The first year for the Newmarket Royals was moderately successful, finishing 5th in the Leyden Division with a winning record.

For every goal the Royals scored at home in the series that year (11 in total), a stuffed wolf was hung in the rafters.

The Newmarket Royals were the only team in OHL and CHL history to go winless in away games for an entire season.

Shawn Mackenzie, a native of Bedford, Nova Scotia played in the OHL for the Windsor Spitfires and Oshawa Generals, and briefly for the New Jersey Devils in 1983.

Pictured are the home and away jerseys of # 8 Aaron Brand, that the team wore in their two seasons in the OHL.