Maxim Massé named Canadian Hockey League Player of the Year
Massé led the CHL with 102 points and 51 goals, becoming only the sixth player to win both rookie and player of the year honors.
- On Monday, the Canadian Hockey League named Forward Maxim Massé the David Branch Player of the Year, honoring the 20-year-old Chicoutimi Saguenéens winger for his 102-point season.
- Massé notched 51 goals and 51 assists this season, making him the only 50/50 club member in Canada and helping Chicoutimi win its first title in more than three decades.
- The 6-foot-3 winger is just the sixth player in CHL history to capture both rookie and player of the year honors, joining Sidney Crosby, John Tavares, and Alex DeBrincat.
- Other award recipients included Everett Silvertips coach Steve Hamilton, who won the Brian Kilrea Coach of the Year Award, and Moncton Wildcats defenceman Tommy Bleyl, named CHL Rookie of the Year.
- Like top draft prospect Gavin McKenna, Massé will chart a path from the Canadian junior circuit to the NCAA, continuing his career at the University of Massachusetts this fall.
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Ducks prospect Maxim Massé wins prestigious Canadian junior hockey award
The forward, who had 51 goals and 51 assists this season before adding 24 more points in 20 playoff games, has won the David Branch Player of the Year Award, which honors the top competitor in all of Canadian junior hockey.
Attacker of the Sagueneans Maxim Massé is the player of the year in the LCH. He becomes the 6th player to win this prize after being the rookie of the year.
Maxim Massé named Canadian Hockey League Player of the Year – 105.9 The Region
TORONTO — Maxim Massé was announced as the Canadian Hockey League’s David Branch Player of the Year at Monday’s awards. The 20-year-old winger for the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League’s Chicoutimi Saguenéens topped the circuit with 102 points (51 goals, 51 assists) in 63 games, helping his team win its first title in more than three decades. Massé, a third-round pick of the Anaheim Ducks in the 2024 NHL draft, is just the sixth player in CH…
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