Long-time hockey player and coach John Brophy, who spent most of his career in the hard-knocks minor leagues, set a record in the Eastern Hockey League with nearly 4,000 penalty minutes as a player, ...

Gregg Inkpen, an author and avid sports fan who resides in Massapequa Park, has been digging into the history of the now defunct hockey team known as the Long Island Ducks. In the 1990s, Inkpen wrote ...

The car crash in 2000, in his native Nova Scotia, cost the coaching legend his sight in one eye and left him with lingering leg, back and hip problems. Something sharp pierced his chest and just ...

NORFOLK, Va. (WVEC) -- He was the last of the old school coaches. John Brophy, who was the first and only coach of the Hampton Roads Admirals died Monday at the age of 83. He reportedly was battling ...

John Brophy, the long-time hockey coach who spent three years behind the bench for the Toronto Maple Leafs, has passed away at the age of 83, according to Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman. Brophy coached ...

He was nowhere near the most successful Leafs coach, nor was John Brophy among the longest-serving of the 30 men who have stood behind the Toronto bench. None were more colourful than the Antigonish, ...

John Brophy’s former players describe the legendary minor-league hockey coach’s philosophy in simple terms: Give him your best effort, and he would be loyal to you forever. Brophy, one of the sport’s ...

TORONTO (AP) — John Brophy, who coached the Toronto Maple Leafs for 2-1/2 seasons before coaching in the ECHL for 13 seasons, has died. He was 83. The ECHL says Brophy, who was from Nova Scotia, died ...