https://deathofahockeyplayer.substack.com/
Uma conta nova? Que momento interessante para jogar o novato aos leões.
Para maior comodidade dos nossos leitores, traduzirei a sua pergunta e responderei em inglês:
'A new account? What an interesting moment to throw the newbie into the lions' den'.
This is Andrew Bodnarchuk's Substack, Anon - Death of a Hockey Player. I suppose this is an allusion to Death of a Salesman, hence the 'Arthur Miller' reference in the opening of my post.
It has already been overanalyzed by The Observer. I do not feel the urge to duplicate her rhetoric efforts for a base material of very little factual import. It would invite mere speculation about the life of a side player whom I happen to find only remotely interesting.
I will simply note this: for a hockey player, Mr. Bodnarchuk writes way better and more personally than Madam Mao would ever be able to. I suspect he was the one interested in ready-made spirituality (see his use of a westernized and less mystical version of Rumi's poetry), psychology and self help. Something she must have taken from there and ran up with until today's Instagram pastures.
And his quotes are honest:
[Source: https://deathofahockeyplayer.substack.com/p/its-all-good-homie-fathers-day - posted June 21, 2026]
As far as Rumi's Masnavi goes, I very much prefer R.A. Nicholson's monumental translation (1921 to 1940). I suspect it is more faithful to the fascinating and ever complex essence of Sufi wisdom:
'"I died to the mineral state and became a plant;
I died to the vegetable state and reached animality;
I died to the animal state and became a man; then what should I fear?
—I have never become less from dying."
[Dancing Dervishes, Jean Baptiste Vanmour, 1725]
