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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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