Hat trick! Craig Martin ends Jacksonville Icemen season on winning note
Craig Martin finished the Jacksonville Icemen's ECHL hockey season in style, netting a hat trick to beat the Orlando Solar Bears Sunday.
Turning point : T. J. Friedmann scored the go-ahead goal at 18:48 of the final period and Craig Martincompleted a hat trick seconds later, ending the Jacksonville Icemen's ECHL season on a note ofcelebration with a 7-5 win over the Orlando Solar Bears on April 19 inside VyStar Veterans MemorialArena.
Three stars: 1. Martin, Jacksonville (three goals). 2.
Friedmann, Jacksonville (one goal). 3. Jed Pietila, Jacksonville (one goal, one assist).
Penalty box: In a rarity, the teams combined for only one minor penalty but three double minors. Around the rink: Martin's hat trick was the first for the Icemen since Olivier Nadeau on March 6, 2025 against the Allen Americans. … He joins Emerson Clark, Cody Fowlie, Cam Maclise, Pierre-Luc Mercier, Wacey Rabbit, Bobby Lynch, Abbott Girduckis, Vladislav Mikhalchuk, Ara Nazarian, Derek Lodermeier, Matheson Iacopelli, Brendan Harris and Chris Grando as hat-trick scorers in Icemen history.