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ISSUE 9 | SUNDAY, MARCH 10, 2019 AN OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF CURLING CANADA
Alberta’s Koe
a win away
from his fourth
Tim Hortons
Brier title after
rolling through
Saturday’s
in the 1-2 Game
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Alberta skip Kevin Koe calls the Northern Ontario
line. The Albertans cruised to a 9-4 skip Brad Jacobs.
victory over Northern Ontario.
Can anyone stop Koe?
Albertans remain unbeaten in march to Tim Hortons Brier final
1-2 Game
But despite the loss, a victory over Team
By GRANT GRANGER Wild Card, skipped by Brendan Bottcher of
Tankard Times Writer Edmonton, in today’s semifinal means they’ll
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get a third crack at beating Koe in three days.
And if they do they’ll have won the Brier.
.J. Neufeld has been on the wrong end once with Koe and twice with Kevin Martin. in Regina. Yeah, it would be cool,” said Neufeld. In the last five Briers, including this one, the
of Brier Kevin. He’s happy to be on the “These chances don’t come too often. Alberta scored early and often killing any Jacobs squad has a 47-7 won-loss record in
right side of it this week. For me, obviously, and Ben to win another it hope of Saturday night drama at Westoba round-robin play, but has not won the champi-
Kevin Koe, the Alberta skip, is seeking would be nice, but it would be nice to win for Place. Koe scored two in the first end and stole onship in any of them. This is the fourth time
his fourth Brier title in seven appearances. our teammates (Neufeld, second Colton Flasch three in the second. After forcing Northern Koe has beaten Jacobs in Brier playoffs with
And when he’s dialled in, Brier Kevin usually and alternate Ted Appelman), they’ve never Ontario to one in the third, they got two more victories in the 2010 and 2016 semifinals and
wins. He certainly seems to be this week as done it,” said Koe. “We’re going to be in in the fourth. No team in Brier history has the 2017 3-4 Page playoff game.
Alberta advanced to today’s final of the 2019 tough, whoever we play. The (final) definitely overcome a six-point deficit and it didn’t hap- “If we’re playing Bottcher, great, we’ll
Tim Hortons Brier, presented by AGI, by won’t be like that, we’ll have to probably pen last night. have to play well. If we play Jacobs again
blitzing Northern Ontario’s Brad Jacobs 9-4 bring our best game of the week. We’re where “That loss right there, that’s all on me. It’s we’ll be playing a totally different team (than
Saturday. Alberta will carry a 12-0 record into we need to be.” on my shoulders. The boys played great in Saturday night),” said Koe. “I hope we come
tonight’s final (7 p.m.). For his part, Neufeld is looking to follow front of me. I told them I’ll be better tomor- out and play our best game. Who knows
“This is obviously an event he always looks in the footsteps of his father Chris, who won row, and that’s the plan,” said Jacobs, who what’ll happen. It’s the Brier final, you’re
forward to every year. It really gets his juices a Brier playing second for Manitoba’s Vic is supported by third Ryan Fry, second E.J. playing a great team.
flowing and it brings out the best in him. I’m just Peters in 1992. Harnden, lead Ryan Harnden, alternate Lee “It’s hard to beat them one in a row. Doing
glad I’m on the team,” said Neufeld. “To get a Brier title would obviously mean Toner and coach Adam Kingsbury. “I think I the math, it’s tough. Obviously they weren’t
Alberta lead Ben Hebert will also be look- the world to me. I’ve always wanted to follow in skipped us into some questionable situations at their best today, and I don’t even remember
ing for his fourth Tankard title having won my dad’s footsteps ever since he won that Brier there. I did for sure, and didn’t get results.” last night’s game all of a sudden.”
Gushue’s pocket picked
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Defending champ bows out after painful loss
ice or a piece of pebble.” be working until Bottcher was able to push
By GRANT GRANGER After the rock went astray, Gushue twirled in out Gushue’s final shot and score four. It was
disgust and then dug into the ice and pulled a pebble basically game over.
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Tankard Times Writer
out of a deep groove. “It was just a freak thing.” After finishing the round robin 9-2 here,
rad Gushue’s bid for a three-peat at the Gushue recalled giving up a steal of three Gushue, who has lost the Brier 3-4 Page playoff
2019 Tim Hortons Brier, presented by against 2014 Olympic gold medallist Brad game all five times he has played in it, felt his
AGI, was derailed by a small pebble in Jacobs at the 2017 Tim Hortons Roar of the team was rounding into form and had a shot at
the 3-4 Page playoff game Saturday afternoon Rings curling trials on a pick. It was a loss, he going all the way, although it wouldn’t be easy.
