Reposted by Benjamin WendorfBenjamin Wendorf @benjaminwendorf.bsky.social · 13/01/2025While I'm on the subject, Matt LaFleur is a slightly below-average play caller. And LaFleur and Love are intractable for at least another couple, futile years. 001
Reposted by Benjamin WendorfBenjamin Wendorf @benjaminwendorf.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Unfortunately for Packer fans it's going to take a couple years for it to play out, but Jordan Love is a slightly below-average quarterback that can't consistently make the throws that will take them anywhere. 101
Reposted by Benjamin WendorfStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Honestly, the audacity of saying this while trying to purge the country of Haitians based on a lie he knowingly told is demonic. 723058579
Benjamin Wendorf @benjaminwendorf.bsky.social · 02/09/2026If you were to look cards of goons from '90 to '94 a majority of them, non-ironically, wielded gold Hull or silver Gretzky aluminums. (Although it's possibly because the manufacturer gave both guys a dozen of them for free & they gifted them bc each one of those sticks would survive nuclear winter). 000
Benjamin Wendorf @benjaminwendorf.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I wish I could impart the thinking on the young ones why we did hockey aluminum sticks for awhile in the 80s/90s. For those of us with hard shots (not me), wood sticks seemed too whippy and broke too easily. For those of us with weak shots (i.e. me), we now had a stick that would last a lifetime! 100
Benjamin Wendorf @benjaminwendorf.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Reader comprehension might come into play for the responses here. Do I think Canada is more unfriendly because of the actions of the current U.S. President? Yes. But I don't think friendly/unfriendly neatly fits the ally/enemy spectrum. France, for example, has almost always been an unfriendly ally. 000
Benjamin Wendorf @benjaminwendorf.bsky.social · 27/08/2026We need a Hockey Hall of Fame for pep talks. I remember a coach telling us we should score more goals than our opponent to win, & I thought that was pretty good, but Boom Boom is showing us what really separates the men from the boys...in being a man who probably should be separated from boys. 000
Benjamin Wendorf @benjaminwendorf.bsky.social · 27/08/2026"Boom Boom Geoffrion stood naked in a large dark room deep within the bowels of the Drummondville Civic Centre and waved a dirty sock at his visitors. 'I do not experiment,' shouted the one-time Montreal Canadiens' star. 'We want to win. I don't take exhibition games lightly.'" THN, 6 Oct 72. 000
Benjamin Wendorf @benjaminwendorf.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Man, I'm just really sad. Dolly sure made a person feel special, even if she never met them. I'll be listening to "My Tennessee Mountain Home," and imagining she's probably somewhere just like that now. 000
Reposted by Benjamin WendorfAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 20/08/2026universities are not run by leftist profs they are run by corporate profiteer board members siphoning public $$ to tech partnerships "An Inside Higher Ed analysis of SEC filings turned up dozens of presidents paid handsomely for sitting on corporate boards." www.insidehighered.com/news/governa... 221977664
Benjamin Wendorf @benjaminwendorf.bsky.social · 20/08/2026We need to understand, and make common parlance, that one party acts like a teen with a credit card. 011
Benjamin Wendorf @benjaminwendorf.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Fun little discovery digging in the THN archives: supposedly in the 1960s Gordie Howe and Bobby Hull were averaging 30 to 40 minutes a game. 000
Reposted by Benjamin WendorfThe Drift @thedriftmag.com · 19/08/2026Andrew Baker was also a “token black professor” at Bates College. But his perspective on the events Tyler Austin Harper recounts in his Atlantic cover story is very different. Read Baker’s side of the story online today. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/racism-and...newsletter.thedriftmag.comRacism and labor at Bates: the other side of the storyAndrew Baker responds to Tyler Austin Harper 10601264
Reposted by Benjamin WendorfWabi Sabi For Costco Frankenstein Heads @wabisabi4robots.bsky.social · 16/08/2026 2047051309
