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

References[]

Winnipeg Free Press Archives
Thompson Citizen Archives