This Week in Anguish

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...

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...

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...

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-embe...

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 fab...

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 Hockey...

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 wit...

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 N...

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 fac...

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....

This week in anguish: - While Ardella brings her usual homespun statistics and handscribed quotations, the show largely progresses along the lines scralwed out by Tristan in clumsy block letters on clipboarded sheets of looseleaf: CHEECH FILIP HRONEK / TRADE DEADLINE PRIDE CURRENT MANAGEMENT REGIME / PAST MANAGEMENT WEST COAST EXPRESS WHALE   Thanks for listening! This episode supports the  Hockey...

This week in Conne c ticut: - A definitive power ranking of PHF arenas! T-6th: International Skating Centre of Connecticut , home of your beloved Whale T-6th: Northtown Centre , home of the Buffalo Beauts 4th: Canlan Ice Sports York , home of the Toronto Six   3rd: The Rink at the American Dream Mall , home of the Metropolitan Riveters 2nd: Richfield Ice Arena , sunken 70s living room of the Minne...

This week in anguish: - Ardella puts aside her pad of paper and turns show prep over to Tristan for this one, who comes armed with such fascinating and well-researched talking points as "Horvat: chant" and "Pettersson: clothes". - We're Google Translating Swiss newspaper articles to get to the bottom of why HC Visp is abandoning neutrality and Jake Virtanen all at once.  - How Did We Not Know that...

This "week" in anguish: - We struggle to fathom how we got down into this trough, and yet we remember every damn step along the way. - Taps urgently on our tattered "There's no salary cap on respect" sign. - Misses and appreciates Gino Odjick, and will continue to do so forever. - Comes distressingly close to agreeing with Andrew Walker on something. - Rolls out the anguished carpet for Rick Tocch...

This "week" in anguish: - Comes out almost utterly at random now. Much like our beloved squadron, everything is meaningless and there is a distinct lack of accountability.  - With that in mind, it's all ventilated spleens and strangely strenuous ennui for the first 45 minutes or so. - But you'll learn something! Connor Bedard numerology and a curious history of exceptional status, at the very leas...

This week in anguish: - Was recorded shortly before Elias went supernova against the Kraken. We woulda mentioned it, I promise! - Is really just a collection of troubling bullet points from the last month-ish, including such lowlights as... - Our briefly shiny, now tarnished front office and our human rights tribunalations. - How Allvin and Rutherford really, really need to block After Hours' phon...

This week in anguish: - Once again, we've convinced ourselves what a great idea it would be to quarter-watch a muted hockey game while attempting to simultaneously podcast. - The cohesion suffers! Ah well, a good time is had by all (two of us), and we learn a great deal about Swedish 'Nucks, savour some sterling Läck stats, and we add a new chapter to Garrett's Big Book of Pings .    Thanks for li...

This week in anguish: - Seems to dare Jim Rutherford to fire it, so flippantly does it thumb its nose at the very concept of structure. - A roadtrip of comparisons has stolen Tristan's joy, but never fear! The last nine seasons of futility have almost fully numbed his frayed nerves.  - In a fit of November Neurosis, Ardella has dehumanizingly bracketed every one of the Canucks' 48 contracts, pitti...

This week in anguish: - Is one of those weeks that's probably better summed up by all the potential episode titles we discarded in the first 15 minutes. - Any element of mawk-ness has totally disappeared. - There's no ray of light. - We're below the rock that is rock bottom. - If we weren't the laughing stock of the country and of the world... (This one just kind of trails off.)  - We get things o...

This week in anguish: - Was recorded as we watched the Canucks deflate/implode against the Nashville Predators, after each period. We maintained a super even emotional keel throughout, though - no worries. - Is essentially the KevinCast, as Juice, ironically, gave us a great deal to chew over.  - The Whale took it on the fin in their first foray back against the sinful Pride. At least we have Lenk...

This week in anguish: - We bask in the glow of, at long last, a good li'l 48 hours for our beleaguered team.  - We don't let go of old grievances, though! We take Patrick Allvin out behind the pumpkin patch for a talking to.  - More tears are spilled in rain than are captured. That's an assessment of this week's segment, but also probably a fun fact.  - Were we even slightly on the ball, we would...

This week in anguish: - Was the worst single week in Canucks history.(?) Ardella's voice raises at the end of that sentence. Tristan's does not. You decide.  - We lose our damn minds temporarily before we even make it to the nine-minute mark.  - Jim  ̷B̷e̷ Rutherford went on After Hours and that gave us (and Bruce Boudreau) a whooole lot to think about. - Ardella lightens the mood by sewering Elia...

This week in anguish: - Swaddled in ignorance of Saturday's result, we spend a great deal of time bewailing game one. - It's not like we're going to give up a multi-goal lead and allow another shorthanded goal against in the very next game, right? Right!? - Not to worry, though. We sort out Bedard to the Canucks by 2025, max. - Ardella has questions, Tristan adopts a power-play, and Whales are spo...

This week in anguish: - We begin season five (!) with a whole new ethos: no prep. - We swoon for Kuzmenko, stump for Bo, mull over Miller and manage to fall a little bit more in love with our beloved Bruce. - Despite (and, to be honest, preceding) all these fuzzy feelings, we still find a tremendous amount to be anxious about! Damn the gods for putting the season of Brock in peril. Why is there su...

This week in anguish: - 51 years of season-summating headlines, handily hi-lited for your edification.  - A last fond look back at our bygone betters, the boys of 2002. - Talking over the year-end media availabilities, but really just lamenting our inability to give Brock a hug.  - A whistlestop tour of Transcarpathian ethnicities, featuring all your favourite Horvats.  - How Did We Not Know that...