Brady Oliveira stole the show at the CFL awards banquet.

The Winnipeg Blue Bombers running back captured the George Reed Most Outstanding Player honour and was named top Canadian for a second straight year. Oliveira led the West Division to four of the seven top individual awards Thursday night at the Vancouver Convention Centre.

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Oliveira and the Bombers face the Toronto Argonauts in the Grey Cup on Sunday at B.C. Place Stadium. Winnipeg is in the game for a fifth straight year and chasing a third title.

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Voting was conducted by the Football Reporters of Canada and nine CFL head coaches. Fifty-six votes were completed.

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Oliveira, 27, earned a second straight CFL rushing title with 1,353 yards. A finalist last year, the five-foot-11, 222-pound Winnipeg native also topped the league in yards from scrimmage (1,829) for a second consecutive year to garner 31 votes.

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Hamilton香蕉视频直播檚 Bo Levi Mitchell was the finalist. A two-time award winner, Mitchell led the CFL in passing (career-best 5,451 yards) and TDs (32).

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Oliveira received 55 votes as top Canadian.

Montreal defensive lineman Isaac Adeyemi-Berglund was the finalist. The six-foot-two, 248-pound Dartmouth, N.S., native had a CFL-best nine tackles for a loss and team-high seven sacks while registering a career-best 36 tackles.

The five-foot-11, 200-pound Milligan received 35 votes after leading the CFL in interceptions and defensive takeaways (both eight) and registering 111 defensive plays (fifth overall). He was also third in special-teams tackles (20) and helped Saskatchewan香蕉视频直播檚 defence rank first in forced turnovers (49), forced fumbles (17) and fumble recoveries (14) and second in interceptions (24).

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Hunter, of North Bay, Ont., received 40 votes in becoming the second Argo to claim the honour after Dejon Allen won it last year. The six-foot-three, 315-pound Hunter played guard and tackle in 17 starts as Toronto finished second overall in rushing (121.3 yards per game) and third in offensive scoring (26.2 points) and net offence (368.7 yards).

This marks the first time Toronto players have won this award in consecutive years since Mike Kiselak did so in 1996-97.

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Saskatchewan香蕉视频直播檚 Logan Ferland was the finalist. Ferland, of Melfort, Sask., started all 18 regular-season games, playing guard, tackle and centre.

Maas received 30 votes after guiding Montreal (league-best 12-5-1 record) atop the East Division for the first time since 2012 after leading the franchise to a Grey Cup title last year, his first as head coach. The Als last recorded 12 regular-season wins in 2010.

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Corey Mace, who led Saskatchewan (9-8-1) to second in the West Division in his first season as head coach, was the finalist.

The five-foot-nine, 157-pound Grant is the second Toronto special-teams winner as Javon Leake earned it last year. Grant led the CFL in punt-returns yards (career-high 989), average (14.8 yards) and TDs (three) and total return touchdowns (four) while setting career highs in punt returns (67), kickoff returns (41) and kickoff return yards (1,000).

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The five-foot-11, 242-pound Anderson finished tied with teammate Nyles Morgan for most defensive tackles (111) and second in both total tackles (116) and defensive plays (130) in 18 regular-season games.

Hamilton receiver Shemar Bridges was the finalist. He had a team-high 83 catches (club record for first-year players) with 933 yards and four touchdowns in 15 games before suffering a season-ending leg injury.