Motor City Chiefs
The Motor City Chiefs were a Tier III ice hockey organization that played in the Central States Hockey League and Great Lakes Junior Hockey League. The team played their home games at the Canfield Ice Arena in Dearborn Heights, Michigan. The players, ages 16–20, carried amateur status under Junior A guidelines and hope to earn a spot on higher levels of junior ice hockey in the United States and Canada, collegiate, and eventually professional teams. The Chiefs have also fielded select youth teams at the Squirt, Bantam, Midget Minor U16, and Midget Major U18 and girls program at the U12, U14, U16 levels as well as roller in-line hockey teams.
History
From 1985 to 2010, the Motor City Chiefs organization fielded a USA Hockey-sanctioned Tier III Junior A ice hockey team in the Central States Hockey League. At the same time, the Chiefs also fielded a Tier III Junior B team in the Great Lakes Junior Hockey League.In 2010, the Chiefs sold their Junior A CSHL franchise to the local Michigan Mountain Cats organization. The Mountain Cats would actually end up using the Canfield Ice Arena for the first half of the 2010–11 season until finally moving into a home rink in nearby Farmington Hills, Michigan. Since 2014, the Chiefs' and Mountain Cats' Tier III junior franchise has operated as the Southern Tier Xpress out of Northwest Arena in Jamestown, New York.
The Chiefs continued with their Junior B GJLHL team, which was promoted by USA Hockey to Junior A in 2011, until summer 2012.