Carbery wins Jack Adams Award

Former ECHL player and coach Spencer Carbery is the 2024-25 recipient of the Jack Adams Award as “the NHL coach adjudged to have contributed the most to his team’s success,” as selected by the NHL Broadcasters’ Association.

Carbery, who received the John Brophy Award as ECHL Coach of the Year in 2013-14 and the Louis A.R. Pieri Memorial Award as American Hockey League Coach of the Year in 2020-21, is the first individual to win the Coach of the Year Award in all three leagues.

In his second season as head coach of the Washington Capitals, Carbery led the team to a 51-22-9 record for 111 points, finishing with the second-best record in the NHL as well as the top seed in the Eastern Conference for the first time since 2016-17.

Overall in two seasons, Carbery has led Washington to a 91-53-20 record and two appearances in the Stanley Cup Playoffs.

During his playing career, Carbery played three seasons in the ECHL from 2007-10 with Bakersfield, Stockton, Fresno and South Carolina, totaling 73 points (32g-41a) in 181 games and capturing a Kelly Cup title with the Stingrays in 2009.

Following his playing career, he entered the coaching ranks, serving as South Carolina’s assistant coach in 2010-11 before spending the next five seasons as the club’s head coach. Carbery’s teams won 40 or more games three times, captured a pair of division titles and advanced to the 2015 Kelly Cup Finals.

Carbery becomes the third former ECHL coach to win the Jack Adams Award, joining Bruce Boudreau and Bruce Cassidy.