Thomas Thornbury (born March 17, 1963) is a Canadian former professional
ice hockey
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player. He played 14 games in the
National Hockey League
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for the
Pittsburgh Penguins
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during the
1983–84 season. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1983 to 1996, was spent in the minor leagues and then in the German
Eishockey-Bundesliga
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. Thornbury was born in
Lindsay, Ontario
Lindsay is a community of 22,367 people ( 2021 census) on the Scugog River in the Kawartha Lakes region of south-eastern Ontario, Canada. It is approximately west of Peterborough. It is located in the City of Kawartha Lakes, and is the hub for ...
.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
External links
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1963 births
Living people
Baltimore Skipjacks players
Canadian ice hockey defencemen
Cornwall Royals (OHL) players
Frankfurt Lions players
Fredericton Express players
Grizzlys Wolfsburg players
Kölner Haie players
Moncton Golden Flames players
Muskegon Lumberjacks players
Niagara Falls Flyers players
North Bay Centennials players
Oklahoma City Blazers (1992–2009) players
Pittsburgh Penguins players
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in the United States
Ice hockey people from Kawartha Lakes
Aurora Tigers players
20th-century Canadian sportsmen
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