Obviously, easy for me to speak about, him and the impact he's had on this group. The results throughout the 82-game season shows that. I think he had a big, big part of that, and a big reason why we all succeeded, both as individuals and as a team. Very well-deserved. It's not something that I can say that I'm surprised about, that he's nominated for that."
Bryan Rust praised the work-ethic of Muse and his staff in their first year.
"I think he's always at the rink," Rust said. "But he also does an extremely good job of communicating with all the players on a daily basis, not just about hockey stuff, but about personal stuff, and really taking an interest in everybody's lives. I think that speaks volumes."
Kris Letang is known as a player who is always working at the rink, and he said that Muse is typically there later than even he is.
"If he gets his name (as a finalist), it's because he did a pretty good job," Letang said. "I think the first thing that strikes you when you meet him is the passion that he has for the game. It's crazy, the amount of work he puts in. And one other thing is communication with the players. I never seen something like that. He really sits down with everybody, and he asks input and he tells you what he sees. It's been fun working with him."
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