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Beauty of USA Debuts in Allentown, Offering Wholesale-Price Hair Essentials Without the Bulk Minimums
Beauty of USA Debuts in Allentown, Offering Wholesale-Price Hair Essentials Without the Bulk Minimums

Globe and Mail

time26-05-2025

  • Business
  • Globe and Mail

Beauty of USA Debuts in Allentown, Offering Wholesale-Price Hair Essentials Without the Bulk Minimums

Beauty of USA is a one-stop beauty destination that pairs an expansive product selection, same-day local delivery, and an in-house braiding salon under one roof. Beauty of USA has opened its doors at 917 Hamilton Street, introducing a fresh retail concept that combines the reach of a full-scale beauty supply warehouse with the convenience of neighborhood shopping. The store, and its accompanying e-commerce platform, delivers thousands of professional-grade hair products at wholesale prices, yet eliminates traditional bulk-purchase requirements, making high-quality beauty essentials accessible to everyone from first-time braiders to seasoned stylists. Positioned in the heart of downtown Allentown, Beauty of USA stocks an extensive assortment that spans braiding and crochet hair, human-hair weaves, lace-front and ready-to-wear wigs, specialized hair-care lines, styling tools, body products, cosmetics and accessories, all curated to meet the fast-changing demands of multicultural hair trends. Competitive everyday pricing is further supported by rotating 'New Arrivals' and 'Deals' sections, allowing shoppers to discover the latest textures, colors and cap constructions as soon as they drop. 'Our goal is simple: elevate the beauty shopping experience while protecting our customers' budgets,' said a Beauty of USA spokesperson. 'By sourcing directly and pricing at wholesale levels, without forcing bulk commitments, we give professionals and everyday consumers equal access to premium products that empower creativity and self-expression.' A Salon Experience Inside a Supply Store Beyond aisles of retail offerings, visitors will find BOUSA Braiding Salon, a full-service studio located at the back of the store. Staffed by experienced braiders and extension specialists, the salon provides protective styles, custom installs, and wig services using products available on the sales floor. Walk-ins are welcomed, and clients may select hair from the shelves moments before their appointment, ensuring color and texture match perfectly. The dual model creates a seamless loop: shoppers who are uncertain about DIY installation can schedule professional service on the spot, while salon patrons who fall in love with a style can immediately purchase maintenance items before heading home. E-Commerce, Same-Day Delivery and Flexible Fulfillment Recognizing the growing demand for on-demand beauty, Beauty of USA has rolled out multiple fulfillment options. Same-Day Local Delivery across the Lehigh Valley for orders placed before the afternoon cut-off. Ideal for stylists facing last-minute client requests. Store Pickup for customers who prefer to browse online and collect in person, bypassing shipping fees. Nationwide Shipping that extends the store's competitive pricing and curated catalog to customers throughout the continental United States. All inventory displayed online reflects real-time stock in the Allentown warehouse, reducing back-order frustrations and ensuring swift dispatch. A Community-Focused Mission Beauty of USA aims to serve more than just retail needs. The company plans to partner with local cosmetology schools and independent stylists for educational demos, product knowledge sessions, and small-business workshops designed to help entrepreneurs grow their clientele without overspending on supplies. Loyalty programs and e-mail exclusives will reward repeat customers with early access to limited-edition drops and flash sales. To learn more and get started, visit Address of Bousa Braiding Salon: 917 Hamilton Street, Allentown, PA 18101. About Beauty of USA Beauty of USA is a privately owned beauty supply retailer headquartered in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Founded on the belief that professional-quality hair products should be affordable and readily available, the company bridges the gap between wholesale distributors and neighborhood beauty stores. With a comprehensive product range, an in-house braiding salon and multiple fulfillment options, including same-day delivery, Beauty of USA elevates the beauty routine for consumers and professionals alike.

