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champion Edmonton Oilers.
“After they won the
seventh game (against
Nashville), you would
have thought they won the
Stanley Cup,” Sasson said.
“The streets in Vancouver
were flooded with people.”
Sasson went to the
Abbotsford Canucks after
being a standout in junior
hockey for three years and
for the Western Michigan
University hockey team for
two years.
He scored 15 goals and
had 27 assists in 38 games
in his sophomore season at
Western Michigan, tying for
15th in the nation in points
(42), after scoring nine goals
and dishing out 13 assists in
37 games as a freshman and
being named the Broncos’
Rookie of the Year.
He also was a standout
in the classroom at
Western Michigan. He
was named twice to the
National Collegiate Hockey
Conference Academic All-
Conference Team.
Sasson celebrated his bar
mitzvah at Temple Beth El
in Bloomfield Hills.
The 2018 Birmingham
Seaholm High School
graduate is the son of Alan
and Ellen Sasson.
He has an older brother
Joe, 25, a former Bloomfield
Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood
High School hockey player
who’s now a computer
software engineer.
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Max Sasson’s
summer has included
workouts at Phyx
Performance in Troy.
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