BY OJHL.ca
Oct 6, 2025
TRENTON, ON – East Conference Player of the Month Taeo Artichuk of the Trenton Golden Hawks skates with the puck during his team’s 7-1 win over North York at Duncan McDonald Memorial Community Gardens on Sept. 9. (Ed McPherson / OJHL Images)
October 3, 2025, Mississauga, Ontario – The Ontario Junior Hockey League (OJHL) announced today that Taeo Artichuk of the Trenton Golden Hawks has been named the East Conference Player-of-the-Month for September after he tallied a conference-leading 20 points during nine games. His seven goals included one on the power play and a game-winner.
In his third season with the Golden Hawks, the 20-year-old from Ajax amassed 89 points during 55 regular season games last season. His team won the OJHL regular season and playoff championships. Artichuk signed in Trenton following two years with Erie of the Ontario Hockey League.
Artichuk will be honoured during a pre-game ceremony this fall.
Joseph Cadorin of the Pickering Panthers was runner-up to Artichuk as the East Conference Player-of-the-Month. The Kleinburg product had eight goals and seven assists in seven games. Signed by the Peterborough Petes in 2023, the 18-year-old played four games with the OHL team last season.
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The Ontario Junior Hockey League is the largest Junior ‘A’ league operating under the auspices of the Canadian Junior Hockey League with 24 member clubs. A proud member of the CJHL and Ontario Hockey Association, the OJHL was originally named the Ontario Provincial Junior ‘A’ Hockey League and it was formed out of the Central Junior ‘B’ Hockey League in 1993-94. With a long and storied history of developing players for the next level, including U SPORTS, the NCAA, CHL, minor pro ranks and the NHL, the OJHL had more than 135 commitments in 2024-25, including 54 to NCAA Division 1 and 29 to the Ontario Hockey League. In addition, the OJHL had 39 OHL Affiliate Players who played 152 OHL games. Thirty-five OJHL alumni played in the NHL in 2025.