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This Week in Anguish

Tristan and Ardella Thompson

This Week in Anguish is the Canucks podcast that feels your pain out loud. A weekly conversation about the only thing that really matters with co-hosts Tristan and Ardella Thompson. New episodes released weekly during the season and occasionally during the off-season.

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Ep 194: The Most Thing That Could Happen (2025/10/26)

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2025/10/27

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 know what you've got 'til it's gone. - Tristan deems various acts treasonous and calls various people

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TWIG Ep 1: No-Name Brand

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2025/10/20

- 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 following, you may be entitled to compensation after listening to this episode: the city of Buffalo,

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01:26:40

Ep 193: Why We Fight (2025/10/09)

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2025/10/09

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!

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01:22:20

Ep 192: Cycling Through Boys (2024/05/23)

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2024/05/23

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 Gävle, and Nik from Moscow. - Tristan presents his cockamamie General Theory of Petey Bitterness, while

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01:18:08

Ep 191: Past Performance IS Indicative of Future...

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2024/05/14

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 applications from any prospectively scabby co-hosts are welcomed. Thanks for listening! This episode supports

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01:12:29

Ep 190: The Gravy Boat (2024/05/07)

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2024/05/07

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 goal. (Does that qualify as a pun? Probably not.) - Time to better get to know more about the historic

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Ep 189: Turnin' Up Canucks (2024/04/28)

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2024/04/29

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 percentage and long-forgotten minutiae about Linden's glass-smashing hit. - Let us ape a little bit of Big

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Ep 188: Two Thousand, Four Hundred and Twenty Days

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2024/04/22

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

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01:07:29

Ep 187: From a Very Personal Place of Loathing...

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2024/04/06

- 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

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01:07:36

Ep 186: Sidetracked From Your Digression (2024/03/21)

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2024/03/21

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

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01:14:23

Ep 185: The Rest of the Story (2024/03/05)

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2024/03/05

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

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01:07:02

Ep 184: When Flapping Commences (2024/02/22)

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2024/02/22

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

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Ep 183: Because of My Tender Heart (2024/02/12)

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2024/02/13

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

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01:11:41

Ep 182: The Eliaphant in the Room (2024/02/05)

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2024/02/05

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

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01:23:09

Ep 181: I Liked Walter (2024/01/04)

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2024/01/04

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. -

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Ep 180: You Can Only Do What You Can Do (2023/12/13)

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2023/12/14

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

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01:06:57

Ep 179: Thanks for the Evening, Comrades! (2023/12/05)

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2023/12/05

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

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01:08:57

Ep 178: Chastened in My Chuffiness (2023/11/26)

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2023/11/27

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

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Ep 177: Post Toffoli Stress Disorder (2023/11/19)

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2023/11/20

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,

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01:07:53

Ep 176: There's That Shoe Again (2023/11/05)

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2023/11/06

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

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