When ego meets payback, the ice gets thin fast. 

In Benched: The Hockey Coach’s Fall by Polly Bane, the locker room becomes a courtroom of poetic justice. Darren Grant was the kind of coach every player feared—loud, arrogant, and untouchable. His women’s team endured the insults, the favoritism, the endless lectures about “how the game should be played.” Until Captain Lena decided the season needed a different kind of training. 

What starts as a plan to humble their coach turns into a dark, psychological reckoning about power, shame, and equality. Each chapter peels away Darren’s bravado as the women reverse the hierarchy he built, forcing him to confront what it truly feels like to be powerless. Behind the tension and mind games lies a biting commentary on gendered authority and the thrill of taking back control. 

This episode dives into:
🏒 Why humiliation stories expose the fragile core of dominance
🩶 How revenge can transform into reluctant empathy
🔥 What “discipline” means when the tables finally turn
🧊 The fine line between punishment, pride, and redemption 

Benched isn’t only about payback—it’s about collapse, rebuilding, and the strange satisfaction of balance restored. Taut, darkly humorous, and unsettling, Polly Bane’s story turns the sports-world power fantasy inside out and asks whether control ever truly changes sides. 

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