Brandon is the president of Brandon Boone Amateur Athletic Association (“BBAAA”), which owns a fifty per cent (50%) interest in the Niagara Falls Canucks Junior A team of the Ontario Junior Hockey League (OJHL), and the Canucks’ director of community and minor hockey involvement. 

Brandon was born and raised in Niagara Falls.  He played his minor hockey in the Niagara Falls Minor Hockey Association (NFMHA) and junior hockey with the Canucks and the Thorold Blackhawks in what is now the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League (GOJHL) in the mid to late 1980’s.  He made one exhibition game appearance with the Newmarket Flyers in what is now the OJHL in 1985. 

Having always been a better student than hockey player, Brandon left for York University in Toronto after graduating high school in 1987, returning for one final playoff run with the Canucks in 1988, commuting back and forth for games and practices.  Brandon earned a bilingual Bachelor of Arts degree from Glendon College of York University in 1990 and a Juris Doctor degree from Osgoode Hall Law School of York University in 1993.

Brandon returned to Niagara after graduation, articling with a major regional law firm from 1993 to 1994.  After successfully completing the bar admission course, with honours, in 1995, he was called to the bar and has practiced business, real estate and wills and estates law since then.  In 2005, Brandon became a senior partner of Daniel & Partners LLP, one of Niagara’s oldest, largest and most prestigious law firms.

Brandon began his coaching career during the 1993-1994 season and is now a High Performance 1 (HP1) certified coach, who has coached at every local level, from the initiation program (U7), to house league, to B, BB, AA and AAA, to Junior B and Junior C, both boys and girls and as a parent and non-parent.  He continues to coach in the NFMHA at the AA level.  Brandon has also been a director of the NFMHA since 2013 and is currently its risk management officer. 

Brandon has been a coach facilitator/instructor with the Ontario Minor Hockey Association (OMHA) since 2015.  At the conclusion of the 2015-2016 season, he was honoured at the OMHA’s annual general meeting with their Excellence in Development Award for his work with the NFMHA’s initiation program (U7).  Brandon has been an OMHA Code of Conduct hearing and appeal panel member since 2022.

Brandon and his wife, Jody, have four children, Brielle, Easton, A.J. and Aric.  Only their youngest, Aric, still plays hockey.  They live in St. Davids, not far from the Canucks’ and NFMHA’s home arena, the Gale Centre, where they spend a lot of their time.