Controversy came about, however, when Ingram was assigned to the Solar Bears. He was a healthy scratch for three Crunch games with Eddie Pasquale and Martin Ouellette playing instead just prior to his demotion to the ECHL. This all came after Ingram was having a fine year and was named to the 2019 AHL All-Star Team. When Ouellette went down with a broken leg, Ingram was recalled to the Crunch and reportedly had a talk with General Manager Julien BriseBois. After that, he was sent back to Orlando without playing for the Crunch.

Many rumors have gone around about Ingram’s issues. The team and Ingram have never disclosed what the issues were other than stating they were keeping the matter internal. That’s standard operating procedure for this franchise. However, many of the rumors have centered around attitude and work ethic issues. We don’t know what really happened, but there was certainly a rift between Ingram and the organization and it appears that rift could not be healed.