This week in anguish:

- Ardella's opening statement begins with a sigh, followed by a brief moment of levity where she describes herself as being simply "so darn sad", before things really go downhill and it's hard to tell hockey- and COVID-fatigue apart as she laments, "Really? I had to live through this week just to be back here again?"

- This was a really bad month of hockey. So bad that it has engendered comparisons to "the era". We're not ready for that, so instead we enlist a much younger Tony Gallager to take us on a tour of the least successful month in Canuck history, October 1984. 

- We hide from the world in the bucolic idyll that was the Utica Comets this week. 

- Ardella ties up a few of her own loose ends, with sections on how and why one might win something for the Gipper, a much-needed retrospective on the Captain and Tennille, and the meritorious record of Carl Brashear. 

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