The Motor City Chiefs are a USA Hockey

USA Hockey

USA Hockey is recognized by the International Olympic Committee and the United States Olympic Committee as the governing body for amateur ice hockey in the United States and is a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation. The organization is based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and has...

-sanctioned Tier III Junior B ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 team that plays in the Great Lakes Junior Hockey League

Great Lakes Junior Hockey League

The Great Lakes Junior Hockey League , an American Tier III Junior B ice hockey league. The league has 12 teams located in the Great Lakes region of the Midwestern United States.-History:...

 (GLJHL). The team plays their home games at the Canfield Ice Arena in Dearborn Heights

Dearborn Heights, Michigan

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, Michigan

Michigan

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. The players, ages 16–20, carry amateur status under Junior B guidelines and hope to earn a spot on higher levels of junior ice hockey

Junior ice hockey

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 in the United States

United States

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 and Canada

Canada

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, Canadian Major Junior, Collegiate, and eventually professional

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 teams.

The Chiefs organization previously fielded a Tier III Junior A ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 team in the Central States Hockey League

Central States Hockey League

The North American 3 Hockey League is an American Tier III Junior "A" ice hockey league that consists of 16 teams from Illinois, Ohio, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri and Pennsylvania....

 and also fields select youth teams at the Squirt, Bantam, Midget Minor U16, and Midget Major U18 and girls program set to begin for the 2010-11 season at the U12, U14, U16 levels.

Alumni

The Chiefs have had many alumni move on to higher levels of junior ice hockey

Junior ice hockey

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, NCAA Division I, Division III, ACHA

Acha

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 College, a profesional levels.

External links

• Official Team Website