Orlando left out in cold

The Orlando Solar Bears’ attempt at a second consecutive victory against the Alaska Aces late Friday night missed its mark.

Ben Lake’s goal with 23 seconds left in the second period broke a 2-all tie and helped the Aces (20-10-1-4, 45 points) defeat the Solar Bears (19-13-4-2, 44 points) 4-2 in an ECHL game in Anchorage. The game drew an announced crowd of 3,279 to Sullivan Arena.

The Solar Bears defeated the Aces 6-2 on Wednesday night in the first meeting ever between the teams.

In their second game, the Solar Bears scored twice in the second period. Darik Angeli tied the score at 1 at 9:05 of the period. After Stephen Perfetto’s second goal of the game for Alaska, Orlando’s Chris Bradley found the net with 4:41 to go in the period.

Peter Sivak’s empty-net goal with 45 seconds to go in the third period completed the scoring.

Solar Bears goalie Kasimir Kaskisuo made 36 saves. Orlando was outshot 40-31 and was denied on all three of its power-play opportunities.

The teams concluded their three-game series Saturday night.

The Solar Bears announced two trades. Orlando received goalie Jay Williams from the Atlanta Gladiators for forward Connor Gaarder and forward Milos Bubela from the Wheeling Nailers for future considerations. Williams was in the Solar Bears’ training camp.