Iron Range Yellow Jackets
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The Iron Range Yellow Jackets were a Junior "B" ice hockey
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 team from Coleraine
Coleraine, Minnesota
As of the census of 2000, there were 1,110 people, 443 households, and 317 families residing in the city. The population density was 178.5 people per square mile . There were 462 housing units at an average density of 74.3 per square mile...

, Minnesota
Minnesota
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, United States
United States
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. This defunct hockey team was a part of the Minnesota Junior Hockey League
Minnesota Junior Hockey League
The Minnesota Junior Hockey League is a USA Hockey Tier III sanctioned junior ice hockey league operated out of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul in Minnesota. The league currently has eight member teams in Minnesota and Wisconsin...

 and an interleague member of the Junior "A" Superior International Junior Hockey League
Superior International Junior Hockey League
The Superior International Junior Hockey League is a Junior A ice hockey league under the supervision of the Canadian Junior Hockey League and Hockey Canada. The winner of the SIJHL playoffs competes for the Dudley Hewitt Cup with the winners of the Ontario Junior Hockey League and the Northern...

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History

The Yellow Jackets played in the MnJHL until 2002, in that season they doubled their schedule in the SIJHL in the Thunder Bay
Thunder Bay
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, Ontario
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, region of Ontario
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, Canada
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. From 2002 on, Iron Range seemingly fell off the map. They may have merged with the South Suburban Steers to create the Twin Cities Northern Lights
Twin Cities Northern Lights
The Twin Cities Northern Lights is a Tier III Jr. A ice hockey team located in Bloomington, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis-Saint Paul. The Northern Lights Hockey team plays in the Minnesota Junior Hockey League ....

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Season-by-Season Standings

Season GP W L T OTL GF GA P Results Playoffs
2001-02 24 12 10 2 0 102 88 26 Interleague SIJHL
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