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PODCAST

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.

All Episodes

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Ep 175: "A" on His Chest, Bee in His Bonnet (2023/10/29)

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2023/10/30

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

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01:13:54

Ep 174: Who Are We to Think We're Anybody? (2023/10/22)

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2023/10/23

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

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Ep 173: But No! (2023/10/15)

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2023/10/16

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.

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01:16:14

Ep 172: We've Never Done This Without Ya (2023/10/09)

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2023/10/10

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

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01:45:40

Ep 171: Why Didn't the Latvians Get a Concussion?...

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2023/10/02

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

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01:40:23

Ep 170: Some Other Planet on Which We Would Succeed...

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2023/09/26

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

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01:35:01

Ep 169: Now It Is Grim Necessity That Brings Us Here...

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2023/07/02

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

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01:43:00

Ep 168: "Wow" (2023/03/25)

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2023/03/25

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 Hockey4Youth foundation and HerosHockey.

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TWiC Ep 1: Cetacean Solidarity (2023/02/21)

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2023/02/21

This week in Connecticut: - 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 Minnesota Whitecaps 1st: Warrior Ice Arena, home of some schmucks from Massachusetts Vestigial 1st: Danbury Ice

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01:29:48

Ep 167: Team of Theseus (2023/02/13)

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2023/02/13

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 we've already had a player who rivalled Conor Bedard's eye-popping World Juniors statistics? Thanks

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01:37:27

Ep 166: C'mon...Be Nice (2023/01/22)

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2023/01/22

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 Tocchet. Huzzah. - Sighs along with John Garrett, and wishes our team could do a better job of embodying

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01:32:46

Ep 165: Lame Ducks in a Trench Coat (2023/01/09)

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2023/01/10

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 least. - The tears in rain fall shortly after Connecticut. These whales are not nice, while this whale is

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01:07:53

Ep 164: I’ll Just Move This One to “Most Troubling”...

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2022/12/23

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' phone number. - The fact that there are no signs of light, even compared to end-stage Benningism. - The

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TWiA: Wildcat Strike

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2022/12/04

This Week in Anguish: - Is on strike until the Canucks make peace with Rachel Doerrie, Brock Boeser, and you know what? Troy Stecher, too. - Failing that, we will abandon these lofty principles and return to the digital airwaves as soon as both co-hosts dig themselves out from the angsty work piles they've become buried under. - Doctors are calling it a high morale sprain, and the prognosis is week-to-week. - All currently captured Tears in Rain have been hermetically sealed for safekeeping and

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01:33:35

Ep 163: How's That for Analysis? (2022/11/27)

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2022/11/27

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 listening! This episode supports the Hockey4Youth foundation and HerosHockey.

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01:07:25

Ep 162: They, the World, the League, Whatever, Boston...

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2022/11/21

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, pitting them against each other in a hunch-based, cap-free battle royale. Tristan immediately proceeds to

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01:09:06

Ep 161: Floundering Around in Stupidland (2022/11/13)

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2022/11/14

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 on the rails for a highly structured, straightforward back-60 minutes. That's how you win in this league,

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01:16:11

Ep 160: Abysmality (2022/11/06)

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2022/11/06

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 Lenka Serdar's...creature (?) to console us. - We leave Shorty behind in this week's Tears in Rain to

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01:09:13

Ep 159: What Do You Want the Old Numbers For?...

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2022/11/01

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 have made much more of Mikheyev's breakout week and Spencer Martin's sterling job maintaining his

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01:14:55

Ep 158: I Hate That I Love This Team So Much...

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2022/10/25

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 Elias Pettersson's early campaign. He's almost as bad as JT, folks! - We ask the big questions about the

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