John Tortorella Wins 2017 Jack Adams Trophy for Coach of the Year

Columbus Blue Jackets boss John Tortorella won the NHL's Jack Adams Award as the league's premier coach on Wednesday evening at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

Tortorella bested the Edmonton Oilers' Todd McLellan and Toronto Maple Leafs' Mike Babcock for the coveted honor. He has now captured the Jack Adams Award twice after first doing so after the 2003-04 season. 

Tortorella joined the Blue Jackets seven games into the 2015-16 campaign after they fired Todd Richards, but the 2016-17 season was his first full year on the job—and he didn't disappoint. 

Over the course of the franchise's most successful season to date, Tortorella led the Blue Jackets to a franchise-best 50 wins and 108 points en route to a third-place finish in the Metropolitan Division. 

Tortorella also led the Blue Jackets on a 16-game winning streak that fell one victory shy of tying the Pittsburgh Penguins' mark set during the 1992-93 season. 

"Our guys have come a long way," Tortorella said in January, per NHL.com's Jon Lane. "No matter what our record is, no matter what happens with the winning and losing, I know our guys have improved on being pros and it's good to see. Because if the organization takes more steps in the right direction, that room has to be theirs, and they're beginning to take that over."

But for all of their regular-season success, the Blue Jackets were tripped up in the playoffs when they fell to the Pittsburgh Penguins in a five-game first-round series. 

Looking ahead, Tortorella and the Blue Jackets will attempt to make that loss a thing of the past and chart a course to extend their postseason stay next year.