This week in anguish: - Misery loves company, so we are delighted to be joined by Canuck superfan, devoted listener, Vancouver expat, and Thunderbird grinder Alissa McArthur! - The Canucks have just concluded their third-best regular season of all time and were just one game away from the final four...so you better believe we devote significant time to talking about Troy from Richmond, Jacob from Gävle, and Nik from Moscow. - Tristan presents his cockamamie General Theory of Petey Bitterness, while Alissa drinks a bit more deeply from the cup of wisdom and sobers us again. - Hmm, important point of order: Do we actually even like playoff hockey? Won't somebody please think of the Quintin? - We're cool, we're calm, we're gonna be OK...just as long as we come up with the perfect local intro song to counterract our sometimes somnambulant starts.    Thanks for listening! This episode supports the Hockey4Youth foundation and HerosHockey.  

This week in anguish: - The first (and almost certainly last) mid-game episode of TWiA! Crow along vaingloriously with every Brock Boeser snipe! (Even those that turn out to actually be Elias Lindholm's.) Groan plosively with every indignity visited upon our beautiful boys! Strain to hear the off-mic musings of Racquel Rabey!  - Ardella is off to Scandihoovia for the next month and bit, so applications from any prospectively scabby co-hosts are welcomed.   Thanks for listening! This episode supports the Hockey4Youth foundation and HerosHockey.  

This week in anguish: - "Way to go boys! Never doubted you for a second," said your trusty co-hosts while hooked up to an IV drip due to perspiration-related dehydration. - When you move the goal-posts enough, everything becomes a three-pointer (Does that work as metaphor? Look, we barely even understand hockey.) - Tristan short-lists the best play-by-play calls of Pyoos Suter's series-winning goal. (Does that qualify as a pun? Probably not.)  - Time to better get to know more about the historic hardware we might be taking home this season, with our chief archivist reporting in on the Vezina, Adams, Norris, and Byng.    Thanks for listening! This episode supports the Hockey4Youth foundation and HerosHockey.  

This week in anguish: - Look, in the regular season these episode descriptions are mildly useful because you never know what vaguely Canuckian rabbit-hole we'll be crawling down to escape the indignities of the week that was, but in the playoffs? We do actually talk about the here and now, we promise. - That doesn't mean we won't still make time for an exposé on Richard Brodeur's 1982 save percentage and long-forgotten minutiae about Linden's glass-smashing hit. - Let us ape a little bit of Big Zee's sangfroid sass and go boldly together towards Game 5.   Thanks for listening! This episode supports the Hockey4Youth foundation and HerosHockey.   

This week in anguish: - PLAYOFFFFFFFFS!   Thanks for listening! This episode supports the Hockey4Youth foundation and HerosHockey.   

- 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 here on this playoff precipice? It's the podcast that aims for mildly amusing but has to settle for hysterical. - What should the Rogers Arena staff, our fellow fans, and society at large be doing and/or not doing at every single moment in time so as to not attract our ire and/or disdain? Find out all this and more in our even-keeled and good-natured review of our recent in-person entrapment at the hands of the LA Kings.    Thanks for listening! This episode supports the Hockey4Youth foundation and HerosHockey.   

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 remainder of this regular season.) - What do Ilya Mikheyev, the Babych brothers, this other Babich, Belarussian bazas, and Percy Williams have in common? That's a question Ardella will be sure to answer just as soon as she's finished hand-tabulating the grimmest list on Olympedia.  - Tristan talks back to the radio. If you can throw a hat, you can throw a jersey. Yes, we are actually uniquely hard done by. And for heaven's sake: grow up, John Tortorella!    Thanks for listening! This episode supports the Hockey4Youth foundation and HerosHockey.       

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 surveying the best last-minute impulse buys in Canuck history, which quickly reveals itself to be a history of best trade deadline deals in Pat Quinn history. - Who lacks all conviction in the postseason and who is full of passionate intensity? Mere anarchy is loosed upon the show as Tristan presents his definitive list of the Clutch vs. the Nahsomuch.  - The third Sedin and the third Courtnall should probably start a support group for tertiary brethren.  - Broken fourth wall update: Ardella and Rachel worked on a Trevor Linden jigsaw puzzle after recording, and Tristan('s goalie) won his beer league playoff game.    Thanks for listening! This episode supports the Hockey4Youth foundation and HerosHockey.    

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!"  - Thanks to Kuldip Bains and Brenton Demko for providing a rare dollop of good vibes.  - We excoriate ourselves for ever subscribing to the Team of Destiny newsletter, and then talk ourselves fifty percent of the way back onto the bandwagon.  Thanks for listening! This episode supports the Hockey4Youth foundation and HerosHockey.    

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 coaster, and stomping out of the room.  - Look, we remain cautiously optimistic for our seemingly singular swing at the mini-golf windmill, but this week brought back up a feeling or two.  - Shortly after pointing out his criminal brow shape, Tristan frames Noah Juulsen as a question.   - Ardella's Media Miscellany provides third-degree buzz marketing for Tanti Interiors Ltd and offers an excitingly unpaid voice acting opportunity to Daniel Wagner.     Thanks for listening! This episode supports the Hockey4Youth foundation and HerosHockey.