Scouting Andrew Painter, George Lombard Jr., The Password, and more MLB prospect notes
Scouting Andrew Painter, George Lombard Jr., The Password, and more MLB prospect notes

New York Times

time23-05-2025

  • Sport
  • New York Times

Scouting Andrew Painter, George Lombard Jr., The Password, and more MLB prospect notes

Mick Abel's remarkable MLB debut may have just further whetted Phillies fans' appetites for the arrival of their top pitching prospect, right-hander Andrew Painter, who is now pitching for Triple-A Lehigh Valley. I caught Painter on Wednesday in his latest start for the IronPigs. Painter, who ranked No. 12 on my preseason top 100 prospect list, went 71 pitches, four-plus innings, on a very cold and damp night in Allentown, Penn., with the temperature at 50 degrees at first pitch. He was 94-98 throughout the outing and threw a ton of sliders — Statcast calls it a cutter, but Painter told our Matt Gelb this spring that he was ditching that pitch — in what I assume was a plan to have him work on the slider so it'll be ready for major-league hitters. I don't think it's there yet; it's hard, mostly 90-91 and topping out at 93, but the break isn't that tight and he missed consistently with it to his glove side. It runs more than it breaks, which I suppose also might indicate that it's a cutter, and hitters whiffed on the fastball slightly more often than they did on the slider in this game. The curveball was hilarious, to use the technical term, although he only threw a handful, and he didn't throw a single changeup. Advertisement His delivery is still fantastic — how often do you hear me say that about any pitcher? — and he can throw the fastball for strikes, and maybe every other pitch but the slider right now. Bearing in mind that this had to be a miserable night to grip and spin the ball, since it never stopped drizzling while Painter was in the game, I don't think he's ready to step into a big-league rotation right now. The slider is a work in progress, clearly, and I was disappointed not to see the changeup at all. He went to the slider in changeup counts against lefties the entire night, with mixed results; Buffalo (Toronto affiliate) hitters were so geared up for the fastball they might have spun themselves into the ground if he'd flipped a 45 changeup away to them. The fastball plays, and the curveball is a widowmaker. I'm not convinced he needs a slider, but if the plan is to get him to develop one, I would give him some more turns in the Lehigh Valley rotation and wait for consistently warmer weather, too. In the same game, Phillies outfield prospect Justin Crawford (No. 41 on the top 100) did triple on a fly ball to deep center, but he's still generating way too many ground balls for a guy with his strength and potential for power, which I think is because he starts his hands so high. The speed and defense are still there, and he led off the bottom of the first with a great at-bat that, unfortunately, ended in a ground ball. Last Saturday night, I headed to Somerset to see the Double-A affiliates for the Red Sox (Portland Sea Dogs) and Yankees (Somerset Patriots) square off, which turned out to be one of Jhostynxon Garcia's last games at that level before a promotion to Triple A. Known as 'The Password,' Garcia (Red Sox No. 8 prospect) swings very hard and he is very strong, destroying a hanging cutter from Patriots right-hander Trent Sellers for a home run the other way. It was an awful pitch, but Garcia at least did what you're supposed to do with those, and the power he showed was impressive. Advertisement He's shown more zone awareness this year in his return to Double A, going from a 4.8 percent walk rate in a month there last year to 13 percent in a month there this year before his promotion. I saw him chase some fastballs above the zone, which does seem to be a moderate concern based on his data from this season. He can mash, though; even if the walk-rate boost turns out to be a mirage, this is real power, and he seems like at worst he'll be a low-OBP slugger, probably in right field. George Lombard, Jr., the Yankees' first-round pick in 2023, was the primary reason I made the trip, since the team so rudely promoted him the day before he was scheduled to come play a series