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Hockey icon Ernie 'Punch' McLean killed in northern B.C. crash

โ€ขCBC News

Ernie 'Punch' McLean led the Western Hockey League (WHL) New Westminster Bruins to four consecutive Memorial Cup finals and two championships between 1975-1978, and coached more than 100 players who later skated in the NHL.

Tributes are pouring in for a towering figure in British Columbia's hockey community. Ernie "Punch" McLean, 93, died in a single-vehicle crash near Dease Lake about 230 kilometres south of the Yukonโ€ฆ