Amalie Benjamin moving to NHL.com

[nattysez]

So, news: After 12 years (eek!), I’m leaving the Boston Globe. I’m headed for http://NHL.com, as a feature writer based in Boston.

Amalie Benjamin is heading to NHL.com. I never heard the full story of why the Sox beat writer to features writer to NHL beat writer transition happened, but I guess she likes the NHL enough to stick with it. I have no strong feelings about her writing; she seems competent and is a solid, unannoying Twitter follow.

 

[Smiling Joe Hesketh]

I believe she left the Sox beat because she wanted to start a family and the travel wasn't ideal.

Good luck to her. My guess is that she'll hardly have to travel at all writing for the .com.

 

[kenneycb]

Amalie Benjamin is heading to NHL.com. I never heard the full story of why the Sox beat writer to features writer to NHL beat writer transition happened, but I guess she likes the NHL enough to stick with it. I have no strong feelings about her writing; she seems competent and is a solid, unannoying Twitter follow.

Plus she's murdered Joe Haggarty on Twitter before. Which is always a positive.

 

[PedroSpecialK]

Good for her, both for making that transition from MLB to NHL without skipping a beat. As big a buffoon as Haggerty is, the best part of that whole Twitter exchange was the ultimate pot-calling-the-kettle-black moment:


The Haggerty-Murphy bromance is positively Randy & Lahey-esque

 

[Haunted]

Since when does James Murphy know hockey? His track record is Eklund-quality.

 

[PedroSpecialK]

Hijacking the thread a bit (apologies) but my favorite was Haggerty's hare-brained Marchand for Marleau proposal, that Murphy then took and ran with as if it were on the table.

Clowns like that deserve each other

 

[Jordu]

Yesterday NHL.com hired long-time Bergen Record Devils beat reporter Tom Gulitti to cover the Devils. The NHL must be offering good money. I imagine it'll hire a few more like Gulitti and Benjamin.

http://fireandice.northjersey.com/fire-ice-1.174987/preparing-for-a-farewell-to-fire-and-ice-1.1535140

MLB Advanced Media, MLB's online arm, is paying $100 million a year for all NHL online rights (NHL gets 10 percent stake in MLBAM) so the NHL has a bunch of money to spend on reporters.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/what-you-really-need-to-know-about-nhl-deal-with-mlb-advanced-media-152216304.html

Word is that the Globe will not replace Benjamin until next season.