David Branch served as OHL commissioner for 45 years before his retirement in 2024 and was also CHL president from 1996 to 2019.

The 1977 John Marshall Rockets are still the only high school hockey team from Rochester to win a state championship. They'll have a jersey retired in their honor prior to Tuesday's home game.

David Branch, who spent 45 years as the commissioner of the Ontario Hockey League, died Sunday, the OHL announced. He was 77.

The Ottawa 67’s first decade was all about the growing pains and the little steps to respectability. The second decade for the franchise, from 1977-87, was all about establishing the 67’s as one of ...

In the great tradition of hockey comedies–wait, is there a tradition of hockey comedies? Anyway, this one was seriously undervalued in 1977 and is viewed today as a landmark in cynical sports humor as ...

It came in 1977, when Roger Neilson, a non-NHLer, a former high school math teacher and career high school and junior hockey coach, took over as head coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Neilson brought ...