After a successful Jamboree weekend in Moncton September 6th and 7th the NBPEI Major U18 Hockey League kicks off the 2025-26 season Friday September 19th, with the Saint John Vitos hosting the Kensington Wild, 8 pm at the QPlex in Saint John and the Northern Moose travelling to Charlottetown to play the Knights at 7 pm at Bell Aliant Center.  Saturday, Saint John will be on the road in Moncton to play the Flyers 7:30 pm at the Greenfoot Energy 4-Plex. The weekend wraps up Sunday afternoon with the Northern Moose playing the Fredericton Caps at 2 pm at the Willie O'Ree. 

Teams will play a 38 game schedule for the 2025-26 season including 3 interlocking games each with the Nova Scotia U18 Major League.  The Interlocking games will take place during the NBPEI - NS showcase the weekend of October 24th - 26th at Credit Union Place in Summerside PEI and Dec 5th - 7th at the Amherst Stadium in Amherst, NS.  In addition to regular season play, all teams will be participating in both the Monctonian Hockey Tournament, November 13th- 16th in Moncton, NB and the IceJam Tournament , January 7th - 11th in Bedford, NS

This season, like last, live scoring of games is available on the league website with all regular season games being streamed using AO Live (https://www.ao.live/nbpeimu18)

The NBPEI Major U18 Hockey League held its annual spring meeting May 24, 2025 in Moncton in preparation for the 2025-26 season. Highlights from the meeting include the date for the league Jamboree in Moncton, September 6th and 7th, Interlocking League Showcase with the NS U18 Major Hockey League, October 24th-26th at Credit Union Place in Summersdie PEI and a standardize playoff format of best-of-seven for both NB and PEI playoff series.

The NBPEI Major U18 League is set to start regular season play September 19th.  League schedule is expect to be posted mid summer.

The Moncton Flyers capped off a successful weekend with a 5 - 3 victory over the Kensington Wild at the 2025 U18 Major AAA Atlantics, April 2nd - 6th at the Credit Union Centre in Kensington. The Flyers ended the round robin play with a first place finish followed by the Host Kensington Wild.  Moncton will now represent the Atlantic Region at the upcomingTelus Championships in Chilliwack BC, April 21st - 26th.

The NBPEI Major U18 Hockey League would like to congratulate the Flyers on the Atlantics win and wish them all success and the notionals. 

The 2025 U18AAA Major Atlantics will be hosted by the Kensington Wild, April 2nd to 6th at Credit Union Centre in Kensington PEI. With the event being held in PEI the NBPEI Major U18 Hockey League will have representation from both the Island Major U18 teams as well as the New Brunswick Major U18 Champions.  The Charlottetown Knights will represent as Team PEI and the Prince Edward Island Major U18 Provincial Champion Kensington Wild will be the Host Team.

The Moncton Flyers are returning to the Atlantics as Team NB after beating the Fredericton Caps 4 - 1 in games in the New Brunswick Major U18 Provincial Championship.  Nova Scotia's representative will be the Halifax Macs coming off a 3-2 best of 5 series win over the Weeks Majors. 

The first game of the Atlantics Championship sees Team PEI taking the tournament Hosts Wednesday at 7:30 pm. Gametimes, Thursday through Saturday are 12:30 pm, 4:00 pm and 7:30 pm with the Gold Medal game is scheduled for Sunday April 6th.  More details on the Atlantics can be found at:   u18-male.atlanticaaahockey.ca   

The NBPEI Major U18 Hockey League announced its League Awards with the conclusion of the 2024-25 regular season on March 2nd.  The Fredericton Caps are the 2024-25 League Champions.  Both the Fredericton Caps and Moncton Flyers ended up tied with 55 points after 37 games, however the Caps won four games of seven in head to head play securing the league title.

Following are individual awards based on league statistics and those voted by teams:

This season the NSU18 Major Hockey League, NBPEI Major U18 Hockey League and the NS U16AAA Hockey League joined together to raise funds for the Hockey Fights Cancer Campaign. Teams held events over the first four months of the 2024-25 hockey season leading up to the cheque presentation during the 2025 IceJam Tournament located in Bedford NS on January 11th.  A total of $47,401.74 was raised for the Cancer Society.  Thanks to all those that contributed to this years campaign.