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One Million

This morning, The Copper & Blue surpassed 1,000,000 page views.

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The Copper & Blue started in April 2008 as an off-shoot of a lot of different things; my desire to write, my love of hockey and the Oilers in particular, and my boredom with trade school. It's gone through various incarnations; I wrote it alone on blogspot until November 2008, before accepting work at Oilers Nation. After a while, I found that I wanted to do more than one post per day, and in March 2008 I returned to the site and started posting regularly.

It didn't take long before I was approached by James Mirtle, one of the most prominent early hockey bloggers, and the man responsible for SBNation's hockey division.  He convinced me to bring Copper & Blue over to the SBN family of sites, and in April 2009 we relaunched here.  I decided early on that I didn't want to be the only voice of the site, and I'd targetted three other writers, all of whom are now involved with the site: Derek Zona, Bruce McCurdy and Scott Reynolds.  Each brings a unique perspective, and each has in his own way challenged the way I look at the game or helped improve my depth of understanding.  I was thrilled when they joined the site, and what they've done with it since has surpassed anything I could have expected.  Along the way, we did the world a favour and got Ben Massey writing regularly about the Oilers again.

I've had less to do with the site over this last season than I'd ever intended, but if anything I think it's better now than when I was more involved; with a richer perspective on all things Oilers (and occasionally, all things hockey).

But our readers know that, and really, it's our readers I have to thank for getting us to this milestone.  It's a significant one; to have 1,000,000 views of our articles in a little over a year is absolutely incredible.  Thank you for your encouragement, your perspective, your criticism, and most of all, thanks for reading.

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Congrats guys. Don’t read C&B all the time, but when i do, it’s usually good stuff.

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by Kevin Sellathamby on May 22, 2010 11:37 AM MDT reply actions  

Stay thirsty, my friends

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by Bruce McCurdy on May 22, 2010 11:52 AM MDT up reply actions  

Not sure how it happened, but on my screen this entire post showed up as “we are awesome we are awesome” repeated over and over again.

Er, but thanks, readers, for actually looking at this glurge. We do it all for you.

(goes back to groupies on the SB Nation yacht.)

by Benjamin Massey on May 22, 2010 11:45 AM MDT reply actions  

Dammit, you have a yacht now?

A posse ad esse.

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by Jonathan Willis on May 22, 2010 11:54 AM MDT up reply actions  

Yeah, the whole hockey network shares it. It’s called Behind the Wet.

by Benjamin Massey on May 22, 2010 12:09 PM MDT up reply actions  

No! No! It’s called the Scupper & Blue! SHIT SHIT FUCK SHIT DAMN!

by Benjamin Massey on May 22, 2010 12:19 PM MDT up reply actions  

I’ve been waiting for this day for a long time. I promised myself I would have a shower and get out of these pyjamas. Upstairs, Mom’s cooking up TWO boxes of KD to mark the special occasion.

Writer for The Copper & Blue and primary shareholder of Zorg Industries

"Never be ashamed of who you are" -- Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg

by Bruce McCurdy on May 22, 2010 11:57 AM MDT reply actions  

I’m wearing the underwear without a hole in it.

by Benjamin Massey on May 22, 2010 12:25 PM MDT up reply actions  

Don't pat yourselves on the back too much

I think about 250,000 of those views are me hitting F5 at work while I am bored.

by Matt.N on May 22, 2010 12:04 PM MDT reply actions  

something similar for me too…lol….
No JK…its a fabulous site. I frequent many blogs oiler and non oiler related and i must say this one is my favorite.

by SumOil on May 22, 2010 12:56 PM MDT up reply actions  

So, you’re saying you want more updates? Or more comments?

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by Derek Zona on May 22, 2010 3:16 PM MDT up reply actions  

Well, we have the IP of the guy that turned the odometer over…but no idea who it is.

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by Derek Zona on May 22, 2010 12:54 PM MDT reply actions  

Congratulations

It’s certainly deserved.

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by John Fischer on May 22, 2010 1:07 PM MDT reply actions  

Cheers!

Pop the Kokanee. I’m on the way.

by chappy35 on May 22, 2010 1:08 PM MDT reply actions  

Great job guys!

And here I thought I was bad ass for my paltry 39,000 page views. Pfft. I guess I was wrong. Congrats!

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by Smokin' Ray on May 22, 2010 2:40 PM MDT reply actions  

Congrats, genetlemen.

Well deserved attention. :)

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by Baroque on May 22, 2010 5:35 PM MDT reply actions  

Congrats guys, very well deserved indeed.

by Hayley on May 24, 2010 9:23 PM MDT reply actions  

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