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Bring on the Blackhawks!

The goat count is 322 as of this afternoon! That’s $8,050. Amazing. The support has still been incredible even though the Canucks are between series. After hearing about goat Canucks goat, a group of senior citizens in New Westminster has began a collection that will be used to dig a well and provide water to a community that needs it. This is also done though CRWRC. I also received an email from someone who is currently at the McMurdo Station in Antarctica. So we can now say we have had visitors to this web site from every continent in the world.

After last night’s hockey games, it is now official that the Vancouver Canucks will be playing the Chicago Blackhawks in the second round. The unofficial word is that game 1 is Thursday night at 6:00pm PST. If you remember what happened the last time Vancouver played Chicago it could be a very entertaining series. I wonder if there will be more hair pulling this time. In other Canucks related news, Ryan Kesler was nominated for the Selke trophy today. He is in some tough company against Pavel Datsyuk and Mike Richards but I think Kesler gets the edge because of the PowerSmart commercials he does where he blows an air horn in celebration each time somebody turns the lights off. Hockey smart and Power Smart. What a combo.

Sorry for the lack of updates over the past few days. You will be happy to know that I just finished my last exam and can now dedicate the amount of time Goat Canucks Goat is worthy of. I apologize directly to the goats for not updating lately. Sorry goats.

With an inexperienced Chicago team as the Canucks next opponent I am hoping to see the goat-o-meter keep rising!

Where you guys come from…

257 goats! Unbelievable! That’s $6,425 worth of goats donated by people. I thought that with a long break between Canucks games we would see a decline in the goat buying, but it has not slowed down. Thank you all very much.

If you are like me, you enjoy looking at stats. Since many visitors to the website are hockey fans, I assume most of you enjoy stats too. ex: Did you know that the only two goals Vlaimir Ruzicka scored in the 1990-1991 playoffs were game winners? Great stat. Here are some stats about the visitors to www.goatcanucksgoat.com…

Yesterday was another busy day for the web site with 2,131 visits through out the day. And I think only 2000 of those were from me. The website has had 19,000+ page views. We have had visitors from 466 cities in 43 countries around the world. As soon as we get our first visit from the Antarctica we will be able to say we’ve had visitors from every continent check out goat Canucks goat. As of last night, we have had visitors from 41 states in the USA and all the provinces/territories in Canada except Nunavut. After Canada and the USA, Switzerland is the country we have received the most hits from. 52.88% of our visitors use Internet Explorer as their browser, while only two of you use a browser called SeaMonkey. Iowa is the state that we have had the most visitors from with 69. California (60), Michigan (56) and Washington (52) are not far behind.

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Thanks again to all the goat buyers. With a nice break before the next round of the playoffs begin it gives people some time to get up to speed in their goat buying!

200!!

We just received word from CRWRC that we have reached the 200 goats mark! WOW! Thank you so much to everyone who has got a goat! We set the original goat-o-meter at 100 to have something to reach for and we have already doubled that after only one round. Can you imagine how many goats will be got by the time the Canucks win the Stanley Cup? Amazing!

On the updated map that shows which country people are visiting this website from, we have now reached every continent except Antarctica! We had our first hit from South America yesterday with hits from Brazil.

For all the Canucks fans who were not able to make it to the airport at 3:00am after the Canucks won on Tuesday, I can tell you it was a good time. The Canucks all drove out in their cars and many of them had their windows rolled down and honked their horns. The best reaction of the night goes to Kevin Bieksa who was hanging out of the backseat of a car driven by Kyle Wellwood and let on a huge “woohoo!” with a celebratory fist pump. It was definitely worth the 3 hours of sleep I got that night!

THANK YOU!

CANUCKS SWEEP BLUES!

Alex Burrows scores the winner with 19 seconds left in the first over time! Vancouver completes their first 4 game sweep in franchise history! Bring on round 2 and buy those goats! The goat-o-meter will be updated in the morning after we add up all the new additions to the herd!

Game 4 and Goat Updates

HUGE game tonight! The Canucks are looking to complete their first 4 game sweep in franchise history. If the Canucks can keep Chris Mason’s beard at bay I think they have a great chance at winning tonight. Time to get out the brooms!

