Porous Five Hole

I’ve got an old hat on. If Jobst gets one more, I’m leaving on the ice in Syracuse.

If a sellout is 6600, I bet they’ve got 5,200. A ton of Amerks fans are here though…they’ve got the Lee-Vi and Let’s Go Amerks chants going.

Behind enemy lines. Let’s gooooooooo!

For Larry Brooks to be hearing chatter that the Tampa beat is not hearing makes me think he made it up 🤷‍♂️

Cozens shortie! He was flying to make that a two on one. Nice finish. Good for him. Eff the leafs 😜

Brandon was a lot more relaxed today. My take on the WGR convo is that everyone was correct in the conversation. Beane is correct that the Bills have a unicorn QB who drives the offense to 30 pt games, the D needed improvement, and there’s only one ball. Only so much cap dollars to go around and Josh throws people open anyway. If the radio guys were insinuating that Beane doesn’t value the position, that is wrong to me. They traded a first for Diggs and paid him, they used their top pick on WR last year, traded for Cooper, traded for Kelvin Benjamin once upon a time. But at the same time, the radio guys are correct that the Bills WR room is weaker than most. With that said, I think the Bills have enough at the position given the 2025 draft was weak at the position.

https://pickinsplinters.com/2025/04/29/levis-new-amerks-playoff-mask-a-moose-tacos-teammates-and-more/ "Sometimes I do a theme, like the helmet I used this year was mostly a Gladiator theme and I have two that are Star Wars themed. This one I decided to keep Rochester-themed..."

During today's media availability, head coach Michael Leone provided an update on defenseman Vsevolod Komarov. "He is doing better but in concussion protocol and will miss some time." The Amerks recalled forward Olivier Nadeau along with defensemen Peter Tischke and Noah Laaouan from the Jacksonville. Laaouan is unavailable due to injury.

You really have to give the Panthers their flowers. They were a superior team tonight. Their PK was huge (great all series). They have championship pedigree and it is impressive.

Levi t-shirt 👀

So they’re not a fast team because they don’t have one of the 20 fastest forwards or defensemen in the entire league? BTW, Josh Norris is on the list 👀

He may have gotten the call if the series was going to be a track meet, but the Amerks liked Komorov’s size against the Crunch (plus he’s still a legitimate Sabres prospect). Now that he’s likely in the protocol (plus no word how close Prow is to returning), I believe he will be the next man up.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/44901919/bills-gm-gets-testy-radio-hosts-nfl-draft-criticism It has made itself as a top headline on espn.com

LOL Brandon Beane was VERY spicy. And he had a hard time getting past it.

https://pickinsplinters.com/2025/04/27/win-one-for-komarov-was-amerks-rallying-cry-after-scary-injury/ Write up from our beat writer

The family had a blast. It was a weird game….it took three hours and ended in regulation. The KO from the fight, two pucks on the ice at one time at one point, a Cuse fan got booted by security in front of me, a lady took a puck to the face that stopped the game, etc. Let’s sweep the gross Crunch. I’ll be driving to Cuse for game three on Thursday.

The Amerks won, but they seemed tentative for the first period and a half. Good win. Time to assert themselves in game two. Kulich will be a weapon on Sunday.

Agree I remember those days where no one went to the first round. It just felt like tix were in greater demand the last couple years. Glad to be heading to the barn shortly!

A lot of seats available tonight. Tix were hard to come by last year, so hopefully a large walk up crowd tonight. I’ll be in 123 and headed to Vesper shortly to pregame.

What’s a bit ironic is this guy from the Isles is available because they’re eliminating their radio broadcast.

Chris Drury must have pretended to REALLY like Dolan’s blues album.

Old “friend” Evander Kane draws into his spot. I like him a lot less than Skinner.

https://www.nhl.com/rangers/news/chris-drury-agrees-to-multi-year-contract-extension Did not see this one coming…

Remember when answering the door was fun? Pepperidge Farm Remembers

Daddy, chill 😂