in my backyard. (Not literally. This isn't Iowa.) Lombard ranked 98 on the preseason top-100 list. He has a great swing, balanced through contact, with some loft in his finish for line-drive power. He hasn't gotten off to a great start in Double A, hitting .195/.352/.195 through Wednesday night, and from what I saw, it may be a matter of adjusting to pitchers messing with timing. The high walk rate is a function of good strike-zone judgment, yet he'll swing the bat — I got 12 swings from him on the night, so he's up there to hit, not take. He was just slightly off on some pitches he'll probably square up later this year. Pitchers attacked him with sliders and cutters, likely better quality versions of those pitches than what he was seeing in High A, and it'll probably take him some time to adjust, maybe the rest of the summer. He played an easy shortstop, although he drops down to throw, putting some two-seam action on throws to first that is going to make them harder to receive. Catcher Rafael Flores (Yankees No. 13 prospect) was an undrafted free agent when Yankees scout Dave Keith signed him in the summer of 2022. He's going to get to the majors as a backup catcher and maybe a platoon bat off the bench, as he has at least above-average power and can whack a fastball. He's been chasing pitches out of the zone more this year, although that wasn't an issue on Saturday, as he went 3-for-5 with a no-doubt homer and only chased one pitch of the 16 he saw on the night. Advertisement It's an easy swing and he's strong enough to pull the ball out to left consistently enough that if he were a better defender, I'd say he was going to be an everyday catcher. He's just OK behind the plate, though, and may not have the arm to be a primary backstop. There's a major-league role for him somewhere. Shortstop Mikey Romero (Red Sox No. 19 prospect) was Boston's first pick in the 2022 draft, going at pick No. 24, 55 spots ahead of current No. 1 prospect Roman Anthony. Unlike Anthony, Romero has had a lot of adversity in pro ball, as a serious back injury ruined his 2023 season and his performance last year still wasn't up to expectations. There's some good news here, as he's way more filled out now and I think the power he flashed last year (16 homers in 78 games) might be real, or at least more than I thought it was. He's still too aggressive at the plate, and he had some bad hacks at changeups, whiffing at least twice on them, although with two strikes he stayed back better and lined one to left, which says there might be some more pitch recognition in there than the raw data indicate. He played third base in this game and looked much better suited to that position than shortstop. He's only 21 and would be in this draft had he gone to college. There's still time for him to tighten up the approach and find a path to the big leagues, even if it's just as a utility infielder who has some left-handed pop. Boston acquired right-hander Dave Sandlin (Red Sox No. 9 prospect) in the trade that sent reliever John Schreiber to Kansas City in February 2024, a deal I loved at the time for Boston, as Sandlin was among the Royals' top 10 prospects and looked like a potential back-end starter. The Red Sox have turned him into a slider- and cutter-heavy guy who seems destined for the bullpen at this point, even though he has a decent fastball. It's a four-seamer, mostly 94-95, with a little ride, and he did get misses on it up in the zone, with a little deception from a huge torso turn in his delivery so that the ball appears late. For some reason, though, he's deprecated the fastball in favor of a slider and a cutter: He went from throwing 58 percent fastballs (according to data from Synergy) in 2023, his last year in the Royals' system, but is at just 42 percent fastballs so far this year. The slider has some tilt to it and is almost slurvy, at 82-84, while the cutter was 85-88 and was maybe average if I'm feeling generous. He got just one whiff on the cutter by my count out of the nine he had in the game. Maybe the fastball isn't as effective as I think it is, but he has a 5.30 ERA since the trade, so it's fair to say the current pitching plan for Sandlin isn't working out. (Top photo of Painter: Miles Kennedy / Philadelphia Phillies)

