Matthew Maggio of the Windsor Spitfires. Tim Cornett/OHL ImagesMatthew Maggio of the Windsor Spitfires. Tim Cornett/OHL Images
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Spitfires' Maggio is the OHL's top scorer

The Windsor Spitfires are going into the OHL playoffs with the league's top offensive player.

Forward Matthew Maggio is the Spits' second straight player to take home the league prize for offence, the Eddie Powers Memorial Trophy.

Maggio has also won the Jim Mahon Memorial Trophy as the OHL's highest-scoring right winger, becoming the first Windsor player to win that particular award.

The 20-year-old native of Tecumseh scored 111 points during the regular season, including 54 goals over 66 games. Only four of those goals were on the power play, making Maggio one of only four OHL players in the past decade to score at least 45 even-strength goals in a season.

Maggio was drafted in 2018 by the Ottawa 67s, in the fifth round of the OHL Priority Selection. He was traded to the Spitfires during the 2019-2020 season, which was cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic. The overage player is a prospect of the NHL's New York Islanders, having been selected in the fifth round of the 2022 Entry Draft. He completes his OHL career with 99 goals for 217 points over 212 games between Windsor and Ottawa.

Former teammate Wyatt Johnston won the Powers Trophy last season. Other Spitfires who have won are Bert Giesebrecht, Earl Reibel, and Taylor Hall.

The other OHL award winners are the 67s, winning the Hamilton Spectator Trophy for the league's best regular-season record. Ottawa's Max Donoso and Collin MacKenzie share the Dave Pickney Award for the lowest team goals-against average. Zach Bowen of the London Knights won the F.W. Dinty Moore Trophy for the lowest rookie goals-against average.

The Spitfires concluded the regular season Saturday night, winning the OHL West Division with 94 points, and a 44-18-4-2 record. As the top seed in the Western Conference, Windsor will host the eighth-seeded Kitchener Rangers in the first round. Game 1 will be Thursday night at the WFCU Centre.

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