Calgary Stampeders' head coach John Hufnagel talks to media after winning the CFL Coach of the Year award at a banquet in Winnipeg, Wednesday, January 21, 2015.Trevor Hagan/The Canadian Press
The CFL's best regular-season record and a Grey Cup championship have earned John Hufnagel his second Annis Stukus award.
Hufnagel was named the CFL's coach of the year Wednesday in voting conducted by the Football Reporters of Canada.
Tom Higgins of the Montreal Alouettes and Chris Jones of the Edmonton Eskimos were the other finalists.
Hufnagel, 63, guided Calgary to a league-best 15-3 record and the Stampeders capped their season with a 20-16 Grey Cup victory over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats at B.C. Place Stadium.
It marks the second time that Hufnagel has secured the coach of the year honour, doing so in '08 when he led Calgary to a CFL title in his first season as its head coach and general manager.
Higgins, the former CFL director of officiating and a two-time coach of the year winner, led Montreal to a 9-9 record and second spot in the East Division in his first season with the club, an impressive feat considering the Alouettes opened the season 1-7.
Edmonton posted a 12-6 record — second-best in the CFL — under Jones, its first-year head coach, after registering a 4-14 mark in 2013. But the Eskimos couldn't solve the Stampeders, losing all three regular-season games and the West Division final to their provincial rivals.