Lake Erie Bighorns

The Lake Erie Bighorns are 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 is now based out of the ErieBank Sports Park in Summit Township, Pennsylvania.

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.