Former Dallas Stars defenseman Jordie Benn retires | DLLS Stars Podcast

yeah so we just got the news today I saw and uh let's give a shout out to our friend uh stepen meserve who does the site 100 degree hockey a phenomenal coverage of the Texas Stars down in Cedar Park that Jordy Ben after a long time in professional hockey has announced his retirement he played last year and actually won a title a championship in Sweden I believe against lean bixel is that right was because bixel's team got to the final was that jordy's team that won it uh no cuz he was in the that Jordy was in the El fensin so he was in the okay yeah he was in the second second I was going to say I saw under that article that he' won a title in Sweden and I went wait a minute that can't be the same because I thought that would have come but more importantly Jordy came as an undrafted player who played he played a little bit the Allen Americans uh played a little bit for the one of the really cool names in the old e CHL was was the Victoria salmon Kings um and then made it with the Texas Stars and that really helped him grow into eventually getting a contract with the Dallas Stars and debuted in 2011 2012 spent a all the way through the 1617 season until he was traded to Montreal but think about that Dallas Stars Montreal Canadians Vancouver Canucks Winnipeg Jets Minnesota Wild and Toronto Maple Lea's over 600 NHL games I think I I don't know if this is accurate I read somewhere that it was like 17 seasons for 11 different teams all around professional which is wild and we remember him in Dallas obviously anytime a brother plays with another brother especially when it's a guy like Jamie Ben it's gonna be remembered but do you guys remember Jordie Ben's saucer pass to Jamie Ben Ottawa was it Ottawa short-handed oh man it wasn't a saucer it was a flipper it no but it was it was he meant it for it to be a flipper it was over head high and it just landed so perfectly and that's just ah there's nothing better and Jamie buried it and that's that's what I'll remember Jordie for that's a brother thing right there always you know persistence and resiliency I I think is when when I think of Jordy and you know he was a 56 at seven sometimes um did his job penalty killer physical um fight if he had to and I think that you know and again where he came from and how he got to the NHL and played just over 600 games in the NHL I believe he was a plus player by the time he ended up uh plus 19 okay for career you know and again that's not easy anyways but it's not easy when you're number five six sometimes seven defenseman because you're sometimes you're out there necessarily when teams and coaches don't want you out there and so um but I think the most important thing is Great Brothers you know when you saw those two off the ice um I think they were living together at that time when they were here right Sean I I think that I mean just you can tell they're just tight tight as can be yeah I mean Jordy has continued to live in Dallas since the trade um it's something where this has been his offseason home him and Jamie I think they both got their green cards around the same time and started Living living down here before they they got married even um and yeah I mean he's I I think one of the great things about the the Jordy Ben story is there's it's so it's going to be even more rare in the future if a guy works his way up from the ECHL to the AHL to the NHL we like just because opportunity is given out so much now on draft position right so so rare like sometimes if you don't get drafted working your way up so hard so the way Jordy kind of worked his way up and I think his last name almost works against him sometimes like people will sometimes like fan base will sometimes like oh he was Jim's brother like no his he earned every single step of his career and that's something that I think is a really important thing with with the Jordy Ben story where it's not about how he was Jaime's brother or anything like that that was nice that was a nice perk and that was a cool thing where they played together but his story is really one where it's a perseverance story it's taking opportunity out of nothing that like that's that's one where you Gotta Be You got to tip your cap to it so and quite the beard yeah that's the guy that compared I just sent it to John I'm not sure if he can get it pulled up that much time but from uh what's he from it's not from Rudolph from the other one right clation Christmas cartoons back in what's the name of that one yeah that is from rudol that's that's that's from Rudolph yeah the actual did you guys not have lives outside of this how do you know this you we're talking about 194 when you growing watch cartoons Christmas watch like pris watch like Christmas show with your family I watched like shows like cops and watching cops when you were like six years old oh I was living in it that explains so many things you know oh that's amazing yeah that was I want to say they did that in Buffalo Minnesota it was Minnesota so they put Jordy uh they put a picture of Y Cornelius on the jumbo EXL Energy Center and then Jordy next to him and it was I mean it's pretty close and it he even had a good sense of humor about it yeah it's pretty close it's funny because they they can grow some beers to Ben brothers when they want to can sometimes Jamie gets real scraggly but Jordy had it Jamie can do whatever he wants he does and he does he does and he does you know the other thing though about Jordy and not just Jordy the the six seven defensemen they are special people especially the ones that they're special teammates I should say um they know that they're not always in the lineup but they're always the positive guys at practice after game during games they're and they're some of the best guys to go out with because they just they they've found a way to accept their roles and I I think they're a delight for management to deal with too and coaches you know because there's times when you know you're kind of not forced but maybe that maybe the GM wants a certain guy to play or maybe the contract says the guy's got to play over somebody and and they just deal with th that kind of you know that that scenario so um and that was Jordy and there's a reason how many teams you say he played for 11 professional sorry 11 professional yeah and so let's not think about that he got moved from those teams it's more about those teams saying we want a guy like that in our locker room we have some young guys around we think he'd be a good Mentor for him and you know get through the process and days and things like that so it just says a lot about the person Joel Hanley exactly I mean that's a perfect example he was yeah he was here for for so long and and just constantly just ready and and there was point last year I think I was kind of hoping he was still here well there was a point going into the playoffs some injuries happened where you were sitting there going and it was before you knew that Alex Petrovic was going to step up and play the way he did you go boy we could really use not talking about him we should talk about Joel Hanley mostly so we can look at his kid play golf have you seen his kid oh my God yeah this is this is courtesy of my girlfriend thank you Katie she watches all the players Instagrams and everything his kid is like already an unbelievable golf you need to find that video get it to John we'll show it on our show tomorrow if we can it's crazy we can see that he's a savant it's wild this this kid's this kid's going to play like Pro Golf like like Joel hit like it's he hits a golf ball better than all four of us I I yeah like he is it is it's it's incredible so we'll find well congratul by Future stock and Hanley congrats to Jordy on a s tremendous professional career honestly uh I I got to know Jordy in the AHL first I was with the Texas Stars he was there he was an awesome teammate uh good guy to work with I remember one time he got called up to the NHL team and um it was the Dallas Stars were not playing well at the time I I think Glen goson was the coach and they were having a tough time and he got sent back down and the Texas Stars were first place and playing extremely well and I remember rope and them were still there or was that before no no way before that yeah yeah it was when uh Jack and Christopher nil were our goalies in the AHL and I asked Jordy I said was it tough to get sent down he goes I obviously love to be there it's the NHL but I'm having more fun here because we're winning and you know some guys could be sulky and that's fine you know you nobody likes getting sent down from the NHL to the miners but you that to me was the ultimate wow he loves this group he loves this team he's happy to be here he still wants to be in the NHL but he was okay because he saw what a great situation the Texas Stars were and I I always thought that was a a great part of him so