This Week in Anguish

This week in anguish: - PLAYOFFFFFFFFS!   Thanks for listening! This episode supports the Hockey4Youth foundation and HerosHockey.   

- You're a captain, Quintin, and don't let nobody tell ya different.  - Much like the Kübler-Ross stages of grief, the thoughts of your intrepid co-hosts are often misconstrued as being sequential. Can you tell we're getting a bit punchy up here on this playoff precipice? It's the podcast that aims for mildly amusing but has to settle for hysterical. - What should the Rogers Arena staff, our fellow fans, and society at large be doing and/or not doing at every single moment in time so as to not attract our ire and/or disdain? Find out all this and more in our even-keeled and good-natured review of our recent in-person entrapment at the hands of the LA Kings.    Thanks for listening! This episode supports the Hockey4Youth foundation and HerosHockey.   

This week in anguish: - What do we want?                  - Playoff glory or at least to know the particular nature of our ignominious defeat! - When do we want it?                 - Now! ( - Yes, we're having a bit of trouble enjoying the remainder of this regular season.) - What do Ilya Mikheyev, the Babych brothers, this other Babich, Belarussian bazas, and Percy Williams have in common? That's a question Ardella will be sure to answer just as soon as she's finished hand-tabulating the grimmest list on Olympedia.  - Tristan talks back to the radio. If you can throw a hat, you can throw a jersey. Yes, we are actually uniquely hard done by. And for heaven's sake: grow up, John Tortorella!    Thanks for listening! This episode supports the Hockey4Youth foundation and HerosHockey.       

This week in anguish: - Your favourite co-hosts Obstinate and Pliable demonstrate great resilienciness by poking their heads cautiously out of the slough to celebrate Petey's big payday. - We gird ourselves for the upcoming trade deadline by surveying the best last-minute impulse buys in Canuck history, which quickly reveals itself to be a history of best trade deadline deals in Pat Quinn history. - Who lacks all conviction in the postseason and who is full of passionate intensity? Mere anarchy is loosed upon the show as Tristan presents his definitive list of the Clutch vs. the Nahsomuch.  - The third Sedin and the third Courtnall should probably start a support group for tertiary brethren.  - Broken fourth wall update: Ardella and Rachel worked on a Trevor Linden jigsaw puzzle after recording, and Tristan('s goalie) won his beer league playoff game.    Thanks for listening! This episode supports the Hockey4Youth foundation and HerosHockey.    

This week in anguish: - "I went ballistic" - Ardella Thompson - Remember the Sandman? Sure you do. Remember "The Big C.S."? Liar.  - "Arshdeep, I'ma let you finish, but Andreas Martinsen had one of the South Asian NHL debuts of all time!"  - Thanks to Kuldip Bains and Brenton Demko for providing a rare dollop of good vibes.  - We excoriate ourselves for ever subscribing to the Team of Destiny newsletter, and then talk ourselves fifty percent of the way back onto the bandwagon.  Thanks for listening! This episode supports the Hockey4Youth foundation and HerosHockey.    

This week in anguish: - Mustering all the wisdom and sangfroid of her half-century of Canuck fandom, Ardella enters and sagely proclaims, "Pride goeth before the fa-...Hey! Get up, you bum! Are you kidding me!? Aaaaaagh!", flipping over a coaster, and stomping out of the room.  - Look, we remain cautiously optimistic for our seemingly singular swing at the mini-golf windmill, but this week brought back up a feeling or two.  - Shortly after pointing out his criminal brow shape, Tristan frames Noah Juulsen as a question.   - Ardella's Media Miscellany provides third-degree buzz marketing for Tanti Interiors Ltd and offers an excitingly unpaid voice acting opportunity to Daniel Wagner.     Thanks for listening! This episode supports the Hockey4Youth foundation and HerosHockey.    

This week in anguish: - A milestone half-marathon and a souvenir Covid bout kept us off the airwaves for much longer than intended, but you better believe we couldn't resist talking about...Petey being the best at passing the puck into some buckets or whatever. - Ardella welcomes Elias the Third with a bevy of fun facts. Did you know a zebulon is a term for a digression so severe that it sends one careening through the lists of most-popular Swedish baby names?  - The lamps of Kuzmenko's megawatt smile have gone out in Vancouver, and we shall not see them lit again in our lifetimes. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. We will remember them.  - Tristan's lays out the spread for a bric-à-brac picnic including Trevor's trees, Jyrki's groceries, BMo's law, JT and Co's jean jacket, Johnny's brevity, and of course Thatcher's hug snub.     Thanks for listening! This episode supports the Hockey4Youth foundation and HerosHockey.   

