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 
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