To mark the first quarter of the 2025-26 regular season, NHL.com is running its second installment of the Trophy Tracker series this week. Today, we look at the race for the Jack Adams Award , given annually to the top coach in the NHL as selected in a vote by the NHL Broadcasters' Association.

Joel Quenneville has mastered the art of winning. He's teaching the Anaheim Ducks how to do it.

For seven seasons, the Ducks have finished no higher than sixth in their division. Even at the first quarter of 2025-26 and five months until the Stanley Cup Playoffs, there are feelings tangible and intangible about a franchise absent from the postseason since getting swept out of the 2018 Western Conference First Round by the San Jose Sharks.

The Ducks are 14-7-1 with 29 points, the most they've ha

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