Tribute Jordie Benn Retires

[Adam Michaels]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1833861197206028424

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[Tyson]

Solid and honest player. Undrafted but he still carved out a 600 game NHL career. Much respect.

 

[Le Tricolore]

He was definitely better than a lot of people here thought he was. Good depth guy who seemed well liked.

And that beard.

 

[Harry Kakalovich]

The beard

 

[WeThreeKings]

Never liked him on the team - was the prototypical bad MB defender.

Congrats on making the NHL and playing as long as he did though, a testament to the mans drive and determination.

 

[TRG]

Solid player

 

[Scintillating10]

Habs got a lot of mileage out of him.

 

[HabsWhiteKnightLOL]

better beard than Joe Thornton

 

[Halakitlikethat]

They protected him in the expansion draft!

 

[PhysicX]

Wish him well, but he reminds me of the Bergevin era. He should've tried and play one more season with a rival team. It would have been a net positive for us Habs.

 

[Le Barron de HF]

Funnily enough he was better than Pateryn after all. I guess sometimes we fall in love with our guys

 

[Gaud]

Never liked him on the team - was the prototypical bad MB defender.

Congrats on making the NHL and playing as long as he did though, a testament to the mans drive and determination.

Every team will want big bodies around the net to clear the space and let the goalie do his thing. MB built his D around that principle. The guys he picked were often slow AF, but I think MB bet on Carey's handling of the puck around his net to hide this to some extent - D didnt always have to skate back all the way to the back of the net and could expect a pass near the blue line instead. I find the guys he picked often looked bad when mobility was required, but otherwise seemed to do the job.

 

[The Real Timo]

Oh noes! I was still hoping we could sign him for 4 years with NMC.

Benn was good in the room. He was not a good dman. But I didn't mind him.

 

[JianYang]

Benn looked pretty capable on a 3rd pair. The first memory I have is when he played his brother, and he just started hammering stars players including Jamie non stop.

I guess he was riled up to play his brother but it was uncharacteristic of him and superbly entertaining.

Happy retirement.

 

[Leon Lucius Black]

Didn't have high expectations for him when we got him, but he had a couple very solid years for us and always gave it his all. Should've been a 3rd pairing guy, but ended up playing more minutes than he should've due to the shitty ass D Bergevin built.