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!

This just in…151!!!

WHAT?! The new goat tally is at 151 purchased as of this afternoon….Words cannot even describe Vancouver Canucks fans. You are seriously the greatest fans in the world! We’ll get on resizing the goat-o-meter target point…for now lets just admire the current exploding goat-o-meter.

We’re on Canucks.com!

Derek Jory from Canucks.com has written an unreal article about us. Thanks so much Derek, this is huge!

An Excerpt:

“When Joel Nagtegaal was a small fry whipping around the neighborhood with a hockey stick, his dad taught him an important lesson that really stuck.

Always ask the other kids to play and if they don’t have a stick, we’ll get them one.

It was through that generosity that Nagtegaal developed a pay it forward attitude towards life, an attitude that is now benefiting people who suffer from poverty, hunger, disaster, and injustice.

Nagtegaal, a student at the University of the Frasier Valley, and a few buddies from his roller-hockey team were sitting around a few weeks ago mulling over who would grow the meanest playoff beard.

That led to playoff goatees, which led to playoff goats and Goat Canucks Goat was born…”

Read the Full Article Here

Desktop Wallpapers

Show your support with the newly made hi-res version of the logo for your desktop wallpaper, you can even see the threads on the goat jersey and the goatee is gettin longer!

You can download them here:

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125!!!

Wow, as of this morning, we have just hit 125 goats and exploded the goat-o-meter. THANK YOU! Everyone has been extremely generous towards this great cause, and all of you are making this a continued success.

We will up the goat-o-meter target amount soon, so we can get ready for the Canucks in round 2!

Please remember, if you are Canadian, please use the Canadian “Buy a Goat” button on the right, or the correct link on the facebook page. This way CRWRC can send the correct tax receipt. This make it easier for them so they don’t have move any donations around from USA link to the Canadian one.

I believe we are going to be on Canucks.com today at around 11am, so be sure to check that out.

GOAT CANUCKS GOAT!

(We are at 3200 unique visits, and 8500 page views on our site!)

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!

CTV Clip

We’ll need to work on cropping the clip, but if you go here: CTV News - Apr. 19 @ 6pm and click to the time: 5:37 you should see the clip of us on the news! Again, we’ll try and trim it down, for now just fast forward!