This week in anguish: - Tristan and Sistran get corporeal at Rogers Arena as the Canucks defeat the Senators in 18 minutes, leaving Tristan 42 minutes to look a gift wagon in the axle.  - Relative cheer volumes! Timbit timing! Actually accurate Adelaideans! And are we all Canucks, Wayne? Are we really? - Dive boldly, often baldly, and beer-gutted into halcyon summers with Howie Meeker's NHL Showdown.  - Annie get your G.O.A.T., we're kicking it into square one and firing up the etymology wagon.  - We blow it up and start all over again with the Honey Badger.    Thanks for listening! This episode supports the Hockey4Youth foundation and HerosHockey.    

This week in anguish: - The Hughes Bowl brought up, in addition to some hurt feelings for our primordinate son, the issue of strong mom genes. Exhibit A: the Jagrs, and the Jagrs with Cup. Exhibit B: the Hugheses. - We heard from Jim Rutherford for the first time in a long time. Ardella basks in the sweet sounds of regret, while Tristan would like Jim to re-check his Rolodex for monied Vancouver property developers with a vested interest in helping his hockey team. - Almost nearly totally passes without mention of one Roberto L.  - There's a new All-Star skills competition format and the rules, for one of our hosts, at least, are an intoxicating mixture of copious and frivolous.  - Our helmets are too dull (but may be on the precipice of being too shiny), our emboweled wine bar is at once too empty and too extant, and our yellow is all wrong. No, there is nothing we can't whinge about.   Thanks for listening! This episode supports the Hockey4Youth foundation and HerosHockey.    

This week in anguish:  - Various and sundry topics after a two-and-one week in which the wins felt pale and wan in comparison to coming up snake eyes against Vegas yet again.  - We head back to 1994 for a black-red-yellow song suggestion, and then stay there to bask in the hyper-local, Canuckian invention of Cameo 1.0 that was Rob's Stag. - We learn that Zadorov, like Petey before him, is a surprisingly dyed-in-the-wool Canucks fan. What would a team of all Canuckleheads look like?   - We look back to 2019 and chortle with Epimethean hindsight at the Hockey News' projection for this year's roster.     Thanks for listening! This episode supports the Hockey4Youth foundation and HerosHockey. 

This week in anguish: - Tristan takes the reins, so prepare yourself for two things: We'll be covering a lot of ground, and we'll be tilling that good earth very, very lightly.  - Is Kuzy getting chilly in the doghouse? What's scarier than a silent Hög? How many Crawfords work for the Canucks? And ain't it just nice to hear that Trevor still cares? - The PWHL has no plan, but that's still leagues ahead of "plans" like the NHL's anti-sensical take on diversity, equity, and inclusion.    Thanks for listening! This episode supports the Hockey4Youth foundation and HerosHockey. 

This week in anguish: - Bo Horvat and Ardella's DAWG rating goes stratospheric, while Tristan puts the old captain's tears under the microscope.  - Sometimes bitten, forever mauled, Ardella and Iain McIntyre lead us on a tour of the five players who were happiest to see the back of us, statistically speaking, at least. - The PWHL releases their jersey "designs" for their inaugural season, and they're spectacularly unimpressive. Sad Whale noises.  - Natalie Miller supports Hockey Helps the Homeless, and I just hope it doesn't ruffle too many feathers when I say I think that's swell.    Thanks for listening! This episode supports the Hockey4Youth foundation and HerosHockey. 

This week in anguish: - Wound up with the title that it did, but was also very nearly called "Are We Actually the Best?" What can we say? Like most fans, we tend towards oscillation. - I'll see myself out. But not before sharing with you this Gen Z update of the famous leaning Linden photo.  - Ardella is away next week so no new pod for a fortnight, by which time nothing will have gone wrong and everyone will be happy.    Thanks for listening! This episode supports the Hockey4Youth foundation and HerosHockey.

