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"Are they getting to their game faster than Tampa is getting to theirs? “That’s what they did to beat us. We were never truly at our game for Bruins’ Bruce Cassidy wins NHL Coach of the Year honors long stretches of time. When you get two really good teams and there’s not a lot to pick from, that’s usually the difference.” By Kevin Paul Dupont Globe Staff Cassidy added, as he often does, that he also was watching the Lightning-Islanders series because he is simply a fan of the NHL. Updated September 9, 2020 "I’m not going to lie, I like watching hockey,'' he said. “Two good teams . I’m not invested in either side, so the refereeing doesn’t affect me . I don’t care about that part of it, just want to watch the game and A, be More than a week after his club was eliminated from the Stanley Cup entertained and B, steal some ideas from either side . and then watch playoffs, Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy on Wednesday was named the the coaches a little bit.” Jack Adams Award winner as the NHL’s Coach of the Year for 2019-20. Cassidy, 55, won the award 17 years after being dismissed as the Capitals' coach early in the 2003-04 season as one of the youngest Boston Globe LOADED: 09.10.2020 coaches in the National Hockey League. “I’m 17 years older, you should learn,” said Cassidy, asked how he would counsel the younger version of himself some two decades later. “No matter what career, or any walk of life, you should be better at what you do, if you use your eyes and ears. Obviously, a better balance with my family life, allowed me to park hockey. Some days I probably overanalyzed it when I was younger. I tried to do too much sometimes instead of letting the job sort of organically flow and stick to your principles and ideas and what you believe in.” Cassidy, promoted to bench boss in Boston in February 2017, became the fourth Boston coach to win the Adams, following in the footsteps of Don Cherry (1976), Pat Burns (1998), and Claude Julien (2009), the latter of whom he succeeded abruptly in 2017 and rallied the then- moribund Bruins to a playoff berth. Cassidy, who grew up in Ottawa a fan of the Bruins and Bobby Orr, credited the likes of his junior coach, Brian Killrea, and ex-Blackhawks coach Darryl Sutter, his first NHL coach, for helping shape his coaching methods and philosophy.