Reposted by Benjamin WendorfSoraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 15/08/2026perhaps they are college dropouts not b/c they're so exceptionally brilliant, but b/c they were too arrogant to appreciate the invaluable social intangibles and friction college would have provided had they stayed it's what feeds their bunker builds: their gross ineptitude at participatory humanity 1236088
Reposted by Benjamin WendorfGregory Balloch @gregballoch.bsky.social · 04/08/2026It’s because one guy (DaveART) has aggressively pursued NHL goalies and controls a huge chunk of the market now. He rushes through most of the designs, or passes them off to “secondary artists” (Translation: Likely uses AI). 111
Benjamin Wendorf @benjaminwendorf.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Mid to late 1990s was the sweet spot, where the artists were creative but still understood the average distance of their audience. Even marginal goalies had decent looks, like Fiset's ice blocks and pharaoh masks, or Billington's Sens design. 110
Benjamin Wendorf @benjaminwendorf.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Hot take: NHL goalie mask design these days is really bad. Way too busy with elements that only pop from 5 feet away...any further and it just looks like texture. The last consistently cool-design goalie was Jonas Hiller. Sure, there have been a few good one-offs, but the majority need a makeover. 130
Reposted by Benjamin WendorfDaniel Wagner @passittobulis.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Read Part One of the story here: passittobulis.substack.com/p/finding-do...passittobulis.substack.comFinding Doris: A (family) history of women’s hockey in Vancouver — Part 1Doris Parkes and the early years of women's hockey. 1275
Benjamin Wendorf @benjaminwendorf.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Here's the thing about old (80+) Congresspeople: is it b/c it's an easy job, given all their aides and assistants? Maybe we need to scrutinize their compensation the way they scrutinize everyone else's. Or maybe it's very hard? In which case why are you serving well beyond typical retirement age? 020
Benjamin Wendorf @benjaminwendorf.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Here's the thing about NHL Edge stats: they basically did what we determined was not the right thing to do, which was just record everything & report it w/o establishing the data's usefulness. Sure, we have tons of data (made hard to access, by the way), but it's compiling for the sake of compiling. 100
Benjamin Wendorf @benjaminwendorf.bsky.social · 27/07/2026I mean, one alternative to making the pucks tinier (My Idea) is to make players bigger. 000
Reposted by Benjamin WendorfGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/07/2026Lemme tell you about the angel of history being blown backwards into the future: The shackles these people have been put in are Hiatt brand, same company founded in 1780 to mass produce shackles for slaver ships. 1841921801
Benjamin Wendorf @benjaminwendorf.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Spain dominated that game. And essentially won it 3-0. So yeah, that turned out how it should. Forget Messi, turn the page and watch Yamal. 000
Benjamin Wendorf @benjaminwendorf.bsky.social · 18/07/2026When's the last time you thought about P.O.D.? 15 years, for me (at least). 100
Benjamin Wendorf @benjaminwendorf.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Co-sign. Darryl is a gem. And there are probably too many smart teams out there for him to be a free agent for very long. 000
Reposted by Benjamin WendorfDr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Believe Women is an epistemological stance. It doesn't mean you assume that every single woman is telling the truth and women never lie. It means you understand that in the system that we exist in, there's much more risk and pain for women coming forward about abuse than there is anything to gain. 21819634
Benjamin Wendorf @benjaminwendorf.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Lukaku did, in fact, push around Alexi's meaty American boys. 010
Benjamin Wendorf @benjaminwendorf.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Remember when Alexi Lalas was like, to Zlatan and Henry, "Huh huh, I'd like to see Lukaku push around my meaty American boy defenders" then Tim Ream got dominated by Belgian River Phoenix? 032
Benjamin Wendorf @benjaminwendorf.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Conversely, I do like to root for these young, small nations. 000
