Badlands Sabres

The Badlands Sabres are a team in the North American 3 Hockey League (NA3HL). They began play with the 2016-17 NA3HL Season as an expansion team. The team was announced by the Missoula Area Youth Hockey Association on May 21, 2016 (after rumors had surfaced in the previous few weeks). The league formally announced the addition of the team to the league on May 31st.
The team signed a lease with the Glacier Ice Rink while the Western States Hockey League's (WSHL) Missoula Maulers were still tenants in the building. Reports online indicate that this may be the first of several battles between the USA Hockey-sanctioned NA3HL and the Amateur Athletic Union-sanctioned WSHL; as the leagues' footprints overlap. The WSHL team's owner had reached an impasse with the arena management on a new lease in the building and the Bruins organization had been approved as an expansion team by the NA3HL. The owner of the Missoula Maulers had folded the team around May 13th.
On April 27, 2021 the North American 3 Hockey League announced that the Missoula Bruins franchise had been sold and would be relocating to Roosevelt Park Ice Arena in Rapid City, South Dakota and would be renamed the Badlands Sabres.http://na3hl.com/news/story.cfm?id=31753
==Team Results==
Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, OL = Overtime losses, SL = Shootout Losses, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, Finish = Finish in Division, Playoffs = Results in playoffs
Season 	GP	W 	L 	OL	SL	GF 	GA 	Pts	Finish 	Playoffs
2016-17	47	27	16	3 	1 	224	137	58 	4th, Frontier	Lost Div. Quarterfinals vs Bozeman IceDogs 2-0
2017-18	47	17	28	2 	0 	149	235	36 	5th, Frontier	Did not qualify
2018-19	47	27	19	1 	0 	221	192	55 	4th, Frontier	Lost Div. Quarterfinals 1-2 vs Helena Bighorns
2019-20	47	17	29	1 	0 	161	190	35 	7th, Frontier	Did not qualify
2020-21	40	21	17	2 	0 	173	163	44 	4th, Frontier	Lost Division Semifinals
2021-22	47	19	25	2 	1 	154	216	41 	5th, Frontier	Lost Division Quarterfinals
2022-23	47	11	31	2 	3 	108	213	27 	8th, Frontier	Did not qualify
2023-24	47	19	22	3 	3 	157	164	44 	5th, Frontier	Did not qualify
==References==
Category:North American 3 Hockey League teams
Category:Established in 2016