Roxy Fever

The beginning of the hockey season is nearly upon us, but this Canucks season is already feeling like the house from Poltergeist: the vibes are fucked, with Francesco Aquilini under the microscope for horrific reasons, Rachel Doerrie departing from the club, Jake Virtanen getting more unwarranted chances, and further controversy and disgrace surrounding Hockey Canada. PLUS: Jackson and Vyas saw Avatar in IMAX, so we're gonna talk about that for a bit before using callipers to determine who we're cheering for in the Blue Jays vs Mariners Wild Card playoff series. Support the show at patreon.com/roxyfever

The Queen died, so we're celebrating by welcoming Daniel Wagner (Pass It To Bulis) back to the show. No Vyas or Elliot this week. If you'd like to hear from them, the last episode never showed up on Apple Podcasts for some reason. Weird. Go track it down, it was good. Support the show at patreon.com/roxyfever

jt miller is here to stay. i have become the joker trying a title change to see if i can get apple to finally fucking post this

Kadri signed immediately after the last ep so we had to do another one

This is basically a lost episode. I genuinely can't remember what we talked. Hockey cards, I think. Something about JFK? Anyways, skip to 35:30 if you don't wanna hear us talk about Jake Virtanen again.

In a twist worthy of O Henry, Vyas is away writing the bar exam the week we get heavy into legal proceedings. Bit of a heavy show this week as the guys discuss the myriad sexual assault lawsuits unfolding right across hockey, including Hockey Canada, Edmonton Oilers owner Daryl Katz, and former Vancouver Canuck forward Jake Virtanen. But don't worry, before all that they're joined by Nation Network commander-in-chief David Quadrelli for a light and funny discussion of the Canucks' inaction on their many pressing needs, how the team fared at the draft, Johnny Hockey's exit out of Alberta, and of course, the three stances every goalie must know: standing, hunching, and crouching. Subscribe to the Patreon at Patreon.com/roxyfever for access to this month's Heritage Minute, Part 2 of a long look at Vancouver's reputation as a "goalie graveyard".

Monster-sized RF thing: Muppet Ice Storm/Avs-Bolts/Torts to Philly/Andrei Kuzmenko's dinner at JOEY/Hockey Canada lawsuit/HHOF inductees/renaming NHL awards CW: sexual assault. Hockey Canada lawsuit discussion from 56:50 to 1:03:06

We review the conference finals and give our predictions for the SCF, congratulate Ryan Miller on his jersey retirement, and discuss the possibility of Kevin Bieksa signing a one-day contract with the Canucks. PLUS: Is the Canucks' locker room too much like a country club? What does that even mean? Nobody knows, but it's provocative.

We talk a little bit about the new hires on the player development side for the Canucks, say goodbye to the Panthers, Flames, Blues, and Canes and preview the conference finals. Heads up, we talk about the recent Hockey Canada sexual assault lawsuit and Mitchell Miller hate crime story starting at 1:11:45, so skip ahead to 1:18:30 if you'd like to avoid that.

After diving into some behind-the-scenes stories from episode 100, we talk Boudreau's return, review round 1 of the NHL playoffs, and give our predictions for round 2.

Special thanks to Ramina Shlah, Cody Severtson, David Quadrelli, Chris Faber, Justin Morrisette, Jyrki21, and countless others who wish to remain anonymous.

Vyas is "studying" for "the bar" so Cody joined Jackson to update the listeners on goings-on in Abbotsford with the Canucks AHL affilate. Topic include the Canucks' failure to develop players at the AHL level, Mikey DiPietro's disastrous season, projecting the futures of Danila Klimovich and Jack Rathbone, and the crazy story of Japanese national/erstwhile Abby Canucks top-6 forward Yushiroh Hirano

We speedrun through every move mad at the TDL, take some calls, and solicit a couple of text questions from listeners designed specifiacally to piss Jackson off.

We preview the trade deadline and take some incredibly relevant and up-to-date calls.

It's the episode nobody asked for but that we had to do because hockey is extremely stupid. Longtime friend of the show Tyler Shipley joins us to discuss the war in Ukraine and the responses to it from the media, IIHF, CHL, and the NHL. BUT FIRST: a special message of congratulations from an old friend of the pod.

We talk Cammi Granato, the Olympics, the convoy, and name the first ever Reverse All-Star team

We talk Allvin, Castonguay, trade rumors, and play a little game of "guess the player" courtesy of our old pal Iain MacIntyre, all while watching Vyas play chell over Zoom.

Jyrki is back to promote his new book "The Complete Benning On Empty" and to wildly speculate on a bunch of counterfactuals from Canucks history.

Content warning: SA, domestic abuse We spend way too much time talking about which movies we've seen over the past month, discuss the Kodak Black incident, and do a deep dive into Evander Kane's rap sheet.

We talk hirings and firings, Dig into the new Jim's record with Pittsburgh, laugh about the Coyotes not paying their taxes, and react to the final Benning On Empty strip.