This week in anguish:

• We play a round of Vancouver's new least-favourite board game, Twisted Incentives.

• Alexandre Ménard-Burrows is back behind the bench of les Habitants, and it leads us to a check-in with all our old 2011 besties. Sure, we've lost touch a bit in the last decade, but it's nice to hear so many of them are doing well. I'm sure they meant to write.

• Canuck connections led us to two tragic stories this week: the death of Corey Schneider's nephew in a house fire (link to family GoFundMe page), and the 2017 death at police hands of Koray Celik (link to Ottawa Life Magazine story).

• We stuff even more receipts into Thomas Drance's already overladen attaché as we welcome him back from his triumphant trip to Buffalo to...prove that we're really, like, unfathomably the worst.

• In this week's Stech in Time: Your boy scores his first of the year and first as a Red Wing, assisted byyyy...Sam Gagner. This brings up some things.

• Is anybody clutch in the playoffs? Is that a thing? If it's a thing, does Vasily Podkolzin have some of that thing? How much, would you say?

• One Timers this week is brought to you by an adorably churlish Pavel Bure. Blink and you'll miss it.

• How Did We Not Know how ludicrously unfair a mismatch exists between the expansion draft rules for the Canucks in 1970 and the Kraken today. And still Vegas seems to get the easiest ride ever.

• We need a song.

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