Gushue had just delivered his final shot in felt, that cost them a place in the final that went “No disrespect to Bottcher’s team, they’re an
the second end — he was trying a soft double to Kevin Koe, who had a 7-1 round-robin record incredible team and they’ve got a good chance to
takeout to score two or possibly three — when compared to Gushue at 6-2. Gushue then lost the win, (but) I don’t feel like we were beaten today.
his Team Canada rock did an abrupt left turn and semifinal 6-4 to a red-hot Mike McEwen. I feel like the circumstances got the better of us,”
headed to the sideboards allowing Team Wild “That one stung for a while. Even after the said Gushue. “It just feels like outside forces
Card, skipped by Edmonton’s Brendan Bottcher, week was done, you look back you kind of think caused us to lose that game.
to steal a point. After several tight, well-played if that one didn’t happen we could have got there. “We probably win that game 75 per cent, 80
ends, Bottcher scored four in the eighth and went I’m sure we’re going to have thoughts about this per cent of the time with that score (ahead 2-0)
on to win 7-2 and advance to today’s semifinal. all the way through to the summer,” said Gushue. after two. Then all of a sudden you flip the switch
Gushue felt the second-end pick flipped the The misfortune aside, Team Canada — with and it’s 65 per cent in their favour. It’s huge.”
game around. third Mark Nichols, second Brett Gallant, lead Despite the deep disappointment, Brad and
“All of a sudden you feel like you’re chasing Geoff Walker, alternate Tom Sallows and coach his boys will be back.
them. Under those circumstances it’s really Jules Owchar — still had eight ends to recover. “There’s still lots of curling left in us. We’ve
disappointing, probably one of the top three or “I thought our team hung in there very well. had a good run, not only the last two years but
four worst breaks that I’ve had in my career. But I was really proud of the way we performed. I the last four years,” said Gushue. “I certainly
it happens,” said the 38-year-old from St. John’s think after that I thought you could really see expect there’s still going to be some highlights
whose team won the 2017 and 2018 Briers. Bottcher’s team’s spirit get higher, and they left in this team. But it just feels rotten right now
“We lost two games this week to Northern played incredible after that,” said Gushue. to end on that term, to end that way, the Brier
Brad Gushue reacts to his rock Ontario and Alberta where guys made incredible With the scored tied 2-2 in the eighth and run. I’m sure later on tonight, after we’ve had a
raises to beat us. I’d sleep easier tonight if I had Bottcher holding hammer, Gushue felt his team couple of beers, it might soften it a little bit but
which ‘picked’ in the second end. been beaten that way as opposed to a rock on the had to press for a steal. The plan appeared to that one’s going to sting.”
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3-4 Game
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Tankard Times Writer
second-end picked stone and just feels rotten right now to end that way, it again, we kept inching that back rock
an eighth-end punch-out sent to end the Brier run.” further back and it worked well from
Brendan Bottcher and Team For Bottcher it was a successful tale there.
Wild Card into the semifinal of the Tim of two ends. After the big break in two, “Brad was pushing hard for a force or
Hortons Brier, presented by AGI, and Bottcher, third Darren Moulding, second a steal and we got a coupe of half shots
ended Brad Gushue and Team Canada’s Brad Thiessen and lead Karrick Martin, out of him at the end and that was really
hopes for a record-tying third consecutive patiently waited for another chance and the game.”
championship. they got it in the eighth end. Moulding tried to downplay his role in
Bottcher emerged with a 7-2 win in the Moulding executed two superb the huge end, saying “that’s my job.”
Page playoff 3-4 game Saturday, sending picks of Gushue stones and Bottcher “I have to back (Bottcher) up once in a
them into Sunday’s semifinal. put the exclamation point on the end while. It felt good to make those shots. I
The pick came in the second end with a heavyweight punch-out of Team sat in the hack and looked. There wasn’t a
and was a huge turning point. Gushue’s Canada’s counter to score four for the very big piece of the rock, but I knew that
final stone picked halfway down the victory. it was the shot that we needed to win the
ice, leaving Bottcher a steal of one. “We got a bit of a rocky start (in game, so I wanted to take it on.”
Had Gushue made his shot, a straight- the end), but the big turning point was Gushue got their one back in the third
forward tap-back, he would have scored Darren’s pick and when he made that and the teams traded singles in the fifth
two. we felt we were slowly opening up the and sixth before Bottcher broke it open in Brendan Bottcher of Team
“Pick was the story of the game,” said four foot,” said Bottcher. “Then he made the eighth. Wild Card got a huge break.
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JOHN
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J ules Owchar likes to watch curling.
Any level of the game: Olympics,
world championships, Tim Hortons
Brier, school, kids …. the man just loves
the game and he loves helping players
become the best they can.
Yes, he’s best known as the coach for
Kevin Martin and Brad Gushue, skips who
between them have won two Olympic gold
medals, two world championships and six
Brier titles. But Owchar’s contribution to
curling goes far deeper than the elite level.
His resume includes an astonishing 34
college conference championships and two
national college titles with Northern Alberta
Institute of Technology, 24 Grand Slam
of Curling titles and 14 provincial men’s
championships.
It is a resume that earned him induc-
tion this week into the Canadian Curling
Hall of Fame.
He is to curling what Bill Belichick is
to football.