This week in anguish: - Was, for the first few hours of its life, marred by audio issues which are now fixed. Delete and re-download if you're getting an echo.  - There's very little actual anguish to speak of! Tristan is basking in the blue-light glow of the NHL.com standings page and watching fluffy Canucks.com content, while Ardella is inventing monsters under the bed in the form of jersey-embedded micro-stats. - Frivolity levels have extended to the creation of charming Canucks gifs, from Brock and Petey being eternally but playfully withholding, Ian Cole's GOAT, and Beauvillier's jackal alter-ego.  - Don Taylor is being inducted, rightfully and at long last, into the BC Sports Hall of Fame. Now there's nothing left to do but mount the campaign to have Brett Hull and Duncan Keith unceremoniously booted from the BC Hockey Hall of Fame.  - Frank Frederickson, square-jawed scion of Icelando-Canadian ice hockey, and pioneer aviator who ran out of runway at the very end of this episode. Sorry, Frank!    Thanks for listening! This episode supports the Hockey4Youth foundation and HerosHockey.

This week in anguish: - Feels like its head is bobbing just above the surface of the great abyss. Better than the alternative. - A hearty welcome to the pod to anyone who had their Google alerts set for Dit Clapper, Erin Whitten, or the Bil(l)s Laforge, Esqs.  - Andrei Kuzmenko! Travis Dermott! Mariah Fujimagari! Mark Friedman! These are just some of the proper nouns you'll hear on this week's fabulous episode, proper nouns brought vividly to life by verbs! Verbs! Your friend in meaning.    Thanks for listening! This episode supports the Hockey4Youth foundation and HerosHockey.  

This week in anguish: - But no! This week in transitory triumph!  - We are both meaner and more succint in victory, apparently. Apologies to the family of Jay Woodcroft. But we wrapped up all the slander in under an hour! - Melt down the ice and dismantle the sun. Just freeze us in amber this week like a couple of  mammoth-sated mosquitoes.    Thanks for listening! This episode supports the Hockey4Youth foundation and HerosHockey.

This week in anguish: - Finds us surprisingly shaken by Stan Smyl finally falling from the full-time Canuck firmament.  Out of respect for Steamer's proverbial work ethic we take a tight and focused trip to the archives, barely even discussing the hourly rental cost of UBC arena icetime in 1982.  - The Position Player Portion of the Pod prances to its triumphal conclusion, going on the offence with Husky bulldog Aidan McDonough, piff paff puffing with Pius Suter, and rolling out the red linoleum for oft-unsung Tony Tanti.    Thanks for listening! This episode supports the Hockey4Youth foundation and HerosHockey.    

This week in anguish: - Senior Executive Host Ardella is firmly in the driver's seat this week, steering us deftly through many diversions and connections like checking in with a gone Sawyer, putting the "huh" back on the Hronek, and why the humble pride of the Church Athletic League was pleased as punch.  - Tristan puts in a workmanlike shift in the errors and omissions department, plucking the Nanaimo Clippers out of the tub when grasping for the name of a random WHL team, citing the sage words of "Dave Tocchet", and being at least a party to a conversation that referenced "Chris Tanev's draft class". - Do you suffer from diacritical marks? Have you been affected by male-pattern Balderis? Perhaps this segment, ostensibly about Teddy(s) Blueger(s), is right for you.    Thanks for listening! This episode supports the Hockey4Youth foundation and HerosHockey.

This week in anguish: - The pod spends a combined 15+ hours at Canucks training camp, working towards Ardella's stated goal of "just trying not to get attached to these people." - No one was left heaving in a Juolevian heap after any of the drills, heavily hampering our talent-evaluation process.  - We now have a huggable captain, an extant president, and a whisper on the wind about a practice facility.  - How Did We Not Know (and why on earth would you) about the former pride of the Rimouski Oceanic, Thatcher 1.0? - Prick up your ears on a continuing basis for the Position Player Portion fo the Pod, which shines the spotlight on goalies this week and consists of an up-and-comer (Tolopilo), a going concern (DeSmith), and a back-catalogue backstop (Gamble).    Thanks for listening! This episode supports the Hockey4Youth foundation and HerosHockey.    

This week in anguish: - We're back! And just in time to catalogue the Connecticut Whale (and the whole darn PHF) being reduced to oil and ambergris.  - Ardella carefully curates the most impactful happenings of each of the 14 weeks of our hiatus. - Tristan hangs up his prospect expert hat and returns to the pro scouting ranks. Hey, I hear this Troy from Richmond guy is supposed to be pretty good. - We grapple with a world in which the Vegas Golden Knights (and Ben Hutton) are your Stanley Cup champions, Connor Bedard is a Chicago Blackhawk, and Dale Tallon is a Senior Advisor to the putative good guys.    Thanks for listening! This episode supports the Hockey4Youth foundation and HerosHockey.