National Democrats are flocking to Pennsylvania in an early offensive to reclaim the US House in 2026
National Democrats are flocking to Pennsylvania in an early offensive to reclaim the US House in 2026

Yahoo

time16-05-2025

  • Politics
  • Yahoo

National Democrats are flocking to Pennsylvania in an early offensive to reclaim the US House in 2026

PHILADELPHIA — U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna D-Calif., represents Silicon Valley, but this weekend, he'll rail against President Donald Trump and GOP-proposed cuts to health care from podiums in Allentown and Levittown, two battleground communities in a state critical to the 2026 midterms. For Khanna, a progressive lawmaker and an ally of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who views himself as one of the Democratic Party's next generation of leaders, it's a bit of a homecoming event. Khanna was raised in Bucks County, and his visit is expected to draw an audience that will include his former teachers and his parents, who still live there, as he aims to connect his Pennsylvania upbringing to threats he thinks Trump's agenda poses to working-class families. 'Bucks County gave me my chance in life,' said Khanna, who is catching the Phillies' Sunday matinee against the Pittsburgh Pirates before the political event in Bucks County later in the day. 'I had a good public education. I got student loans to go to school and get a college education. I had teachers and people who believed in me, and I feel like this Republican budget, by taking away funding for education, taking away student loans, taking away funding for Medicaid, is really depriving the next generation of the chances I had, and I wanted to go to my hometown, Bucks County, and say that.' Khanna's visit comes a week after U.S. Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., spoke in Bucks County, highlighting the importance of the region as Democrats lay the groundwork for the 2026 midterms. And earlier this month, U.S. Rep. Chris Deluzio, 40, a Democrat who represents Western Pennsylvania, held town halls with Sanders in Harrisburg and Bethlehem. As he continues to travel around the state, Deluzio has increasingly garnered speculation that he may be eyeing a Senate run in the next three or six years. The focus on the commonwealth illustrates the pivotal role Pennsylvania continues to play as Democrats look to reclaim the U.S. House in 2026 — and the White House two years after that. The state's battleground districts remain fertile ground for media attention and message-testing for the young Democrats rumored to be considering more ambitious races of their own. Gallego, 45, who was just elected to the Senate in November from a state Trump won, would not confirm or deny that he will run for president in 2028. 'Of course, I've thought about it,' he told reporters, adding that he has a third child on the way and a new Senate job to learn. Ahead of his stop in Bucks, Khanna, 48, said his focus right now is doing work to win back the House for Democrats and pressure vulnerable Republicans to vote against the GOP budget bill working its way through Congress. 'If you look at my travel, it's literally to red districts where we can either flip someone's vote or flip that district,' Khanna said. He added that he thinks voters want to see 'a new generation' of people leading the party, naming Gallego, Gov. Josh Shapiro, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg as some of the Democrats shaping 'the national conversation.' 'I don't know what I'm gonna do,' Khanna added. 'But I want my vision of economic patriotism — which is to say we have a vision of what the future economy is gonna look like — I want that to be central to the conversation and then we'll see what makes sense.' Bucks County has long been a coveted bellwether for the key swing state — voting for former President Joe Biden in 2020 and then flipping to Trump, narrowly, last year. Maureen O'Toole, a spokesperson for the National Republican Congressional Committee, called Khanna and Gallego 'extremists who champion far-left policies.' She said their support for Republican U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick's challenger, Bucks County Commissioner Bob Harvie, to represent Pennsylvania's 1st Congressional District would harm Harvie's chances. 'In other words, we can't wait to see which far-left extremist Bob Harvie wraps his arms around next,' O'Toole said. A slew of Democratic town halls nationwide have been aimed at calling out vulnerable Republicans for a lack of public events and support for unpopular policies, like Medicaid cuts in the GOP budget bill, which are proposed to help pay for Trump's tax cuts. A news release for Khanna's appearance says it comes 'as Republicans refuse to hold town halls' but does not explicitly name Fitzpatrick, a five-term Republican whose seat has been an elusive target for Democrats over the last decade. Khanna said he has worked well with Fitzpatrick on a term-limits bill in Congress and the two have discussed a trip to China amid the ongoing trade war. 'He's often the Republican that Democrats will say, 'OK, we need a Republican. Let's go to Brian.' He's cosponsored a number of bills,' Khanna said. 'I told him I was coming, and I told him I respect my relationship with him, and I'm really there to talk about why I believe this budget is bad and wrong for Bucks.' Deluzio, in an interview after his town halls with Sanders, said that as public frustration with some of Trump's policies rises, it's critical Democrats go on the offensive. 'People are mad at [Republicans], so I think it's an important moment that the public has something to say here, and that leaders are meeting them where they are,' he said. 'It's never a bad time to make the case, and these Republican elected officials should be feeling some pressure from their constituents.' The economy largely won Trump the 2024 election, and as it has sagged and sputtered in the first three months of his term, Democrats see it as the best issue to reclaim voters who drifted to Trump. Khanna's pitch is 'economic patriotism,' a concept he will also emphasize during a rally Saturday in the Lehigh Valley alongside people affected by the Mack Truck plant layoffs there. 'We need to have the technology, the robotics, the AI from my district, combined with the industrial know-how of people in Pennsylvania to finance modern steel, to finance biotechnology, to finance new industry,' he said. Democrats, Khanna said, need to show they have a vision for the economic future and contrast it with Trump's. 'We want advanced manufacturing. We want new technology jobs,' he said. 'And we have a 21st-century view of how to build America, not a 19th-century view.' Deluzio also pitched what he termed 'economic patriotism or economic populism' as he stumped with Sanders, a progressive political force whom swing-district Democrats might have avoided not too long ago. 'I think there is becoming more of a group of Democrats cutting across the old ideological split of progressive, moderate, whatever those labels may have been,' Deluzio said. 'Who are taking this strong economic fight to the people.' Gallego also focused on the economy in his remarks in Pennsylvania. 'This president has put us in a position, again — the richest country in the world, most modern economy in the world — with the most sophisticated trade in the world where now we have to go hunting to garage sales to find products because this president decided to arbitrarily start a trade war without any concept how to get F out of this,' he said. Khanna will speak to a crowd in Bucks that includes his former English and social studies teachers, family, and friends. The Council Rock High School and Holland Junior High graduate got his political start in 1991 via a ninth-grade assignment to write a newspaper op-ed about the U.S. war with Iraq over Kuwait. His take wove in reflections on his parents' emigration from India and his maternal grandfather, who was a leader in India's independence movement. Parts of it were published in The Inquirer. Khanna is one of six Indian American representatives in the House. He called Bucks — where he spent his adolescence playing street hockey and Little League, and perusing the Feasterville Shopping Center and area flea markets for baseball cards — the place that grounds his sense of country, even as he represents one of the nation's wealthiest districts. 'I've seen so much of the innovation and ingenuity, and represent a district with $14 trillion of wealth with Apple and Google, Intel, Yahoo, and Tesla,' he said. 'How can we make sure that we have modern economic prosperity across this country? I understand sort of people who were overlooked or dismissed or people who didn't have a chance. And how do we combine the chances that the country gave me with sort of the modern economic engine of prosperity?' --------- —Staff writer Katie Bernard contributed to this article.

