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Max McNab Trophy

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ16885373 ↗
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The Max McNab Trophy was awarded annually to the Central Hockey League (CHL) player selected as the most valuable player in the Adams Cup playoffs.

Named in honour of the former CHL president Max McNab commencing with 1976–77 CHL season.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1976—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1976. For this dossier, McNab, Trophy and Open-knowledge is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Max McNab Trophy” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.