Ep 132: Giddy With Relief (2021/10/24)

This week in anguish: - We've made our first foray down the I-5, and what have we learned? Ray Ferraro is working for the enemy, Tod Leiweke understands us better than anyone from CSE has in years, and Tristan mounts a spirited defence of arenas with windows. - Seriously, all the best arenas have windows. From the venerable swoops of the Yale Whale, to SC Bern's transparent Postfinance Arena, it's cool to have windows. If you're still feeling to claustrophobic, Valascia literally doesn't have you covered, but the real jewel of the genre has to be HC Davos' Vaillant Arena, pretty indoors and out.  - While we're on the subject, let's take a moment to geek out about Norway's mountain-hewn Gjøvik Olympic Cavern Hall, and take vicarious pride in the Utica Aud's inclusion on some random list. All roads, of course, lead back to the Pacific Coliseum.  - Captain Bo and Conor the Patriotic Garland earn eternal gratitude for ensuring that we'll never really have to hear about this game again.  -Ardella trades in her foolscap for the drafting table, bringing calligraphy to bear on the question of just when (or whether) the Canucks (or the League) became so downright porous. Between her PBS-quality narration and colour-coded, annotated data visualizations, we honestly defy you not to glean something of value or interest from this research.  - Shout-outs to ThePinkPuck.com, John Shorthouse walks us through the layers of one-way protection, and umpteen How Did We Not Know Thats pursuant to sunny expansion teams of yore.    Thanks for listening! This episode supports the Hockey4Youth foundation and HerosHockey.