There has been chatter amongst Blues fans during the second half of the season about Craig Berube and the Jack Adams. Is taking over from the previous head coach a detriment? No, ask Ken Hitchcock, who won it for the Blues in 2012. Is taking until the second half of the season to start playing great guns a problem? Not particularly, because it takes a bit to build trust between a team and a coach.
What it takes to be nominated for the Jack Adams is usually either an unreal coaching experience with a rag-tag team of misfits or jerking a knot in a previously underachieving team’s ass - and I think we all know where Berube falls on that spectrum.