Orlando Solar Bears

The Orlando Solar Bears are a professional ice hockey team that plays their home games at the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida. They play in the South Division of the ECHL's Eastern Conference.

History
After going into Hibernation for 11 years after playing 6 years (1995-2001) of Hockey in the International Hockey League, the East Coast Hockey League (ECHL) announced in November 2011 that an ECHL will come to Orlando.

After posting 28-37-3-4 with 63 while missing the playoffs in the first season back of Solar Bears hockey, the Bears finished with an improved 43-24-2-3 with 91 points enough to send them to the playoffs. The Solar Bears lost in the first round to the Cincinnati Cyclones 4 games to 2. The Solar Bears gain lost in the first round in 6 games, but this time by their state rivals, the Florida Everblades after posting a record of 37-25-6-4 with 84 in the 2014-15 NHL season. After the Solar Bears missed the playoffs for the second time in four seasons, the Bears finished 36-26-7-3 with 82 points. After the Bears took a 2-0 lead on the Everblades, the Blades won late into the first overtime of Game 3. After clearly getting ready to move onto the South Carolina Stingrays, the Solar Bears lost the next three games after taking out the Bears' star goaltender, Ryan Massa after a line brawl ensued.

In May 2017 after many financial issues, Solar Bears owner Joe Haleski sold the Bears to the Bears bigger Amway Center team, the Orlando Magic owners, the DeVos family.

In late June 2017, the Bears announced that the first player that would be returning for the 2017-18 is Austin Block.

All- Time

 * Goals = Eric Faille (51)
 * Assists = Eric Faille (79)
 * All- Time Points = (121)

Season records

 * Goals = Joe Perry (35)
 * Assists = Eric Faille (43)

Other records

 * Height = 6-7 (Taylor Doherty)
 * Weight = 240 (Trevor Gillies)