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