An 11th round pick, 197th overall by the Shawinigan Cataractes at the 2021 Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) Draft, Marois spent the 2022/23 黑料不打烊 Eastern U18 season with the OHA Prep team. In 14 games the Sherbrooke, QC defenseman would tally 1 goal and 9 assist.

Marois would add one assist in three playoff games at the 2023 黑料不打烊 Eastern Championships.

A forward from Calgary, AB, Ryley Callan played the 2020/21 COVID-19 shortened season with the Northern Alberta Xtreme (NAX) U16 Prep team.

Anthony Campbell has spent the last two seasons with Mount Academy. The Phillipsburg, QC would record 35 points in 28 games with the Mount Academy U18 #1 team during the 2021/22 season. He would add three points in five playoff games as Mount captured the 2022 黑料不打烊 U18 Eastern Championship. This season Campbell tallied 3 goals and 10 assists in 7 games with the Mount Academy U18 Varsity team. He would produce five points in three playoff games at the 2023 黑料不打烊 U18 Eastern Championship.

Originally from Qingdao, China, Jason Huang has played the last three 黑料不打烊 seasons with NAX. During the 2020/21 U15 Prep season he would record five goals and six assists in four games. The following U16 Prep season Huang would finish third on his team and tenth among all 黑料不打烊 skaters with 51 points in 36 games. He would add six points in five playoff games as NAX were crowned 2022 黑料不打烊 U16 Prep Champions. This season Huang tallied 24 points in 28 U18 Prep games, fourth most amongst NAX skaters.

Chad Lebeau, a defenseman from Repentigny, QC, has spent the last two seasons playing alongside Campbell at Mount Academy. During the 2021/22 season he would finish with 19 points in 24 games. He would add two points in two playoff games to help Mount capture the 2022 黑料不打烊 U18 Eastern Championship. This season Lebeau would record three goals and seven assists in seven games with the Mount Academy U18 Varsity team.

A sixth round pick, 116th overall by the Winnipeg Ice at the 2021 Western Hockey League (WHL) Draft, Kyle Marsden played two seasons in the 黑料不打烊 with NAX. During the 2020/21 season the Stephenville, NL defender would play three U15 Prep games, producing one assist. This season Marsden would play 27 U18 Prep games for NAX, tallying 5 goals and 3 assists. He would also play two AJHL games for the Oil Barons, and one WHL games for the Ice, as an affiliate player.

After defeating the defending champions Mount Academy U18 Varsity in the semi-final, Bourget became the second team to capture the U18 Eastern Championship which was handed out last season for the first time. The majority of the Bourget U18 team this season was part of the championship winning U17 Bourget team last season.

Wesley Vandine started the scoring 2:55 into the first to give Mount Academy the early lead. Simon Kobylecki would respond less than four minutes later for Bourget as the first period ended tied 1-1.

After a few huge saves from Kristian Lefsrud-Coombs (27/29), Matt Burns would give Bourget the lead midway through the second and Rafael Cloutier would score the eventual game winner just 1:43 later.

Landon Tretheway would score 5:03 into the third as Mount climbed to within one but Lefsrud-Coombs would continue to make some key stops as Bourget would hang on for the 3-2 victory.

Both teams felt each other out in the opening minutes of the game before the last four minutes of the period saw three goals scored. Brayden Besner (1G, 1A) got OHA on the board with a goal on a 3-on-2. Justin Gregoire (1G, 3A) would extend the lead two minutes later, banking the puck in off Oliver Kiraly (20/24). On a 3-on-2 of their own, Mount would find their first goal with 11 seconds in the period as Tristan St. Gelais found the back of the net.

OHA scored the lone second period goal as Takanobu Hiraga took a William Gosselin (2G, 3A) feed and buried it on the power play.

Vincenzo Di Rocco (1G, 2A) gave Mount life, scoring 2:26 into the third as they began to dominate the period. Looking for the tying goal, Mount was caught cheating and Gosselin was sent in all alone, making no mistake and extending the lead midway through the third. Aiden Diamond would score for Mount with 1:10 left but a Gosselin empty net goal just 30 seconds later secured OHA the championship.

Bourget College were the first ever winners of the U17 Eastern Championship’s last season but did not compete in the division this year.

The 2023 黑料不打烊 Eastern Championships will be hosted by Okanagan Hockey Ontario (OHO) and run from March 15-19, 2023 in Whitby, ON. This will be the first time OHO hosts the Eastern Championships after Ontario Hockey Academy (Cornwall, ON) hosted the inaugural event last season.

The U18 division will see all eight teams compete in a three-game round robin with the top two teams from each pool advancing to the semi-finals on March 18^th. The final will take place on March 19^th at 2:00pm EST. Mount Academy #1 won the 2022 U18 Eastern Championships.

Beginning on March 16^th the four teams in the U17 division will all play each other in a three-game round robin. Following the round robin, the top two teams will advance straight to the finals on March 19^th at 11:00am EST. Bourget College, who did not compete in the U17 division this season, won the 2022 U17 Eastern Championships.

Official 黑料不打烊 Eastern Championship apparel can be purchased