Masse's production when it counts turning heads heading into 2024 NHL Draft

The 2024 Upper Deck NHL Draft will be held June 28-29 at Circle in Las Vegas. The principal round will be June 28 (7 p.m. ET; ESPN, ESPN+, SN, TVAS) and Rounds 2-7 are June 29 (11:30 a.m. ET; ESPN+, NHLN, SN, SN1). NHL.com is counting down to the draft with top to bottom profiles on top possibilities, digital recordings and different highlights. Today, a profile on traditional Saying Masse of Chicoutimi in the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey Association. NHL.com's full draft inclusion can be viewed as here. Proverb Masse of Chicoutimi of the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey Association appears to have a talent for coming up enormous in the grip. The most paramount of his 13 game-dominating objectives in his two QMJHL seasons came in 2022-23 against Rimouski, the group he once pull for as a youth. "I experienced childhood in Rimouski and my granddad had season tickets, so he generally got me a ticket and I was there with him," Masse said. "I was truly youthful, so we needed to leave early, however I had loads of fun in those days watching the Maritime." On Jan. 29, 2023, Masse took a lead pass and skated in on a breakaway prior to keeping a shot through the legs of Rimouski goalie Gabriel Robert with 3:52 excess to drive Chicoutimi to a 3-2 triumph. "I think we as a whole play hockey to feel better in each second and clearly to dominate some matches," the 18-year-old forward said, "and I like to be on the ice when it's an undecided outcome or we're losing by an objective. I need to have an effect. That's what everyone needs, except I'll say I'm very great in those minutes." He was chosen No. 3 by Chicoutimi in the 2022 QMJHL draft. His dad, Luc Masse, was a previous defenseman who played one season in the QMJHL with Holy person Jean in 1989-90. "It's a fantasy to play in the 'Q,' without a doubt," Masse said. "My father let me know it wasn't a similar outlook and same game in the 'Q' as it is currently ... it was more physical and there was battling. Yet, father has assisted me with the psychological piece of the game rather than the abilities part. He's forever been there for me since I began playing hockey when I was 4 years of age."

Maase (6-foot-2, 190 pounds) has been a masterpiece during his two seasons with Chicoutimi. He was named Canadian Hockey Association the latest phenom last season after he had 62 focuses (29 objectives, 33 helps), 20 strategic maneuver focuses and six game-dominating objectives in 65 normal season matches. He drove Chicoutimi this season in objectives (36), focuses (75), show of dominance focuses (28) and game-dominating objectives (seven) in 67 normal season games and was third in the group with six places (three objectives, three aids) eight QMJHL season finisher games. "I'd say I can score an objective from a long way off with my shot or while going to the net, however I can make plays for my colleagues as well," Masse said. "I believe I can play well in my zone too, so I'm a two-way forward." Masse, victor of the Mike Bossy Prize as the QMJHL's top proficient possibility, is No. 30 on NHL Focal Exploring's last positioning of North American skaters qualified for the 2024 Upper Deck NHL Draft. "What we like is the ability to score; he's scored wherever he's played," Focal Exploring's Jean-Francois Damphousse said. "He'll have to add a solidarity to his lower body, which will help him truly. He's not a puck transporter, a carrier or line driver, yet I think at the powerful he can be a 6-foot-2 body on the wing who can complete around the net. Chicoutimi is a youthful group that was topping with flawless timing, and they'll be serious areas of strength for truly the following two or three years. "In the event that you draft a youngster like Masse, he will be in a decent circumstance for the following two years vieing for titles, scoring objectives. He has a major body, so there's part to like."

Masse, who probably will stay a wing at whatever point he arrives at the expert positions, said he appreciates watching Bison Sabers forward Alex Tuch. "He's a major fellow and can score objectives and plays well in his zone as well, so I feel that is an extraordinary tantamount," he said. "The contend and the psychological side of the game are significant as you create in light of the fact that everyone at the most elevated level has what it takes to be there. Yet, the one is harder intellectually that goes through ... the one that generally contends and needs to improve."