Thomson, who later earned the nickname White-Pine, was taught how to skate as a toddler by his mother and played his amateur hockey in the Northern Ontario Hockey Association with the Falonbridge-Garson organization. After spending the 1969-70 season with the IHL's Fort Wayne Komets, Thomson was invited to play summer hockey in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Thomson spent the 1971-72 season in the former Western Hockey League with the Denver Spurs, a team he captained to a championship, the first of three rings he'd win during his minor-pro career.
Was taken under the wing of veterans Gary Sabourin, Red Berenson and Garry Unger early in his career with the Blues and is described as a player to took pride at both ends of the ice.

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