Allentown's Cutler James rising up WWE ranks; will he be at WrestleMania?
Allentown's Cutler James rising up WWE ranks; will he be at WrestleMania?

Yahoo

time11-05-2025

  • Entertainment
  • Yahoo

Allentown's Cutler James rising up WWE ranks; will he be at WrestleMania?

The next time you tune into to WWE programming, you may very will see Pennsylvania native Jonah C. Niesenbaum — who wrestles under the name Cutler James — securing the pin. With WrestleMania 41 happening this weekend, the question becomes: will Cutler James be booked for wrestling's ultimate spectacle? Who is Cutler James? WWE fans may be familiar with Cutler James through two different WWE programs: WWE LFG, where James wrestles under the tutelage of WWE hall of famer Bubby Ray Dudley, and on WWE NXT, where James is a member of the DarkState, alongside Dion Lennox and Saquon Shugars. Advertisement James, 25, was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and wrestled as a heavyweight at Duke University. Rising WWE star and Allentown native Jonah C. Niesenbaum, who wrestles under the name Cutler James. On WWE LFG, Cutler James is one of a group of wrestling hopefuls looking to either gain entry into the WWE or further their careers. Dudley joins other hall of famers Booker T, Mickie James and The Undertaker in forming teams and training the wrestling hopefuls. Will Cutler James be at WrestleMania 41? While Cutler James is on the rise within WWE, it appears he will not be booked for a WrestleMania 41 match. The annual wrestling spectacle usually involves championship bouts or matches that have built incredible heat over the past year. It is possible, however, that James and other WWE stars could invade WrestleMania. Advertisement In the meantime, you can catch Cutler James on WWE LFG, which airs on Sundays at 8 p.m. on A&E, and on WWE NXT, which airs on Tuesdays at 8 p.m. on the CW Network. Damon C. Williams is a Philadelphia-based journalist reporting on trending topics across the Mid-Atlantic Region. This article originally appeared on Erie Times-News: PA's Cutler James is a rising WWE star; will he make WrestleMania?

Flyers prospects Jett Luchanko, Alex Bump getting taste of playoff hockey with AHL's Phantoms
Flyers prospects Jett Luchanko, Alex Bump getting taste of playoff hockey with AHL's Phantoms

New York Times

time10-05-2025

  • Sport
  • New York Times

Flyers prospects Jett Luchanko, Alex Bump getting taste of playoff hockey with AHL's Phantoms

