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If you're looking to get yoru foot into the door of professional ice hockey, opportunity may lie with the Orlando Solar Bears after they invited the public to request a tryout.

With an active win-streak of 27 games, the Norfolk Admirals run is unprecedented in hockey and comparable to other streaks in other sport leagues.

The ECHL has announced that it is expanding to Orlando... And so the Solar Bears come out of a 10 year hibernation.

Jeffrey Vinik's first hiring and how it happened tells us things about the owner. Lets look back at other Lightning owners and what their first hires told us.