Their first home game at the Gravenhurst Centennial Centre took place on September 15, 2006, against the eventual league, playoff, and Alliance Cup champion Bradford Rattlers.

On November 21, 2006, Shield left winger and captain Garrett Hamel was heavily injured in a head-on collision.

He was flown to Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto and required surgery to repair his broken talus, knee cap, femur, radius, pinky finger, and a shattered pelvis.

Seventh place out of seven teams, the Shield were forced to face the fourth-place Deseronto Thunder in the league quarter-final.

The Shield elected to take a bye in the first round of the playoffs and found themselves in the quarter-finals with the defending champions Bradford Rattlers.

On December 29, 2008, the South Muskoka Shield played an exhibition game against Kazakhstan's Torpedo UST-Kamenogorsk Under-18 squad.

On April 2, 2011, the South Muskoka Shield lost the Russell Cup championship in game seven to the Elliot Lake Bobcats, 8–5.

[3] The team was replaced in Gravenhurst by the Muskoka Anglers of the Canadian Premier Junior Hockey League.