ECHL Notebook: Orlando Solar Bears Defeat Jacksonville Icemen, 5-1

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By Mike Bonts, Florida Sports Wire

ORLANDO - The Orlando Solar Bears ousted the Jacksonville Icemen 5-1 in a penalty filled game Saturday night before 7,002 at the Kia Center in Orlando.

Trailing 2-0 in the first period Zach Jordan scored the lone Jacksonville goal. Robert Calisti and David Koch assisted on the power play goal. Matt Vernon made 27 saves in the loss.

Aaron Luchuk scored twice for Orlando. Darik Angeli recorded two assists. Michael Simpson stopped 29 shots for the Solar Bears.

Officials called a total of 94 minutes of penalties in the contest.

STINGRAYS PICKS UP POINT IN OT LOSS TO THE EVERBLADES

The South Carolina Stingrays picked up one point in a 4-3 overtime loss to the Florida Everblades on Saturday night.

Andrew Perrott, Grant Cruikshank, and Kyler Kupka scored for the Stingrays, while Seth Eisele made 24 saves in the loss.

Exactly one week after pitching a stellar 26-save shutout in his Everblades debut last Saturday, goaltender Will Cranley was sensational for a second-straight start, making 35 saves to improve to 2-0-0-0 for the good guys.

Cranley was busy in the first period, stopping all 11 South Carolina shots he faced in the game’s first 20 minutes. The Blades were outshot 11-5 in the opening frame, but with Cranley’s perfect run in goal continuing, the Everblades and Stingrays took a scoreless deadlock into the first intermission.

With the Everblades trailing 3-2 in the waning minutes of the third period and the Blades’ net empty, Alex Kile knotted the score at 3-3 with 1:16 to play with his first goal of the season. 

Colin Theisen, who picked up an assist on Kile’s tally, potted the game-winner just 46 seconds into overtime to close out the Everblades’ fifth win in six games to open the season.

With the victory, Florida improved to 5-1-0-0, while South Carolina dropped to 3-1-1-0 on the season.

ROSTER MOVES

The Syracuse Crunch of the American Hockey League (AHL) have loaned defenseman Tyson Feist to the Orlando Solar Bears. Feist, 23, appeared in two games for the Solar Bears last season and 31 games over the past two seasons scoring 16 points (5g-11a) in that span. The Dawson Creek, British Columbia native has also skated in 40 AHL games over three seasons with the Chicago Wolves and the Crunch.

The South Carolina Stingrays announced that Jayden Lee has been recalled by Hershey. Lee, 23, is in his first season of professional hockey. The North Vancouver, BC native has tallied two assists in four games for the Stingrays.  The defenseman played NCAA Division I hockey at Quinnipiac University from 2019-2024. In 172 career collegiate games, Lee tallied 73 points (16 goals, 57 assists). Lee played a key role in helping Quinnipiac capture its first-ever national championship in 2022-23. 



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