June 2, 1992   Unveil inagural 1992-93 regular season.

June 4, 1992   Owner Terry Simpson names his brother Wayne Simpson as the Club’s first General Manager, who in turn names Peter Anholt as the Club’s first Head Coach.

June 5, 1992   Acquire overage center Todd Johnson from the Memorial Cup Champion, Kamloops Blazers to complete a trade made at the 1992 WHL Bantam Draft.

June 29, 1992   Red Deer participates in the first ever Canadian Hockey League Import Draft and makes 18 year old Vaclav Slansky, from Kladno, CSFR the first overall selection (44 CHL Teams)

June 30, 1992   Acquire 18 year old Ponoka native, Dean Tiltgen from the Tri-City Americans to complete a trade made at the 1992 WHL Bantam Draft.

June 30, 1992   Complete Phase Three of the WHL Expansion Draft by selecting five players in the 20 year old draft.

August 21, 1992  Name Carter Sears,  Head Scout and Scott Grimwood as Trainer .  Grimwood replaces Murray Stephens who has accepted the trainer’s position with the Cape Breton Oilers of the American Hockey League.  Also name Rick Pankiw as Club’s Assistant Coach and Andy Nowicki as the Club’s Goaltending Coach.

August 25, 1992  Rebels first ever Training Camp opens with 125 players taking part in Rookie Camp.

August 28, 1992  Main Camp opens with 15 players from Rookie Camp and another 115 prospects competing for jobs.

September 1, 1992  The Blacks defeat the Reds 11-4 in the first ever Inter-Squad Game

September 4, 1992  The Rebels play their first ever exhibition game losing 6-4 to the Tri-City Americans in Edmonton.  The same two teams also meet the following night in Sylvan Lake with the same result - a 7-4 loss for the Rebels.

September 11, 1992  Red Deer wins its first ever exhibition game against the defending East Division Pennant winners, Prince Albert Raiders 5-2 in Leduc.  The Rebels also post a 4-2 win in the return match the following night in Camrose.

September 18, 1992  The Rebels conclude their six game exhibition schedule with two weekend losses to the Lethbridge Hurricanes (7-5 in Lethbridge and 6-4 at the Centrium)

September 25, 1992  Red Deer opens up its first ever WHL regular season with a 6-3 win at home against the Prince Albert Raiders in front of 5,240 fans at the Centrium

September 30, 1992  After two consecutive home victories against the Prince Albert Raiders, the Rebels lost their first ever road game - 11-4 in Lethbridge

October 6, 1992  Red Deer posts its first ever road victory -  5-4 decision in Medicine Hat.  That win puts the Rebels in first place in the East Division.

October 9, 1992  The Rebels play their first ever overtime game at home, losing 6-5 to the Regina Pats.  Rookie Eddy Marchant records the Club’s first ever hat trick in a losing cause.

October 28, 1992  Red Deer suffers its fourth consecutive loss, a 7-3 decision to Swift Current.  The four game losing streak will be the longest of the season and will be equaled two more times during the 1992-93 season.

November 13, 1992  Darren Van Impe establishes a Club Record with five points (1-4-5) in a single game as the Rebels defeat the Brandon Wheat Kings 8-7.  The five points in a single game will be matched by Dean Tilgen, Ken Richardson, and Vaclav Slansky later in the season.

November 14, 1992  The Rebels play their first overtime game on the road in Moose Jaw, and end up with their first ever tie (5-5 score).  Red Deer also ties the Spokane Chiefs three nights later (5-5 score) at home for their only tie games of the season.

November 22, 1992  Brian Loney records the Club’s first and only four goal game of the season as they defeat the Lethbridge Hurricanes 6-4 at home.

December 6, 1992  Dean Tiltgen scores in overtime at home against Saskatoon for the Club’s first ever overtime win.  It also marked the only and last time the Rebels were two games over the .500 mark all season.

December 27, 1992  In -30 degree weather, the Rebels draw their largest home crowd of their brief existence (5,748) and defeat the Medicine Hat Tigers 6-5.

