Solar Bears Weekly Check In: End of the Line

Fernando Medina/Orlando Solar Bears Remember the movie Airplane! from the early 1980s, when Lloyd Bridges’s character picked the wrong week to quit everything? Well, this week, it looks like it was the wrong week for the Orlando Solar Bears to go on a losing streak.

With four games remaining in the 2020-2021 season, the Solar Bears were barely hanging on to fourth place in the ECHL’s Eastern Conference, with South Carolina and Jacksonville nipping at their heels. All the team needed to do was beat both teams in regulation in three of their final four games, and a shot at the Kelly Cup was theirs.

Unfortunately, things did not work out that way, and the team finds themselves on the outside…