FRONT ROW: Darren Jensen, Rick Zaparniuk, Rick Meyers, Dean Dachyshyn, Marc
Chorney, Mark Taylor, Mel Donnelly, Head Coach Gino Gasparini, Bob Iwabuchi,
Erwin Martens, Phil Sykes, Mike Neitzke, Doug Smail, Brad Cox, Pierre
Lamoureux; BACK ROW: Equipment Manager Dave Kamrowski, Athletic Trainer
A.G. Edwards, Assistant Coach Rick Wilson, Glen White, Troy Magnuson,
Paul Chadwick, Mickey Volcan, Craig Ludwig, Gary Ganglehoff, Travis Dunn,
Glen Fester, Cary Eades, Howard Walker, Conway Marvin, Frank Burggraf, Dusty
Carroll, Trainer Todd Jorganson, Paul Jorganson, Assistant Coach Jim Nelson
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Northern Michigan vs North Dakota
March 29, 1980
NCAA Championship
Providence Civic Center, Providence, RI (6,056)
1st Period
UND-1: Doug Smail (Phil Sykes, Mark Taylor) 9:42
UND-2: Doug Smail (Phil Sykes, Travis Dunn) 12:48
2nd Period
UND-3: Doug Smail (Phil Sykes) 3:12
3rd Period
UND-4: Phil Sykes (unassisted) 8:42
NMU-1: Bill Joyce (Don Waddell, Tom Laidlaw) 14:29
NMU-2: Terry Houck (Keith Hanson, Jeff Pyle) 15:20
UND-5: Doug Smail (Phil Sykes, Frank Burggraf) 18:21
Penalties: UND 10-20; NMU 8-16
Shots: UND 13-20-12--45; NMU 5-5-12-22
Saves: UND Jensen 5-5-10--20; NMU Weeks 11-19-10--40
1979-80 Season Notes
- UND's longest NCAA Championship drought, 16 years, ended in 1980.
UND had lost 3-4 in 1979 to Minnesota in the title game.
- The 1980 championship was the first of three to which head coach
Gino Gasparini would lead UND
- North Dakota had lost twice previously in the season to future
WCHA conference member, Northern Michigan
- Sioux captain Mark Taylor, who led the Sioux with 92 points
in the season, played only part of the first period in the
championship before an injury forced him to leave the game
- Smail was the first UND player to score four goals in an
NCAA Championship game
- UND first-year goaltender Darren Jensen of Creston, B.C., made
20 saves in the win, ending his season with a 13-0-1 record
- UND had won only one (Dec 28, 1977, 8-4) of four games in UND
history against the Wildcats prior to the 1980 championship
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1979-80: The road to victory
| North Dakota |
4 |
North Dakota |
5 |
North Dakota
NCAA Champion |
| Dartmouth |
1 |
| Northern Michigan |
5 |
Cornell |
4 |
| Northern Michigan |
2 |
| Oct. 16 |
Canadian Olympic Team
Exhibition |
L 3-6 |
| Oct. 26/Oct. 27 |
Colorado College
|
L 2-3/W 9-4 |
| Nov. 02/Nov. 03 |
Michigan Tech
|
W 4-3/L 3-5 |
| Nov. 09/Nov. 10 |
at Denver
|
W 4-3/W 3-0 |
| Nov. 16/Nov. 17 |
St. Lawrence
|
W 4-3/W 7-0 |
| Nov. 23/Nov. 24 |
at Michigan State
|
W 9-2/L 4-5 (ot) |
| Nov. 30/Dec. 01 |
Minnesota
|
W 6-3/W 7-6 |
| Dec. 04 |
US Olympic Team
Exhibition |
L 1-6 |
| Dec. 07/Dec. 08 |
at Minnesota-Duluth
|
L 4-5 (ot)/W 4-3 (ot) |
| Dec. 21/Dec. 22 |
Ohio State
|
W 7-2/W 8-2 |
| Jan. 04/Jan. 05 |
at Northern Michigan
|
L 2-4/L 3-4 (ot) |
| Jan. 11/Jan. 12 |
Notre Dame
|
W 7-4/W 3-1 |
| Jan. 18/Jan. 19 |
Minnesota-Duluth
|
W 7-3/W 5-1 |
| Jan. 25/Jan. 26 |
at Colorado College
|
L 8-9 (ot)/W 7-3 |
| Feb. 01/Feb. 02 |
at Michigan Tech
|
T 3-3 (ot)/L 4-6 |
| Feb. 06 |
Japanese Olympic Team
Exhibition |
W 7-2 |
| Feb. 08/Feb. 09 |
Denver
|
W 7-1/W 5-2 |
| Feb. 15/Feb. 16 |
at Minnesota
|
W 5-3/W 6-2 |
| Feb. 22/Feb. 23 |
Michigan
|
W 5-2/W 4-3 (ot) |
| Feb. 29/Mar. 01 |
at Wisconsin
|
W 8-1/W 4-3 |
| Mar. 07/Mar. 08 |
Michigan State
WCHA Playoffs |
W 8-1/W 5-3 |
| Mar. 14/Mar. 15 |
Notre Dame
WCHA Playoffs |
W 10-5/W 7-4 |
| Mar. 27 |
at Dartmouth
NCAA Semifinal |
W 4-1 |
| Mar. 28 |
at Northern Michigan
NCAA Championship |
W 5-2 |
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