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On this episode of Bear Tracks, presented by Pink Whitney by New Amsterdam Vodka, we're joined by Chris Bradley, who joined the Solar Bears late in the 2015-16 season out of R.P.I. and returned to Orlando for his first and only full professional season in 2016-17. Chris discusses his upbringing in Western New York, his time in Youngstown in the USHL, representing Team USA on the international stage, his time as the big man on campus in Troy, New York, and his current day-to-day in the medical sales industry and his life as a father of two young girls.

On the latest episode of Bear Tracks, presented by Pink Whitney by New Amsterdam Vodka, we catch up with former Solar Bears forward Nicklas Lindberg, who joined Orlando during the 2015-16 campaign for what would be the final season of his playing career. He discusses growing up in Sweden and making his transition to North America in the mid-2000s, where he got his start in the ECHL for the Pensacola Ice Pilots, his friendships along the way with several veteran minor league players who also suited up for the Solar Bears and his current work as a skills development coach and living in Florida as a happily married father of two.

On this episode of Bear Tracks, presented by Pink Whitney by New Amsterdam Vodka, we're joined by former Solar Bears forward Alex Gacek, who led the team in scoring during his three-month tenure with the club as a rookie during the 2016-17 season. The New Englander talks about his upbringing, including his lobster-fishing side hustle as youngster, playing for the "Brotherhood" at Miami University, realizing his dream of suiting up for his hometown Boston Bruins in an NHL preseason game and his current role as an assistant coach at Wentworth Institute of Technology.