Maple Leafs Head Coach Craig Berube Snubbed from Prestigious Award Win

Craig Berube has silenced all doubters this season but one NHL ranking sees him being snubbed out of contention as the League's top bench boss.

Hired this summer to take over for Sheldon Keefe, Craig Berube has brought in his style of no-nonsense, gritty, and hard-nosed hockey that found him success previously.

Toronto took a bit to buy in but the results so far have been fantastic. Sitting at 27-14-2 and first in the Atlantic, Toronto is only behind the Washington Capitals for top spot in the East, and have a genuine chance of getting past not only the first, but second round as well.

With all the success that Craig Berube and the Maple Leafs have found this season, he seems to be a shoe-in for Jack Adams contention as Coach of the Year.

Craig Berube Snubbed For No Logical Reason

But a new ranking released by a panel of NHL.com writers not only doesn't have Berube in the top spot; he hasn't even earned a vote.

Based on the voting system (5-4-3-2-1 in terms of value, where five equates to the top), Washington's Spencer Carbery was ranked first with 73 points, followed by Scott Arneil (Winnipeg), John Hynes (Minnesota), and surprisingly Sheldon Keefe (New Jersey).

Only two other coaches in Jim Hiller and Bruce Cassidy received more than 10 points from the panel and it leads some to question what their criteria exactly was for the choices.

While Carbery is no doubt deserving of his ranking, as Washington is the best team in the East and has turned things around from last season to make the Capitals a force. Arneil deserves more credit for Winnipeg's success, and Hynes is doing great in Minnesota.

But Keefe appearing before Berube is puzzling.

New Jersey not only has a worse record than the Maple Leafs, but have more OT losses and while they are a bit better in terms of goals for and against, how much of that is Keefe as opposed to someone like Stefan Noesen or Jack Hughes or Jacob Markstrom.

It's bizarre that Berube couldn't garner enough votes to hit double digits, and even more shocking is that Vegas and LA's coach are behind Keefe.

Toronto has been leaps and bounds better defensively, and defense wins championships.

Craig Berube may be snubbed for the Jack Adams as we stand over halfway into the season, but if he's able to replicate his success from 2019; there's no doubt it won't be the only hardware he gets at season's end.

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