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Forecasting Lightning, Todd Skirving and Clint Windsor

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Summer Hockey related episodes are so hard to do. The Tampa Bay Lightning haven’t made many moves thus far, and we’ll say the worst case scenario regarding Brayden Point, and the true value of a player like Yanni Gourde for the Bolts.

Kelly Cup Champion and Former Orlando Solar Bears forward Todd Skirving joins us to talk about his championship season and the experience for him in Newfoundland! It was an expansion season for the Growlers, a team that included a few former Solar Bears, as well as former Asst. Coach John Snowden!

BONUS! We haven’t recorded a podcast for a few weeks, but every week we’ve done our show Tuesdays from 6p-7p on our host station, 96.9 the Game. Solar Bears Goaltender Clint Windsor is the first Solar Bears Signing for the 19/20 Season. Our conversation with Clint covered reasons he’s on the way back to Orlando, as well as some of the current NHL’ers Clint has played with through the years!

Tied at 2 – The Stanley Cup is up for Grabs! The Kelly Cup…is not!!!

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The Boston Bruins and St. Louis Blues find themselves tied at 2 games each (as of Thursday 6/6/19 @1p), and with Games 5 and 6 upon us, we’ll preview the games and recap the events of the first four.

The Newfoundland Growlers have won the Kelly Cup as the Champion of the ECHL Playoffs! With so many former Solar Bears on the team, there’s lots of reasons to be excited for the team! Of course though, with the end of the 2018/19 season…comes the shift to 2019/20 season, and activity has already started with the Orlando Solar Bears!

Jack Hughes or Kaapo Kakko. They’ll go 1 and 2 in the upcoming NHL Draft, but one thing is for certain: the Metropolitan Division is set for dominance in the years to come!

Solar Bears hit Newfoundland, RawCharge’s Matt Esteves and UCF Hockey Goes National!

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(1:08) Solar Bears play-by-play man Jesse Liebman joins us in studio for an extended talk about the teams’ trip to Newfoundland this past weekend and a recap of their games in Canada. We’ll also talk about the team’s game against Florida on Wednesday 3/13, and the physicality that came with the match. Plus, weeks ago we talked to Solar Bears Defenseman Cody Donaghey, who told us about the Newfoundland tradition called “Screeching”. Did Jesse get Screeched in?! Listen to his story about this most interesting Eastern Canadian Tradition!

(26:43) Matt Esteves of Raw Charge joins the show to talk about the Lightning and their recent schedule of games, including the instances in the loss to Minnesota last week at home. Steven Stamkos doesn’t like the Playoff structure in the NHL, but Bryan disagrees. Hear the discussion about that, and the importance of the Lightning upcoming schedule, including 3 games against the defending Stanley Cup Champions.

(42:36) We’ll talk about Geno Malkin’s 1000’th point, Ovi’s 1200’th point…and where Sidney Crosby fits into the equation between those 2 players. Plus, the UCF Knights Club Hockey Team has made it to the National ACHA DIII Tournament in Texas – we talk to Assistant Coach Anthony Mariani about the team, their early season hurdles and the outlook for Florida Collegiate Hockey! Then, we make the mistake of letting Floor Nick bring up his stats, including why “the Lightning ain’t that fire”.