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Jett Luchanko didn't get an opportunity to play much high-pressure hockey this season. His junior team, the Guelph Storm, finished in last place in its conference, while Team Canada's stay in the World Junior Championships not only didn't last very long, but Luchanko only skated in a depth role — something that was frustrating for the Philadelphia Flyers brass. Advertisement But Luchanko's getting a taste of it now. The AHL Lehigh Valley Phantoms are in a dogfight with the Hershey Bears, the back-to-back defending Calder Cup champions, with a decisive Game 5 set for Sunday evening. Hershey took games 1 and 4, while the Phantoms captured games 2 and 3. 'It's great to be able to play some meaningful hockey,' Luchanko said Friday after the Phantoms lost 6-4 at PPL Arena, squandering a chance to close out the series and move on. 'Didn't get to do that at the end of my (junior) season. Everyone's been great here, really welcoming. It's been a fun time so far.' Friday, though, wasn't all that enjoyable. The Phantoms dug themselves a 3-0 first-period hole, and although they scored twice early in the second to get back into it, the Bears quickly regained control. After dispatching the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in the first round by winning the first two games of a three-game series, Luchanko and the Phantoms are finding out what's made Hershey so formidable the past two seasons. That is, the games are much tighter-checking than they were in the first round, while the increased physicality has been evident, particularly when the whistle-happy referees seemed extra vigilant in an attempt to keep Friday's game from getting out of hand. There were a pair of third-period fights and countless scrums after the whistle, as each team tried to set the tone for Sunday's series finale. Yes, this felt like a true playoff game in every sense. 'Yeah, it's tough — they're a really good team, tight-checking team,' Luchanko said. 'It's fun to be able to go up against them and kind of see what they bring.' Competing in this sort of environment is what Flyers general manager Daniel Brière and his staff hoped would materialize when they reassigned guys like Luchanko and fellow prospect Alex Bump to the Phantoms as soon as they could. Luchanko joined on March 27, while Bump arrived on April 15, just days after Western Michigan won an NCAA National Championship. More often than not, they've been on the same line, too. Luchanko and Bump connected for some highlight reel scores in the series against the Penguins, but playing the Bears has been a different story. Luchanko has one assist through four games in the series, while Bump is scoreless. Cap Scratch Fever#RallyTheValley | #LVvsHER | #LVPhantoms — Lehigh Valley Phantoms (@LVPhantoms) May 4, 2025 Still, the experience of going through it is valuable. 'Means the world for them, because that's playoff hockey,' Phantoms coach Ian Laperrière said. 'You don't have much room out there, you have to do the best that you can with what you have. I think it's only gold for those two kids for their careers down the road to experience that. The Wilkes-Barre series was a little bit more wide open. This one's tighter. That's real hockey.' Advertisement Luchanko, drafted 13th by the Flyers last year and surprisingly made the team out of camp, finished his OHL season with 56 points (21 goals, 35 assists) in 46 games. It was a decent total, considering that Guelph was among that league's weaker teams, and won't even turn 19 years old until Aug. 21. The message from the Flyers after he was reassigned back to his junior club in October — following four scoreless games with the Flyers, including one in which he made a good account of himself against Connor McDavid and the Edmonton Oilers — was, according to Luchanko, 'to work on all areas of my game and more offensively, as well. That was my goal when I went back: was try to hold onto pucks more, things like that. Trying to work on my shot, as well.' That's an ongoing process, and will likely continue to be. Luchanko is still looking for his first goal with the Phantoms in 15 total regular-season and playoff games headed into Sunday, to go with his eight assists. The 21-year-old Bump, on the other hand, already has three goals in eight Phantoms games, including two in the series against the Penguins, both set up by Luchanko. He's shown flashes, too, of what was his best attribute in college — getting pucks on net. Alex Bump to Jett Luchanko, and back to Alex Bump. Can you say F-U-T-U-R-E, #Flyers fans? @InsideAHLHockey — Tony Androckitis* (@TonyAndrock) April 24, 2025 In the Phantoms' 3-0 Game 1 loss to Hershey, Bump registered eight of Lehigh Valley's 26 shots on goal. Even if none of them got past the goaltender, that was exactly what Laperriere wanted to see from the 2022 fifth-round pick that has blossomed into one of the Flyers' top prospects. 'He's a shooter,' Laperrière said. 'He scored two goals against Wilkes-Barre, great shots. Against a team like Hershey, I want pucks on net because it creates some chaos. They're man-on-man, so you want to create chaos. It's no secret, put pucks on net — and he does that.' Advertisement Said Bump: 'Shot first mentality over here, so, yeah, that's usually what I'm thinking in the O-zone.' Of course, things move a little more quickly in the AHL than they did in college. Bump is realizing against the Bears. He had just one shot on goal in Game 4 and none in Game 3. 'College, I felt like I could hang onto the puck a little bit longer,' Bump said. 'I can't out there anymore, which I'm definitely going to have to adjust to, because I loved hanging onto it in college,' he said. 'Just quicker, faster thinking — make the plays quicker.' Both Luchanko and Bump will be players to watch when the Flyers reconvene for training camp in September. Among the forwards on the Phantoms' roster, the two of them may have the best chance of cracking the opening night lineup. In the meantime, they'll keep getting a taste of what pro hockey is like when the temperature is turned up. 'That's why I'm here, so I'm not really walking in blind next year, and I have some experience under my belt,' Bump said. Said Laperrière: 'They can't get frustrated. They have to battle through it. They will get hit because they're good players. They have to learn from it and get better.' (Photo of Jett Luchanko: Steph Chambers / Getty Images)

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