The Western Canada Bantam Hockey Championships were played over the weekend in Burnaby, B.C.  The host team, the Burnaby Winter Club Bruins were looking to avenge a disappointing finish to a very successful season, one in which they went 17-0-1 in league play.

 In the BC Provincials, the Bruins lost in the final to their cross town rival, the North Shore Winter Club Winter Hawks.  By way of the North Shore win, they earned themselves a birth in the Western as well.   The representative from Alberta was the Calgary Bisons, who featured two of the top prospects for the WHL Bantam Draft, Jon Merkley and Morgan Klimchuk.  They rolled through the AMBHL playoffs, defeating Fort Saskatchewan in the fifth and deciding game in the AMBHL finals 3-2. 

DRUMMONDVILLE, Saturday, June 5, 2010 - After acquiring the services of all-star netminder Olivier Roy from the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles yesterday, the Lewiston MAINEiacs made another blockbuster trade at the very beginning of the QMJHL Entry Draft, prying away the first overall selection from the Baie-Comeau Drakkar in order to select defenseman Dillon Fournier of the Lac St-Louis Lions.

The Halifax Mooseheads then selected forward Luca Ciampini with the second overall selection while the Chicoutimi Saguenéens picked defenseman Dominic Poulin third.