GOAT UPDATE: Goats that have been purchased as of Tuesday Morning: 78

At midnight each night, a program automatically updates a map that shows which countries people are visiting this website from. I love waiting till midnight each night to view the updated results. Monday, April 20 marked the highest number of visitors the site has ever had in one day. We added our first African country, Kenya, to the list of countries where people are visiting from. Other notable countries added to the list are: Holland and Bosnia Herzegovina. Two visits in Holland, one from Utrecht and one from The Hague. Very exciting.

If the Canucks can win the series tonight the goat-o-meter may explode!

Check out tonight’s game preview and follow us on twitter during the game tonight!

For those of you from the USA, you can purchase a goat on USA CRWRC page, there is a button on the right beside the Canadian button. Those of you from Canada, continue to use the now Canadian branded button on the right.

GOAT CANUCKS GOOOAAAAAAT!

3-0 Series Lead!!!!

Vancouver Canucks 3, St. Louis Blues 2

The Canucks take a strangle hold on the series with a 3-2 victory in St. Louis! Game 4 is Tuesday at 5:00pm PST from St. Louis! All the Canucks have to do is go 13-12 for the remainder of the playoffs to win the Cup. Another victory = more goats. They are going to have so many goats in Africa it is going to be an epidemic. Wooooo!!!!

CTV News tonight at 6:00pm

A story on Goat Canucks Goat will be featured tonight at 6:00 on CTV News! Hopefully it will be during intermission at that point so you don’t have to flip between the game and the news. Game 3 in 31 minutes!

Game 3 and goat news!

Game 3 is this afternoon at 4:00pm PST from St. Louis. If Luongo continues his unbelievable play I am confident we will win this game. And the next… and the next, until the Captain becomes the first ever goalie to shake the commissioners hand and hoist the Cup. It will be interesting to see if the rough stuff that broke out after game 2 will continue in game 3. No matter what I am pretty sure that Bieksa will look angry for the entire 60 minutes. Does he ever not look angry? Oh well, intimidation is key. I thought it might be fun to throw goats on the ice after each Canucks victory like they do with octopus in Detroit. It would be great to see a bunch of goats make like Bambi and slide around at GM Place. It may be tricky to sneak a live goat into the stadium though. The security guards might get suspiscious when they hear someone’s back pack or purse “baaaaaaahhhhhh.” As the series goes on the Canucks will be at more and more of a disadvantage because of Chris Mason’s beard. Last game he made two or three great saves where the puck was actually stopped by his facial hair. His beard is like having a third d-man on the ice. I have to give him credit though as my beard is quite patchy. It should be another fun game to watch! Unless we lose.

The goat support continues to amaze me. It is absolutely incredible the support that we have been receiving. A big thank you to CRWRC who has been in constant contact with us and worked countless hours to make sure it is as convenient and easy for people to buy goats as possible! Also a thank you must be said to Darrell from www.1981.ca who created this web site free of charge to help the cause. And he also purchased a goat. Thanks to him we have been able to see that people from all over the world have visited the site and helped support the cause. People have come to the site from countries such as France, Germany, Pakistan, New Zealand, the Philippines, Australia and many more countries! As the team’s slogan states, “We are all Canucks.”

The goat-o-meter will be updated some time this morning after we have had a chance to count the new additions to the herd. It will be fun to see it rise if the Canucks can put together a win in St. Louis for game 3.

A reminder again that today’s game is at 4:00pm. Goat Canucks goat!

Game 2: Canucks 3, Blues 0

LOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!

Roberto Luongo posts his first career playoff shutout as the Canucks take a 2-0 series lead over the St. Louis Blues! Vancouver goals scored by Sundin, Burrows and Henrik Sedin. Luongo has let in 2 goals in the last 5 games. I would not be surprised if nobody scores on him for the remainder of the playoffs. Game 3 is on Sunday.

Somewhere in the world goats are bahhhhing in jubilation.

The goat-o-meter will be updated shortly!