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| Des Moines Dowling and Des Moines Valley merge to form the Des Moines Valley-Dowling Tigers. |
| Sioux City Metro changes name to Sioux City Metros. |
| Through the 1983–84 season, a team would volunteer to host the Varsity year‑end tournament. Beginning next year, the League will rotate the tournament from city to city, giving all participating communities the opportunity to host the League’s premier event. |
| Des Moines Public Black Knights wins its first regular-season championship and its first tournament championship. (Des Moines Public merges with Urbandale the following season.) |
VARSITY REGULAR-SEASON CHAMPION
Des Moines Public Black Knights (15W-1L-0T)
VARSITY TOURNAMENT CHAMPION
March 2-4, 1984 - McElroy Auditorium - Waterloo, Iowa
Championship Game: Des Moines Public Black Knights 10, Urbandale J-Hawks 2
State high school hockey playoff pairings set PDF
(Mason City Globe Gazette - Tuesday, February 28, 1984)
DM Public caps rookie season with state title PDF
(Waterloo Courier - Monday, March 5, 1984)
VARSITY TOURNAMENT MOST VALUABLE PLAYER
Jim Webb - Des Moines Public
VARSITY COACH-OF-THE-YEAR
Noel Erickson - Ames Little Cyclones
VARSITY SPORTSMANSHIP AWARD
Des Moines Valley-Dowling Tigers
 VARSITY TOURNAMENT RESULTS March 2-4 - McElroy Auditorium - Waterloo, Iowa |
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| Play-in game | Sioux City 5, Dubuque 2 |
| Quarterfinals | Ames 4, Mason City 3 Urbandale 7, Des Moines Valley-Dowling 5 Waterloo Warriors 8, Waterloo Columbus 2 Des Moines Public 13, Sioux City 3 |
| Consolation Game | Mason City 7, Dubuque 0 |
| Seventh-Place Game | Waterloo Columbus 5, Dubuque 3 |
| Fifth-Place Game | Mason City 5, Des Moines Valley-Dowling 4, OT |
| Third-Place Game | Waterloo Warriors 7, Ames 4 |
| Championship Game | Des Moines Public 10, Urbandale 2 |
| VARSITY REGULAR-SEASON STANDINGS - Final | |||||||||
| Team | GP | W | L | T | Pts | GF | GA | Pn | PM |
| 1-Des Moines Public | 16 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 30 | 135 | 52 | 103 | 220 |
| 2-Waterloo Warriors | 16 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 24 | 140 | 59 | 99 | 206 |
| 3-Urbandale | 16 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 18 | 100 | 96 | 121 | 287 |
| 4-Mason City | 16 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 18 | 56 | 67 | 74 | 153 |
| 5-Ames | 16 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 18 | 74 | 61 | 57 | 116 |
| 6-Des Moines Valley-Dowling | 16 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 18 | 86 | 86 | 88 | 100 |
| 7-Waterloo Columbus | 16 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 12 | 55 | 75 | 76 | 162 |
| 8-Sioux City | 16 | 3 | 13 | 0 | 6 | 78 | 93 | 81 | 170 |
| 9-Dubuque | 16 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 172 | 122 | 332 |
| VARSITY TOP-10 SCORERS | ||||||
| RK | Last, First - Team | Go | Ast | Pts | Pn | PM |
| 1 | A. Driscoll, Des Moines Public | 33 | 28 | 61 | 8 | 18 |
| 2 | Troy Johnson, Urbandale | 38 | 22 | 60 | 7 | 14 |
| T3 | Brian Cook, Waterloo Warriors | 25 | 26 | 51 | 1 | 2 |
| T3 | Tony Ralph, Des Moines Public | 26 | 25 | 51 | 10 | 20 |
| 5 | Jim Webb, Des Moines Public | 27 | 19 | 46 | 6 | 12 |
| T6 | Doug Finch, Urbandale | 18 | 21 | 39 | 5 | 18 |
| T6 | Jim Hayes, Waterloo Warriors | 17 | 22 | 39 | 14 | 30 |
| 8 | Richard Moulton, Des Moines Valley-Dowling | 18 | 17 | 35 | 10 | 22 |
| T9 | Mike Laird, Des Moines Public | 14 | 20 | 34 | 18 | 36 |
| T9 | John Moulton, Des Moines Valley-Dowling | 7 | 27 | 34 | 9 | 18 |
| VARSITY SILVER-GLOVE GOALTENDERS | ||||||||||
| RK | Last, First - Team | GP | W | L | T | SOG | Svs | GA | SO | Pct |
| 1 | Matt Haws, Des Moines Public | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 186 | 162 | 24 | 2 | 0.871 |
| 2 | Rosenfeld, Mason City | 15 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 408 | 350 | 58 | 0 | 0.858 |
| 3 | Jackson, Ames | 15 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 384 | 327 | 57 | 1 | 0.852 |
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IOWA HIGH SCHOOL HOCKEY LEAGUE 1983-1984 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
President: Ross Brown - Cedar Falls, IA
Secretary/Treasurer: Ron Anderson - West Des Moines, IA
Vice President: Dennis Massier - Urbandale, IA
Vice President:
Ron Hanna - Mason City, IA
Vice President:
Jim Van Bergen - Ames, IA
Commissioner: Bill Kammeyer - Waterloo, IA
Referee-in-Chief: Kirk Talbott - Des Moines, IA
Statistician: Daryle Vegge - Ames, IA