January 9, 1993  Red Deer records its first ever sell-out at the Centrium (6,476) against Seattle, but lose the game 6-5.

January 13, 1993  The Rebels defeat the first place Swift Current Broncos and in the process go over the 100,000 mark in total attendance after just 23 games.

January 31, 1993  Craig Reichert records the Rebels only hat trick on the road all season as Red Deer ends an 11-game losing streak in Lethbridge (7-3)

February 2, 1993  Red Deer wins a Club record fourth game in a row versus the Portland Winter Hawks (5-4)

February 5, 1993  The Rebels record their second sell-out of the year (6,221), but lose 5-4 in overtime to the Medicine Hat Tigers.

February 9, 1993  Red Deer defeats the Lethbridge Hurricanes 4-3 to establish a WHL Expansion record for most wins by an active franchise team with 24 (Tacoma Rockets 23 wins - Old Record)

February 14, 1993  In their third game in three nights, the Rebels end the Tacoma Rockets WHL Record home ice winning streak at 24 consecutive games.  Rebels win 3-1.

February 20, 1993  The Rebels are shutout for the first time. 2-0 in Tri-Cities, Lance Leslie records the shutout

February 24, 1993  Former WHL player Mike Moller joins the Rebels staff as an Assistant Coach.  He replaces Rick Pankiw who had to resign due to work commitments.  Moller had been the color commentator on all the Rebels  home radio broadcasts.

March 5, 1993   Dean Tiltgen scores his 100th point of the season in a 5-4 overtime win against the Brandon Wheat Kings.

March 8, 1993   Red Deer selects defenseman, Jesse Wallin from North Battleford, Saskatchewan with their first round pick in the WHL Bantam Draft held in Calgary.

March 9, 1993   In their greatest comeback of the season, the Rebels rebound from a 6-1 deficit in the second period to score seven unanswered goals to defeat the Prince Albert Raiders 8-6 at home.

March 13, 1993  With their seventh road win of the season (4-2 in Moose Jaw) the Rebels clinched a playoff spot in the East Division.

March 19, 1993  Red Deer records their largest crowd of the season and third sell-out (6,659), but still lose 6-5 in overtime to the Swift Current Broncos.

March 21, 1993  The Rebels conclude their first ever regular season with a 5-3 loss to the Moose Jaw Warriors.  Dean Tiltgen scores his 50th goal of the season in the loss.  It is only the second time all regular the Rebels have lost consecutive home games.  Red Deer finishes the season with a 31-39-2 record and leads all Canadian teams in the CHL in total attendance (38 teams) with over 165,000 fans.

March 23, 1993  Defenseman Darren Van Impe is named to the WHL’s East Division First All-Star Team, and Head Coach Peter Anholt is the East Division’s nominee for Coach of the Year.

March 26, 1993  Red Deer plays in its first ever play-off game in Saskatoon and defeated the Blades 2-1 in overtime as Darren Van Impe scores the winner

March 29, 1993  The Rebels play their first ever home playoff game against the Saskatoon Blades in Game Three of the East Division Quarter Final and lose a heartbreaker in overtime 3-2.

March 30, 1993  Red Deer’s inaugural season comes to an end with a 5-3 home ice loss to the Blades.  For the first time the Rebels are also live on TSN with just over 5,800 fans in attendance.  Saskatoon wins the best of five 3 games to 1.

April 4, 1993   The Rebels first ever Awards Banquet is held at the Capri Center with Darren Van Impe, Mark Dawkins, and Ken Richardson each winning three awards apiece.

May 5, 1993   Leading scorer Dean Tiltgen along with Cam McGregor are traded to the Victoria Cougars in exchange for 19 year old center Mike Barrie and 16 year old defenseman Byron Briske.

May 24, 1993   Rebels majority owner Terry Simpson is named Head Coach of the Philadelphia Flyers of the NHL.  Simpson had been the Assistant Coach with the Winnipeg Jets for the last three seasons.