{"id":775,"date":"2016-04-10T13:48:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T13:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/?p=775"},"modified":"2016-04-10T13:48:53","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T13:48:53","slug":"orlando-solar-bears-fan-wins-100k-on-one-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/2016\/04\/10\/orlando-solar-bears-fan-wins-100k-on-one-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Solar Bears Fan Wins $100K on One Shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Ice-hockey_puck.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-776\" src=\"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Ice-hockey_puck-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Ice-hockey_puck\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>An <a href=\"https:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\" target=\"_blank\">Orlando<\/a> Solar Bear fan won $100,000 by shooting a 115-foot goal on the first\u00a0try<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Solar Bears season-ticket holder Nick Giovanelli is $100,000 richer thanks to his victorious shot attempt at an ECHL game on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An exciting Thursday night for the fans of the Orlando Solar Bears on two levels because maybe inspired by the fan\u2019s shot, the Orlando Solar Bears (ECHL affiliate for the NHL\u2019s Toronto Maple Leafs) had their final home of the season and beat the\u00a0Florida Everblades 4 to 3 <!--more-->thanks to an\u00a0overtime goal by Patrick Watling,\u00a0keeping their playoff dreams\u00a0alive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the first intermission, the 8,226 in attendance witnessed a Florida man hit the jackpot after he made a shot from the far blue line and managed to nail the puck 115 feet into the tiny gap of the goal on his first attempt. Given that the puck is 3 inches and the slot in the cutout covering the goal is four inches, some people would say scoring from that distance would be practically impossible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Well not for Giovanelli from St. Cloud, Florida, chosen at random to take a shot at Amway Center during the ECHL team\u2019s regular-season finale. It was the first time the Solar Bears ever did the promotion and the luckiest fan and went home $100,000 richer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The team posted a video of the incredible shot on their Twitter page.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You can see the video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TGGNctwDwdY\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Orlando Solar Bear fan won $100,000 by shooting a 115-foot goal on the first\u00a0try Solar Bears season-ticket holder Nick Giovanelli is $100,000 richer thanks to his victorious shot attempt at an ECHL game on Thursday. An exciting Thursday night for the fans of the Orlando Solar Bears on two levels because maybe inspired by &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/2016\/04\/10\/orlando-solar-bears-fan-wins-100k-on-one-shot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Orlando Solar Bears Fan Wins $100K on One Shot&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}