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This Week in Anguish

by 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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  1. Ep 199.5: Symphony of Misalignment (2026/05/02)

    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...

  2. Ep 199: When We Were the Good Guys (2026/03/16)

    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...

  3. This Golden Week 2: The Ninety-Ninth Percentile (2026/02/21)

    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...

  4. Ep 198: Stages of Grief, Pt. II (2026/01/31)

    This week in anguish: - Speaks for itself.

  5. Ep 197: Stages of Grief, Pt. I (2026/01/14)

    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...

  6. This Golden Week #1 (2025/12/17)

    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...

  7. Ep 196: This Is What I Bought Into? (2025/11/16)

    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…

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  8. Ep 195: Silky Hands, Golden Voice (2025/11/04)

    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...

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

    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…

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  10. TWIG Ep 1: No-Name Brand

    - 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…

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  11. Ep 193: Why We Fight (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.…

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  12. Ep 192: Cycling Through Boys (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...

  13. Ep 191: Past Performance IS Indicative of Future Results (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...

  14. Ep 190: The Gravy Boat (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...

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

    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...

  16. Ep 188: Two Thousand, Four Hundred and Twenty Days

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

  17. Ep 187: From a Very Personal Place of Loathing (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…

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  18. Ep 186: Sidetracked From Your Digression (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…

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  19. Ep 185: The Rest of the Story (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...

  20. Ep 184: When Flapping Commences (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...

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

    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...

  22. Ep 182: The Eliaphant in the Room (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...

  23. Ep 181: I Liked Walter (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...

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

    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...

  25. Ep 179: Thanks for the Evening, Comrades! (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...

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

    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...

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

    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…

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

    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. -...

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

    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...

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

    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!...

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

    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...

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

    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. -...

  33. Ep 171: Why Didn't the Latvians Get a Concussion? (2023/10/01)

    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…

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  34. Ep 170: Some Other Planet on Which We Would Succeed (2023/09/25)

    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.…

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

  36. Ep 168: "Wow" (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…

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  37. TWiC Ep 1: Cetacean Solidarity (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,...

  38. Ep 167: Team of Theseus (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...

  39. Ep 166: C'mon...Be Nice (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...

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

    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...

  41. Ep 164: I'll Just Move This One to "Most Troubling" (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...

  42. Ep 163: How's That for Analysis? (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…

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  43. Ep 162: They, the World, the League, Whatever, Boston in Particular (2022/11/20)

    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...

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

    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...

  45. Ep 160: Abysmality (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. -...

  46. Ep 159: What Do You Want the Old Numbers For? (2022/10/30)

    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…

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  47. Ep 158: I Hate That I Love This Team So Much (2022/10/24)

    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…

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  48. Ep 157: Hackles Raised (2022/10/16)

    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…

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  49. Ep 156: All Together Now (2022/10/09)

    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...

  50. Ep 155: A Donut Analogy He'd Like You To Consider (2022/05/03)

    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…

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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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