Joe Bendik wasn’t the most popular man in Toronto at the time of his departure for Orlando City in 2015.
Although his play was presumably hampered by a foot injury suffered early in the season – against Orlando City in an April 26, 2015 match-up, actually – it wasn’t Bendik’s finest season between the posts in the 13 games he did start for the Reds. Toronto went 4-8-1 in those outings, and Bendik had a goals-against average of 2.08 and a save percentage of 62.5%.
Although Toronto boasted one of the league’s worst defensive outfits that season, surrendering 58 goals (tied for worst in the league, and two more than Orlando City’s porous defense allowed that year), it was clear that the injured Bendik was inferior to his replacement Chris Konopka, who had a significantly lower goals-against average (1.