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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.

Dec 31, 2021

This week in anguish:

- Five hundred! Mediocrity never tasted so sweet. Tristan defends Tanner Pearson, JT Miller censors himself for Ardella's benefit, good chaos, and other thoughts on the OT win vs Anaheim.

- Dmitri Zlodeyev is our entry point to From Russia With Love, Ardella's half quiz, half retrospective segment...


Dec 21, 2021

This week in anguish:

- Betcha forgot about the plight of those plucky '01-'02 Canucks. Well, they didn't forget about you.

- Observations deriving from the recent mic'ings up of Messrs. Garland and Miller. 

- Mocking the prognosticators at the end of Carolina's Rutherford era.

- The Smyl Files: The Coaching Years

- How...


Dec 15, 2021

This week in anguish:

- Was recorded at 6:30 on Tuesday morning, which explains a) why we didn't mention anything about Covid once again stalking the Canucks, and b) our razor-sharp wits.

- We go through the tumultuous week in fine detail, bursting all Joy's grapes upon our palates fine until we find the one that turns...


Dec 6, 2021

This week in anguish:

- Has achieved peak irrelevance by recording a 1½ hour audio interpretation of a franchise listlessly circling the drain, entirely unaware that massive, long-overdue changes were a few hours away.

- Wait - weren't the Abbotsford Canucks supposed to be good at least?

- Ardella has a new Google...


Nov 28, 2021

This week in anguish:

- We float in a numb purgatory, suffering ever new and ever more bad occurrences, while never getting the cathartic release of the consequences of those occurrences.

- In what months are general managers most likely to be fired, and how many NHL games are they most likely to have played in? Behold...