Cornwall Royals
Memorial Cup Champions 1981

Windsor Arena, Windsor, Ontario

Team Roster
Marc Crawford (captain), Dale Hawerchuk, Scott Arniel, Doug Gilmour, Fred Arthur, Fred Boimistruck, Eric Calder, Gilles Crepeau, Jeff Eatough, Dan Frawley, Craig Haliday, John Kirk, Marc Lalonde, Joe Mantione, Sandy Mitchell, Stephen Molaski, Gerard Peltier, Roy Russell, Robert Savard, Tom Graovac (goalie), Corrado Micalef (goalie).

Coach - Bob Kilger

The Cornwall Royals, a team from Ontario, represented the province of Quebec in the Memorial Cup tournament.

This would be Cornwall's last season in the QMJHL. The Royals would play in the Ontario Hockey league / OHL the next season.

The Royals wanted to go out in a blaze of glory. They finished with the league's best regular-season record -44 wins-26 losses-2 ties, while scoring a league-high 403 goals in the process.

Hawerchuk won the QMJHL scoring championship, his 183 points providing a 17-point margin over Alain Lemieux of the Trois-Rivieres Draveurs. Hawerchuk also led the league in goals (81) and assists (102).

The Royals became the fourth team to win back-to-back Memorial Cup championships when they defeated the Kitchener Rangers 5-2 behind three goals from Scott Arniel before a sellout crowd of 4,500.
It was the Royals' third Memorial Cup title in 12 years.

The 1981 tournament belonged to Dale Hawerchuk, who earlier in the week had been named major junior Hockey's player of the year.

For the second straight year, Hawerchuk was the tournament's top scorer. And this time he was named the most valuable player. He set one tournament record by scoring eight goals and tied another by totalling 13 points.

Round-robin results
May 3 - Cornwall 6-3 Kitchener
May 4 - Victoria 7-4 Kitchener
May 5 - Cornwall 3-1 Victoria
May 6 - Kitchener 6-4 Cornwall
May 7 - Kitchener 4-2 Victoria
May 8 - Cornwall 8-4 Victoria

Final
May 10 - Cornwall 5-2 Kitchener

- Stafford Smythe Memorial Trophy (MVP): Dale Hawerchuk, Cornwall Royals
- George Parsons Trophy (Sportsmanship): Mark Morrison, Victoria Cougars
- Hap Emms Memorial Trophy (Goaltender): Corrado Micalef, Cornwall Royals

Memorial Cup All-Star Team
Goal: Corrado Micalef, Cornwall
Defence: Fred Arthur, Cornwall; Joe McDonnell, Kitchener
Centre: Dale Hawerchuk, Cornwall
Left wing: Marc Crawford, Cornwall
Right wing: Brian Bellows, Kitchener

NOTE
The black Hockey player in this photo is Roy Russell, who as a 16 year had his throat sliced by a Hockey skate blade. He recovered, continued to play, became a national champion in this pic, but more importantly, his injury was one of the defining moments in the implementation of "neck guards" being mandated for all players in minor Hockey.