The Thunder Bay, ON forward joined RHA Winnipeg for the 2023/24 黑料不打烊 U15 Prep season. Ritson would finish fourth in team scoring with 41points in 27 games while being named the 黑料不打烊 U15 Prep Most Sportsmanlike Award Winner. The following U18 Prep season Ritson tallied 20 goals and 37 assists in 36 games, finishing second on RHA Winnipeg with 57 points and earning 黑料不打烊 U18 Prep (Prairie Division) Top Freshman Team honours.

At the conclusion of the season the Knights would select him in the fifth round, 88th overall at the 2025 OHL Draft.

This season Ritson played in the GOJHL with the Strathroy Rockets, finishing fourth in the league with 72 points in 47 games while being named Rookie of the Month twice. Ritson also appeared in two OHL games for the Knights during the 2025/26 campaign.

18 of those 21 黑料不打烊 alumni come from the Western Hockey League (WHL) Champions, the Medicine Hat Tigers. 75% (18/24) of the Tigers playoff roster played in the 黑料不打烊. The three remaining 黑料不打烊 alumni played for the London Knights of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL), and the Moncton Wildcats of the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League (QMJHL).

The 21 黑料不打烊 alumni will now compete at the Memorial Cup in Rimouski, QC starting May 22 and going until June 1. The Rimouski Oc茅anic are the fourth and final team in the tournament, entering as the hosts, having lost to Moncton in the QMJHL finals.

London Knights (OHL)

• Austin Elliott – Notre Dame Hounds

Medicine Hat Tigers (WHL)

• Andrew Basha – South Alberta Hockey Academy
• Carter Cunningham – South Alberta Hockey Academy
• Cayden Lindstrom – Delta Hockey Academy
• Kadon McCann – RHA Kelowna/South Alberta Hockey Academy
• Gavin McKenna – RHA Kelowna/South Alberta Hockey Academy
• Harrison Meneghin – Delta Hockey Academy
• Tanner Moldendyk – Yale Hockey Academy
• Tyson Moss – Yale Hockey Academy
• Ethan Neutens – Edge School
• Marcus Pacheco – OHA Edmonton
• Liam Ruck – Okanagan Hockey Academy
• Markus Ruck – Okanagan Hockey Academy
• Ryder Ritchie – RHA Kelowna
• Hunter St. Martin – OHA Edmonton
• Jordan Switzer – Northern Alberta Xtreme
• Josh Van Mulligen – South Alberta Hockey Academy
• Mathew Ward – Delta Hockey Academy/North Shore Warriors
• Oasiz Wiesblatt – South Alberta Hockey Academy

Moncton Wildcats (QMJHL)

• Aiden Diamond – Mount Academy
• 脡tienne Morin – CIH Academy

The Knights took the Thunder Bay, ON forward in the fifth round, 88th overall on Saturday. Ritson has spent the last two seasons in the 黑料不打烊 with RHA Winnipeg.

During the 2023/24 season he finished fourth in team scoring with 41 points in 27 U15 Prep games. With just two penalty minutes on the season he would be named the 黑料不打烊 U15 Prep Most Sportsmanlike award winner as voted by the coaches. That season he would be named the 黑料不打烊 December U15 Prep Player of the Month and add 11 points in just 4 playoff games.

This season Ritson made the jump to the RHA Winnipeg U18 Prep team. He would finish second in team scoring with 57 points, while leading his team with 37 assists in 36 games. His offensive outburst would see him named to the 黑料不打烊 U18 Prep Media Top Freshman (2009 born) Team.