Lake Erie Bighorns

The Lake Erie Bighorns were a USA Hockey-sanctioned ice hockey team from Summit Township, Pennsylvania. The team commenced play with the 2008-09 season as the Michigan Mountain Cats in the Great Lakes Junior Hockey League. The team joined the North American 3 Hockey League in 2011. The team relocated to Jamestown, New York in 2014. They played in the North American 3 Hockey League at the Jamestown Savings Bank Ice Arena until 2018. The team was based out of the ErieBank Sports Park in Summit Township, Pennsylvania until their demise in 2022.
The team along with the other five teams in the East Division from the 2017-18 NA3HL Season moved to the United States Premier Hockey League to form the Great Lakes Conference within the organizations Premier Division. 
Due to the relocation of the Philadelphia Rebels of the North American Hockey League during the 2018 off season the team was sold to Kyler Speice and relocated to Erie, Pennsylvania and were renamed the Erie Bighorns. Speice had been the owner, general manager, and head coach of the Lake Erie Eagles of the Canadian Premier Junior Hockey League. He then folded the Eagles and started to build the Bighorns who are based out of ErieBank Sports Park in Summit Township, Pennsylvania.
The team would cease operations in August of 2022 in what the team described as a conflict with the arena after an attempt to relocate the team back to Jamestown, New York. https://thejuniorhockeynews.com/the-death-pool-big-game-hunting-guest-writer/
==Season-by-season==
Season 	GP 	W 	L 	T 	OL 	GF 	GA 	Pts 	Result 	Playoffs
Michigan Mountain Cats	Michigan Mountain Cats 	Michigan Mountain Cats 	Michigan Mountain Cats 	Michigan Mountain Cats 	Michigan Mountain Cats 	Michigan Mountain Cats 	Michigan Mountain Cats 	Michigan Mountain Cats 	Michigan Mountain Cats 	Michigan Mountain Cats
2008-14 	Information Unavailable	Information Unavailable	Information Unavailable	Information Unavailable	Information Unavailable	Information Unavailable	Information Unavailable	Information Unavailable	Information Unavailable 	Information Unavailable
Southern Tier Express 	Southern Tier Express 	Southern Tier Express 	Southern Tier Express 	Southern Tier Express 	Southern Tier Express 	Southern Tier Express 	Southern Tier Express 	Southern Tier Express 	Southern Tier Express 	Southern Tier Express
2014–15 	47 	26 	20 	- 	1 	178 	156 	53 	4th of 6 East,18th of 31 overall 	L 0-2, Metro Jets
2015–16 	47 	8 	35 	- 	4 	97 	218 	20 	6th of 6 East,T-30th of 34 overall	Did not qualify
2016–17 	47 	15 	28 	- 	4 	142 	182 	34 	6th of 6 East, 	Did not qualify
Season 	GP 	W 	L 	OL 	SL 	GF 	GA 	Pts 	Result 	Playoffs
2017–18 	47 	23 	24 	0 	0 	162 	164 	46 	T-4th of 6 East 	L Div SF 0-2, Metro Jets
2019-20 	44 	20 	22 	2 	- 	210 	141 	42 	4th of 6 Great Lakes 	Lost Division Semifinals
2020-21 	42 	17 	24 	1 	0 	129 	156 	35 	5th Great Lakes 	Lost Division Quarterfinals
2021-22 	44 	10 	30 	4 	- 	115 	260 	24 	6th Great Lakes 	Lost Division Quarterfinals
==References==
Category:Established in 2008
Category:North American 3 Hockey League teams
Category:USPHL teams
Category:Disestablished in 2022