Benjamin Wendorf @benjaminwendorf.bsky.social · 04/07/2026The game feed on Fox was perfect for Cabral's strike, you literally could look right down the barrel where it was going. 000
Benjamin Wendorf @benjaminwendorf.bsky.social · 04/07/2026That strike was astonishing. Kick of the century. 000
Benjamin Wendorf @benjaminwendorf.bsky.social · 02/07/2026The thing that is baffling to me is that not even the teams he played for could agree that he is worth giving top 4 minutes. That's across 8 NHL teams, or a quarter of the league. He is 34 and very likely going to get 1,000 games in a league that still accepts "because, big" for a scouting report. 112
Reposted by Benjamin WendorfMicah McCurdy @hockeyviz.com · 02/07/2026Erik Gudbranson (1x1.75m deal with Columbus) is, technically, an NHL player for another season. He is ferociously, woefully bad at the sport that I love. Jesus wept. 1813220
Benjamin Wendorf @benjaminwendorf.bsky.social · 02/07/2026The year is 2035. It is too hot to go outside. Everyone likes the NHL now because it's the one place where humans get to be in the same room as ice. To increase their appeal, all NHL teams have cold-themed names. Olli Maatta still fetches a 4th rounder, this time from the Buffalo Sa-brrrrs. 010
Benjamin Wendorf @benjaminwendorf.bsky.social · 02/07/2026The ultimate question is whether FIFA can structure a best-on-best tournament where the U.S. looks like anything more than a band of misfit toys. Beating a nation that didn't exist 40 years ago and has 1/100th your population should be a given. 100
Benjamin Wendorf @benjaminwendorf.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Dang, NHL.com using quite the words to describe the state of Markstrom's play recently. 000
Reposted by Benjamin WendorfDave Draeger @davedraeger.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Weird how this never applies to the Second Amendment. 6843241098
Benjamin Wendorf @benjaminwendorf.bsky.social · 30/06/2026You know what, I'm going to ask the questions that other people are too afraid to ask. Do you even watch the games, @erictulsky.bsky.social ? 010
Benjamin Wendorf @benjaminwendorf.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Yes, what the people said in the late 90s as Eminem started his career was, "He's a white guy, but so was Vanilla Ice, so he deserves a chance." I've often said this. My source? Oh, yes...it says here: Vanilla Ice. 000
Reposted by Benjamin WendorfKing Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Here's a good example of what @jamellebouie.net is talking about. 0307
Reposted by Benjamin Wendorfjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/06/2026currently reading a whole bunch of petitions and editorials from black americans of the revolutionary era and it is so striking (and frankly inspiring) to see how the ink wasn't even dry on the declaration before black americans were demanding that the patriots live up to their stated ideals 10396611284
Benjamin Wendorf @benjaminwendorf.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Ok, I'll bite: yes, it's similar. Same, even. 020
Benjamin Wendorf @benjaminwendorf.bsky.social · 24/06/2026One of the things I kept finding with Kyrou was how efficient he was in his minutes. As in one of the most efficient in 5v5 production as we've seen league-wide in recent years. A lot of Ehlers vibes, both in production and with a team not fully committing to him. To Tim Barnes, I say:static.klipy.comMay You Live To Be A Thousand Years Old, SirAlt: Guy selling luggage says to Joe Banks in Joe Versus the Volcano: "May You Live To Be A Thousand Years Old, Sir" GIF 010
Benjamin Wendorf @benjaminwendorf.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Davidson not exactly exuding confidence in all those defensemen they've picked these last few years. And betting the boat on Byram. They might kill Bedard's career dead even before Bowman kills McDavid's. 010
Benjamin Wendorf @benjaminwendorf.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Kyrou going for McMichael, bleh prospect, and mid 1st rounder, still good. Esp. because McMichael turned into a pumpkin and there's not a lot to suggest he isn't, in fact, a pumpkin. 000
Benjamin Wendorf @benjaminwendorf.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Oof, that's a nice piece of work. He and Thomas both signed for long team-friendly deals, iirc. Kyrou has been a low-key great middle 6er for nearly a half-decade now. 000
