1979-80 NJHL Season

Regular Season
This is a list of NorMan Junior Hockey League Standings for the 1979-80 season. Team                       GP   W    L    T   GF    GA    P  Thompson King Miners        36   27    9   0   207  158    54 Flin Flon Bombers          36   22   12   2   221  201    46 Snow Lake Spartans         36   14   19   3   261  242    31 The Pas Lumber Kings       36    6   29   1   167  297    13

Playoffs
Semi-Finals
 * Thompson defeated Snow Lake 3-games-to-2 (7-3, 7-8, 6-5, 5-6, 5-3)
 * Flin Flon defeated The Pas 3-games-to-none

Final
 * Thompson defeated Flin Flon 3-games-to-none (9-3, 8-1, 9-7)

Manitoba Championship

 * Turnbull Cup Championship
 * Thompson lost to Selkirk Steelers (MJHL) 3-games-to-none
 * see 1980 Turnbull Cup

Season Highlights

 * November 18, 1979---Barry Danielson score five goals in a losing effort as the Snow Lake Spartans fell 7-6 to the Thompson King Miners.
 * January 6, 1980---Paul Leclair scored six goals to lead the Snow Lake Spartans to an 11-7 win over the Thompson King Miners.

Game Reporting
Due to the remoteness of the NMJHL, the only major distribution newspaper to cover the league was the Winnipeg Free Press. Of the 72 league games of 79-80, the Winnipeg Free Press only reported 46 of these game, leaving 26 games undetermined.


 * Oct16-79: T 9 - TP 6· T 7 - TP 6
 * Oct22-79: SL 12 - TP 5· T 6 - SL 5· FF 7 - TP 4
 * Oct29-79: T 5 - FF 0· FF 6 - T 5
 * Nov06-79: FF 8 - SL 6· T 12 - TP 2· SL 14 - FF 7· T 13 - TP 4
 * Nov12-79: FF 5 - SL 4· TP 4 - T 2· FF 11 - SL 9· T 11 - TP 7
 * Nov15-79: FF 7 - TP 6
 * Nov19-79: FF 8 - TP 6· T 4 - SL 2· FF 7 - TP 2· T 7 - SL 6
 * Nov24-79: T 8 - FF 0
 * Nov26-79: SL 9 - TP 7· SL 12 - TP 6· T 10 - FF 4
 * Dec03-79: T 10 - SL 4
 * Dec10-79: TP 7 - SL 4· T 6 - SL 5
 * Dec17-79: SL 5 - FF 4· T 8 - TP 4· T 5 - TP 4
 * Dec21-79: SL 7 - TP 4
 * Jan04-80: SL 12 - TP 4
 * Jan07-80: T 9 - SL 4· TP 8 - FF 5· SL 11 - T 7· FF 13 - TP 5
 * Jan21-80: T 8 - FF 2· SL 11 - TP 4· FF 6 - T 5· SL 15 - TP 6
 * Jan28-80: T 15 - TP 1
 * Feb04-80: T 6 - SL 5· T 8 - SL 7
 * Feb13-80: SL 9 - TP 9
 * Feb18-80: T 9 - SL 2· T 11 - SL 3