- 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 her

Ep 186: Sidetracked From Your Digression (2024/03/21)

Mar 21st, 2024 1h 7m

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 rema

Ep 185: The Rest of the Story (2024/03/05)

Mar 5th, 2024 1h 14m

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 su

Ep 184: When Flapping Commences (2024/02/22)

Feb 22nd, 2024 1h 7m

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!" - Th

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

Feb 13th, 2024 1h 12m

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 coast

Ep 182: The Eliaphant in the Room (2024/02/05)

Feb 5th, 2024 1h 11m

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 buc

Ep 181: I Liked Walter (2024/01/04)

Jan 4th, 2024 1h 23m

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

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

Dec 14th, 2023 1h 13m

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

Ep 179: Thanks for the Evening, Comrades! (2023/12/05)

Dec 5th, 2023 1h 6m

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 t

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

Nov 27th, 2023 1h 8m

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 si

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

Nov 20th, 2023 1h 8m

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 player

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

Nov 6th, 2023 1h 7m

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 G

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

Oct 30th, 2023 1h 9m

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-li

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

Oct 30th, 2023 1h 9m

This week in anguish: - 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 fluffy Canucks.com content, while Ardella is inventing monsters under the bed in the fo

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

Oct 23rd, 2023 1h 13m

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

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

Oct 16th, 2023 56m 51s

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 an

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

Oct 10th, 2023 1h 16m

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

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

Oct 2nd, 2023 1h 45m

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 hu

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

Sep 26th, 2023 1h 40m

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 dri

Ep 169: Now It Is Grim Necessity That Brings Us Here (2023/07/02)

Jul 2nd, 2023 1h 35m

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 hiatu

Ep 168: "Wow" (2023/03/25)

Mar 25th, 2023 1h 43m

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

TWiC Ep 1: Cetacean Solidarity (2023/02/21)

Feb 21st, 2023 57m 51s

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 T

Ep 167: Team of Theseus (2023/02/13)

Feb 13th, 2023 1h 29m

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

Ep 166: C'mon...Be Nice (2023/01/22)

Jan 22nd, 2023 1h 37m

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,