Former NHL player Rob Ramage has been found guilty on all charges in a drunk driving crash in York Region that left another former hockey star dead.

The jury of eight men and four women deliberated for five hours in a Newmarket courthouse before reaching the verdict. Ramage, 48, faced five charges in connection with the 2003 collision in Vaughan that killed former Chicago Blackhawk Keith Magnuson. He was found guilty of all of them, including the most serious, impaired driving causing death. That conviction carries a maximum sentence of life in prison.

Magnuson, 56, died instantly of head and chest injuries when the rental car driven by Ramage slammed head on into a Nissan Pathfinder on December 15, 2003.

Michelle Pacheco, 39, the driver of the Pathfinder, suffered a broken heel and upper body tissue damage in the horrific crash that occurred about 30 minutes after Ramage and Magnuson left a funeral reception for NHL alumni president Keith McCreary.

The ex-Leafs captain was also found guilty of impaired and dangerous driving causing injury. He showed no emotion in court but his wife, relatives and friends wept.

Despite having at least two and a half times the legal limit of alcohol in his system, there wasn't any evidence that Ramage had consumed a single drink that day. The defence had argued that the strong smell of alcohol at the crash scene was on account of beer cans that had exploded in the crash.

He was working as a financial advisor in St. Louis where he lives with his wife and three children, but the convictions could prevent him from going back. Sentencing occurs on January 17, 2008.