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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 each Sunday during the season,

some Sundays during the off-season.

Oct 28, 2018

This week in anguish:

- Move over, "Little Things" Loui, and make way once again for Elias "Fantastic Things" Pettersson.

- Tristan goes full hockey man on John Tortorella, and reminds him that, at least in terms of the NHL, he never even "played the game".

- Everyone's least favourite segment: Concussion Watch 2018. We...


Oct 21, 2018

This week in anguish:

- We've had a week to calm down after Petey's injury. We retract nothing, except our failure to believe in Bo's extreme gumption. 

- Travis Green is developing a bit of a persona. Is it disdainful or sassy? Which is better? What do we want out of a coach's presser, anyhow?

- Is this team actually...


Oct 14, 2018

This week in anguish:

- Are you serious? Even when we brace for the worst, it's worse than we could imagine.

- Ardella unearths some very upsetting statistics about concussions and career longevity.

- We both grapple with the idea and the practicalities of pushback, from facewashing to McSorleying and everything in...


Oct 8, 2018

This week in anguish:

- Breaking news! Elias Pettersson is a sensational hockey player and a pretty darn cool human being. You heard it here also, folks.

- Erik Gudbranson followed the hockey code to a T, and we hated every minute of it. We go on a winding journey through hockey violence with stops at Rick Rypien, Brian...


Oct 1, 2018

This week in anguish:

- We chew over a pretty disheartening preseason. When will the young guns force themselves onto the team? Will they have more of a chance to next year?

- We wholeheartedly support the t-shirt cannon arms race, and are pretty OK with the Viking clap. Now, if we could just fix the fin... #fixthefin