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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.

Nov 1, 2020

This week in anguish:

- Is enlivened by the presence of Moezine Hasham, founder of the Hockey4Youth organization. While we may differ with Coach Moe on the present weight of Braden Holtby's past bona fides, and on the potential desirability of any (any!) Canadian team winning the Stanley Cup, we agree with him on pretty...


Oct 19, 2020

This week in anguish:

- Famously, on the day both his wife and mother died, Theodore Roosevelt inscribed a large, black "X" in his diary with the words, "The light has gone out of my life." In more recent news, Troy Stecher is no longer a Vancouver Canuck. 

- Although all roads lead back to Troy, we talk about various...


Sep 6, 2020

This week in anguish:

- Can probably best be summed up by the many potential episode titles that didn't quite make the cut...

- If Not Zen, A Little More Sanguine

- Sunday Mourning

- One Fat Lehner Glove Away

- Holding Hands Around the Goalie

- Half of a Master Plan

- That’s Barely Outshot (In Canuck Language)

- I Do...


Aug 31, 2020

This week in anguish:

- We talk through one of the most remarkable weeks for the hockey world in living memory. 

- We draft a letter to Francesco Aquilini, asking him to commit to supporting the initiatives of the Hockey Diversity Alliance.

- We educate ourselves about Black hockey history and racism's deep roots in the...


Aug 24, 2020

This week in anguish:

- The Canucks' fortunes soar as high as they have in almost a decade this week, while Tristan still found time in Games 3 and 4 to plumb those old familiar depths of despair.

- Two seconds: Proud as fudge of Travis Green. Enjoy him for a bit. Frankly correct. Turn the music up. 

- We revel in the...