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.

[2] 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.

With the lack of teams, the GLJHL decided to take a new direction for the 2012–13 season and switched to junior roller in-line hockey.

The Chiefs played the 2014–15 season in the American Inline Hockey League but have since been quiet.