Benjamin Wendorf @benjaminwendorf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026So muscular even our names contain the three core elements of hard males: wood, ham, and sons. 050
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
Benjamin Wendorf @benjaminwendorf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I think it's kinda wild to see neither the Avs nor Wings have the other in their top 3. I mean, I get it, but that rivalry was all over the place...checks watch...bah gawd, 20 years ago 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. 723055579
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 mean, somebody out there has to buy Christian sticks 000
Benjamin Wendorf @benjaminwendorf.bsky.social · 02/09/2026However, the drawbacks were obvious: 1) they were heavy, which goons found to be helpful in adding clout to their hacking, 2) they were prohibitively stiff; many goals were probably lost in that era, 3) broken wooden sticks make great lumber. I blame Gretzky and Hull, tbh. 100
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
Benjamin Wendorf @benjaminwendorf.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Related, but I wonder if the big tech company frustration is part of a larger all-kinds-of-company frustration. 010
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... 221978664
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 10600264
Reposted by Benjamin WendorfWabi Sabi For Costco Frankenstein Heads @wabisabi4robots.bsky.social · 16/08/2026 2047041310
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
Benjamin Wendorf @benjaminwendorf.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Absolutely, totally agree. It's a shame, bc among the major sports hockey is the one where there's a ready "canvas" to work with. We've certainly seen it w/goalie leg pads & gloves. I'm sure eventually there'll be a goalie that will influence a change, just like Plante, Cheevers, Dave Dryden, etc. 000
Benjamin Wendorf @benjaminwendorf.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Explains a lot. They certainly follow a certain era of design that "peaked" with Ed Hardy shirts. 100
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 · 01/08/2026This is all to say: I'm thinking about writing again. Stay tuned. 000
Benjamin Wendorf @benjaminwendorf.bsky.social · 01/08/2026That said, Micah (hockeyviz.com) & the Younggrens (evolving-hockey.com) do heavy lifting to provide robust & up-to-date stats...leaves them little time/energy to write. Garrett's been doing the thing w the Jets, too (thefivehohl.substack.com). But teams scooped up ppl, & the rest paywalled mostly. 100
Benjamin Wendorf @benjaminwendorf.bsky.social · 01/08/2026The cynic in me says it was a combination of the Hockey Men wanting to get ahead of this thing, & the ability of some hucksters to massage said hockey men w/rudimentary figures & eye-catching data viz. It sucks some of the air out of stats writing & created a bit of a stats desert on the web lately. 100
Benjamin Wendorf @benjaminwendorf.bsky.social · 01/08/2026So now we have this continued wide gulf between the NHL public and stats, and it lies somewhere near "Jason Robertson is one of the slowest forwards...so what?" "Tyler Kleven has one of the hardest slapshots...so what?" "Neal Pionk skated 6.6 miles in a 2025 playoff game...so what?" 100
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. 1841901800
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 · 18/07/2026Exactly the song that entered my mind! And for no good reason, I don't even like the song all that much. 100
Benjamin Wendorf @benjaminwendorf.bsky.social · 18/07/2026And while you're at it...seize their assets in your country. Anybody threatening your country, it should go without even saying, is a credible threat. 100
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 · 11/07/2026Thinking of you, Melissa, sending good vibes. 000
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. 21818633
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
