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The Monday morning after former Ducks Freddie Andersen and Nicolas Deslauriers raised the Stanley Cup with the Carolina Panthers, one of their current prospects added a significant piece of hardware to his already formidable collection.<\/p>\n

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Forward Maxim Mass\u00e9 won the David Branch Player of the Year Award, which honors the top competitor in all of Canadian junior hockey.<\/p>\n

Mass\u00e9, 20, might need to invest in a bigger trophy case after already capturing the Jean Believeau Trophy as the top scorer in the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League and the Michel Bri\u00e8re Trophy as the QMJHL\u2019s MVP. Along with the Western and Ontario hockey leagues, the \u201cQ\u201d makes up the broader Canadian Hockey League system, which is considered the top junior circuit on earth.<\/p>\n

After winning the QMJHL title, the Gilles-Courteau Trophy, Mass\u00e9 and the Chicoutimi Saguen\u00e9ens qualified for the Memorial Cup, a nationwide junior championship that was won by the OHL\u2019s Kitchener Rangers.<\/p>\n

The 6-foot-3 Mass\u00e9 is only the second Chicoutimi player to garner CHL Player of the Year honors and the first in nearly a quarter-century since Pierre-Marc Bouchard did so in 2002. He notched 51 goals and 51 assists, one of just two 50-goal scorers and four 100-point producers in the CHL. He was the only 50\/50 club member in all of Canada this season before adding 24 more points in 20 playoff matches.<\/p>\n

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In his draft year, 2023-24, he won gold with Canada at both the Under-18 World Junior Championships and the Gretzky-Hlinka Cup, in addition to receiving the Mike Bossy Trophy as the QMJHL\u2019s best professional prospect.<\/p>\n

He was previously honored as the top rookie in both the QMJHL and the entire CHL in 2022-23. He became a third-round draft pick of the Ducks a year later, but his feat of winning both the CHL\u2019s Rookie of the Year and Player of the Year accolades put him in the company of No. 1 overall picks almost exclusively.<\/p>\n

The other players to accomplish both feats were Sidney Crosby, John Tavares, Alexis Lafreni\u00e8re, Gavin McKenna and Alex DeBrincat. DeBrincat was a second-rounder for the Chicago Blackhawks while Crosby, Tavares and Lafreni\u00e8re were all top selections in their respective drafts, as McKenna will be later this month.<\/p>\n

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Like McKenna, Mass\u00e9 will chart a course that takes him from the CHL to the NCAA, a path that has been open to prospects for only one season. Mass\u00e9 will take his talents to the University of Massachusetts this fall.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-based-on-facts-either-observed-and-verified-directly-by-the-reporter-or-reported-and-verified-from-knowledgeable-sources","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nDucks prospect Maxim Mass\u00e9 wins prestigious Canadian junior hockey award - Silicon Valley Moving Post<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=15341\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ducks prospect Maxim Mass\u00e9 wins prestigious Canadian junior hockey award - 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