Ep 138: Push Both Buttons (2021/12/05)

This Week in Anguish

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 search term emotional temperature: jokes.

- We crunch the numbers on Petey's generosity.

- Halcyon Canucks quotes from days when we might have sucked nearly as hard, but we still managed to have fun doing it.

- Jason Farris is a very smart man who wrote some ostensibly very smart things about the traits of successful hockey organizations. Unfortunately, everything keeps coming up Bowman in the end.

- Wait again - what actually went down around the 2015 firings of Laurence Gilman and Lorne Henning? (Sorry, Eric Crawford.)

- 15 years of Canucks' talent evaluation misadventures as exemplified by the top 107 current KHL scoring leaders.

- Random insights derived from searching the terms "scott melanby" in the Vancouver Sun and Province archives from 2008-2011.

- Francesco told us it would be darkest before the dawn. In the dying moments of the Benning era, Tristan carves out a slice of his hockey heart and gives it to another, adopting the Connecticut Whale of the Premier Hockey Federation as his first ever Team I Am Also Cheering For.

- I thought we were playing the Boston Pride later that afternoon. Turned out it was the Minnesota Whitecaps. And we won! This concludes Ep. 0 of This Week in Connecticut.

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