399:. So far from home, the Twins may have accomplished one of the greatest feats in amateur hockey history. The Corner Brook Royals crushed the jet-lagged Twins 9–5 in game one. Game two went a little better for the Twins, as they forced overtime but were overpowered by the Royals 3–2. Game three needed to be won by the Twins, but again they were embarrassed by the Eastern champions 9–5. With their back against the wall down 3-games-to-none, the Twins began their trek back. Game four ended with a 4–2 nail-biter of a win for the Twins. Game five saw the Twins embarrass a seemingly deflated Royals squad 8–3. The Twins took game six 2–0 and then finished the comeback with an unbearably close 5–4 victory. With their third Allan Cup victory, the Twins became the only team in Allan Cup history to come back from a 3–0 deficit to win the Allan Cup. As the tournament is now in a round robin format and a revert to best-of-sevens are very unlikely, the feat may never be repeated. In 1986 they were eliminated 4 game to 1 in the league final by the St. Boniface Mohawks.
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Hornets. Cambridge came back in game two and rocked the Twins 7–3. After this, the Twins battened down the hatches and fought through a pair of tight wins (5-3, 6–5) to clinch the series in game five with a
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and beat them 5–4 in overtime to clinch first place in the round robin. In the tournament semi-final, something went wrong for the twins. In their second straight game against the
Mohawks, the Twins were shocked 4-3 and eliminated from the tournament despite a 3–1 record. The Petrolia Squires won
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and defeated soundly 7–1 to clinch second place. Thunder Bay found themselves in a sudden death semi-final against
Montreal for the right to play in the final. The Twins beat Chomedey 6–3. The final was set up as a best-of-three games set and was against St. Boniface. The Twins avenged the 1981
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The 1989 Allan Cup brought a significant challenge to the Twins. After losing the league championship to the St. Boniface
Mohawks, the Twins hosted the Allan Cup round robin with three other teams. In game one of the round robin, the Twins met their old rival in the St. Boniface Mohawks and lost
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Thunder Bay Twins moved to the OHASr for the 1975–76 season, bringing the Allan Cup to the league it had just defeated to win the cup. The Twins played in the OHASr through the 1978–79 season. In those four seasons, the Twins won two regular season championships and one league playoff title.
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Western Canadian championship, the Twins found themselves yet again in the Allan Cup final. The Eastern champion was the Charlottetown Islanders, a team that the Twins had embarrassed in 1988 in a lopsided four-game-sweep. This time the Islanders
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appealed for reconsideration, the Twins entered the Allan Cup playoffs upon the conclusion of the USHL playoffs, then won the series versus the
Mohawks. In the Western Canada finals, the Twins won the best-of-five series with three consecutive victories versus the
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Manitoba and Western titles and find themselves in the Allan Cup final again. Playing at home in the Gardens, the Twins found themselves against a starkly lesser opponent. The Eastern champions in 1988 were the
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Thunder Bay was formed, the Port Arthur Bearcats and the Fort William Beavers, longtime teams playing in the Thunder Bay Senior A Hockey League (TBSHL), merged to form the Thunder Bay Twins for the 1970–71 season.
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Manitoba's Central Senior A Hockey League. In 1981, the Twins hosted a round robin tournament to determine an Allan Cup champion. The Twins started off the tournament against the
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for the Twins. He led the team to 36 wins in 48 games, and a second-place finish in the Northern Division. The Twins defeated the first-place
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Allan Cup semi-final loss to the Mohawks by defeating them 2-0 and then 4–2 to win their fifth Allan Cup championship.
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The 1974-75 Thunder Bay Twins were inducted into the Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 1987.
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convincing 6–1 win to clinch the team's second Allan Cup.
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