This Week in Anguish

This week in anguish: - We mourn the loss of John Garrett, who exemplified what a Canuck should be. - Was lovingly constructed in small, artisinal batches and later reassembeled by experienced anguish technicians. - Reminds us, via the Goldeneyes, what a fun hockey game and cheer-forable hockey team feels like. - Finally gets down to business with an evisceration of the post-Alllvin-firing Jim Rut...

This week in anguish: - We declare a unilateral temporary armistice with the present and bury our heads in the sands of time in honour of the eternal voice of your Vancouver Canucks, Jim Robson.  - And yet, there's always time to pour one out for Petey.  -We scrutinize Tyler's miserly parting words as a Canuck, and note that Conor at least threw a garland or two to the city that--...no, I can't go...

This golden week: - Has established for a fact that delaying the editing of a podcast is not the last little superstitious push the Olympians needed to get them across the golden goal-line.  - Sure, Claire Thompson may be known as Human ChatGPT to her teammates, but your stalwart co-Thompsons are unintimidated, since they've long been known as the Human Microfiche and the Human Disc One of Microso...

This week in anguish: - Speaks for itself. 

This week in anguish: - Firing madly off in all directions, various admixtures of goodbye, good riddance, and good grief are extended to Minnesota Wild legend Quinn Hughes, the culture of the team, and the powers that be who inculcated it.  - We've worked out way through denial and anger, and have swum through our familiar wallowing hole of depression. Join us next time as we attempt to collective...

This golden week... - Is vanguarded by some pretty sweet intro music, eh? It's a section from the track "Beach Runner" off the excellent Ocean City LP by Pacific Coliseum .  - This Week in Gulls flew too close to the sun on its one and only sortie; we disavow all past anguishes and grievances and welcome  This Golden Week into the Thompsopodiverse.  - Wrongs will be righted if we'red united! A war...

This week in anguish: - Was barrel-aged an extra week for no particular reason, but, since we track back our futility in this and all episodes to 1970, our analysis remains as perenially trenchant as it is petulant.  - Tristan heads to the fabric marker aisle and tries to remember what a duck looks like.  - Marvel at tales of past woes in Where Were You When? and glory days gone by in Why Are We D...

This week in anguish: - Is not merely emotionally but also  technically anguished, with our li'l audio recorder pitching a few micro wildcat strikes throughout the episode. The coherence of one lacuna was rescued by the producer's surely imperceptible technical wizardry, whereas in other spots we lean upon the listener's own artificial general intelligence to fill in the um s and ah s that have be...

This week in anguish:   - The bruised and contused Canucks inspire us to revist Aaron Rome's ever-so-slightly-delayed hit in the harsh light of 5,249 days later.  - We map out the Bohemian past and DEL future of Lukas, by far the most Canuck of the many magnificent Reichels.  - How Did We Not Know what a can of fascinating worms would be opened via our discussion of the emptying of nets. You don't...

- Welcome to the first episode of This Week in Gulls (hereafter: TWIG), the PWHL Vancouver podcast that, oddly, shares a team-building philosophy with Tony Montana. First you get the name, then you get the logo, then you get the women.   -  Behold! But like, y'know, if a real person did it. The weird beak-frown can probably stay, though. - If you identify with or have affinity for one or more the...

  This week in anguish: - Check, check. Test one-two.  - Sorry about the unplanned and unannounced five hundred and four day hiatus.  - In our defense, last season was something of a, how you say,  mega-bummer , non? - Why we quit, why we're back, and how all roads basically just lead back to Brock. - Go Gulls!

This week in anguish: - Misery loves company, so we are delighted to be joined by Canuck superfan, devoted listener, Vancouver expat, and Thunderbird grinder Alissa McArthur! - The Canucks have just concluded their third-best regular season of all time and were just one game away from the final four...so you better believe we devote significant time to talking about Troy from Richmond, Jacob from...

This week in anguish: - The first (and almost certainly last) mid-game episode of TWiA! Crow along vaingloriously with every Brock Boeser snipe! (Even those that turn out to actually be Elias Lindholm's.) Groan plosively with every indignity visited upon our beautiful boys! Strain to hear the off-mic musings of Racquel Rabey!  - Ardella is off to Scandihoovia for the next month and bit, so applica...

This week in anguish: - "Way to go boys! Never doubted you for a second," said your trusty co-hosts while hooked up to an IV drip due to perspiration-related dehydration. - When you move the goal-posts enough, everything becomes a three-pointer (Does that work as metaphor? Look, we barely even understand hockey.) - Tristan short-lists the best play-by-play calls of Pyoos Suter's series-winning goa...

This week in anguish: - Look, in the regular season these episode descriptions are mildly useful because you never know what vaguely Canuckian rabbit-hole we'll be crawling down to escape the indignities of the week that was, but in the playoffs? We do actually talk about the here and now, we promise. - That doesn't mean we won't still make time for an exposé on Richard Brodeur's 1982 save percent...

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 fello...

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'...

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....

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 ne...

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...

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 on...

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 Showd...

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...

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 surp...