r/canucks • u/Artemchubarov Official Thomas Drance • Sep 10 '19

ASK ME ANYTHING I'm Thomas Drance from The Athletic Vancouver: Imitator of obscure Russian-born ex-Canucks grinders on Twitter, one-time CanucksArmy overlord, author and former NHL PR guy - AMA

Hey /r/Canucks! Thanks for hosting me over your lunch hour.

Happy to be here with all of you and I'm looking forward to talking some hockey and excited to answer any questions you can dream up. Shoot your shot!

And if you want to use my discount code to subscribe to The Athletic and support what we're getting up to this upcoming season, you can do so here: http://www.theathletic.com/welcomethomas

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u/ColonelBuster Sep 10 '19

Hey Thomas,

Thanks for doing this.

I’ve been a subscriber since Botch and the Athletties so I’m glad there’s some familiar voices coming back to the market. How do you feel you’re acclimating back into the Vancouver market? Do you expect to branch out into other areas of the media sphere like you had before?

Also - will you come on my new hockey/Canucks podcast and talk about analytics with an ‘eye test’ guy? It’s a lighthearted half-hour or so. I’ll owe you one :). I know its a little uncouth to ask here but it’s my only form of social media so it’s all I’ve got.

Cheers and welcome back

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u/Artemchubarov Official Thomas Drance Sep 10 '19

Happy to come on the podcast. My DMs are open on Twitter, so shoot me a note there.

I think I'm acclimating OK, but I have a lot of work to do on the relationships side internally with the Canucks before I'm really a force. I'll put in the work and get there quickly, but it may take some time and guile and patience!