“From a results standpoint, absolutely,” Jules Owchar (centre) with two of his prize pupils — Brad Gushue (left) and Kevin Martin.
Highly decorated Owchar
agreed Gushue, here seeking a record-tying
third consecutive Brier title. “I don’t know
if there’s been a coach who’s won as much
JULES!
as him. Everybody looks at what he’s done
with our team and with Kevin and that’s
probably just the tip of the iceberg. What
curling coach
he’s done at NAIT, coaching there for a
number of years and the number of people supreme, and
one heck of
he’s worked through there, that’s probably
where the impact has come.”
Even though he continues to work with
a good guy!
elite curlers, the 74-year-old native of Lac
La Biche, Alta., has never strayed far from
the youngsters.
“As soon as I leave here I go to Fred- “You get the poor curlers to be the best, threw it totally different, to Marc Kennedy great times, you forget about them until you
ericton with my two teams for the college that’s always fun. You don’t get in a rut. One who definitely threw it differently. Made get together, and he brings them all up.”
championships,” he said. “I enjoy that. You time when I was teaching I had complete quite a few changes in Marc’s delivery over Gushue said Owcher is “a character, a
analyze, you see where they are and see if beginners, then I had my school teams and the years, but never got away from the way funny man and fun to be around” but one
they can improve and if you’re lucky enough then I would have Kevin in the evening, so I he throws it. You can make subtle changes who doesn’t often get out for dinner with
that they have some talent then they can go would go from one spectrum to the other, so but not the overall style of the athlete, yet the team.
higher up. Make them realize their poten- it keeps you sharp and it’s fun.” change enough… tweaking, or sometimes “He’s (at the rink) non-stop … he comes
tial. If they’re only good enough for club One of the hundreds, perhaps thousands, even total rebuild but not changing their here at nine o’clock in the morning and he’s
champions, great, if they can go into play- of curlers he has helped is Ben Hebert, style. And that’s something that can’t be here until the last rock. It’s unfortunate we
downs, great, and if you’re lucky enough to named this week as the all-time best lead taught, Jules had the knack.” don’t actually get to go out for dinner with him
get a Brad or a Kevin then you’re smiling.” by a TSN panel, whose resume includes But it’s not, Martin, Gushue and Hebert much at events like this because he’s working.”
And sometimes, it’s not about winning as Olympic gold, two world, three Brier and emphasize, just the on-ice stuff. There aren’t a lot of events that Owchar
much as it about just playing the game. one world junior championships. “He’s such a great guy, I love him, I miss can attend where he doesn’t run into some-
“This year there was this girl, we were “Well, I don’t know if Jules is as smart as him sometimes,” said Hebert. “On the way one he coached through the years. That, he
short a girl and she was just standing with Bill Belichick,” Hebert said with a chuckle. here we were sitting beside each other, says, if part of the enjoyment of his career.
some guy and I said do you curl? She said “He’s a mechanic wizard. He really makes laughing about all the card games, mostly And not surprising considering he’s
no. I said would you like to? She said yeah. sure you’re throwing the rock properly. He’ll the fights we had with Kevin Martin and coached so many curlers during his 40 years at
So you’ve never curled? I’ve never been in a say, Bennie, move your foot here, try to get Johnny Mo (Morris) in the room because NAIT and at the Kevin Martin curling acad-
curling rink. She came out and now I would your rock under you, line up a little bit like we were all so competitive playing cards. I emy which he’s been doing for about 20 years.
say she’s my third-best curler, just a natural, this, try throwing it like this, put your hand look at Jules as one of my life-long friends, a Martin says beyond Owchar’s well-
no bad habits and she loved it. on the rock a little differently. He was awe- great human being and I wish him nothing known ability to read rocks and ice, he
“That’s the fun part. She’s going to be a some for that sort of stuff.” but the best, not here this week winning, but brings a calmness to teams in “just the way
curler now for the rest of her life and that’s Martin said Owchar has the uncanny with everything else. he handles himself, the way he acts in the
the important thing.” ability to see something in a person’s deliv- “He’s one of the nicest guys, super dry locker room, he never gets excited that’s for
Owchar, who joined NAIT in 1969 as a ery that others don’t, and to fix it. sense of humour. When you get together sure. He’s always calm, cool, collected and
physical education instructor, scoffs at the “And not cookie-cutter deliveries. He’s and reminisce, have a whiskey with him, brings a peace to the team and his teams
Belichick comparison and says the best part of dealt with curlers like Don Walchuk who and Kevin, John and Marc, we had some generally play pretty solidly in front of him.”
his highly successful career is the fun he’s had
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POSITION: Skip
AGE: 38 (June 16, 1980, St. John’s)
FAMILY: Wife Krista; daughters Hayley
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OCCUPATION: Business Owner
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LIVES: Mount Pearl, N.L.
YEARS CURLED: 25
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POSITION: Vice-skip
AGE: 39 (January 1, 1980, Labrador
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RE/MAX CENTRE, ST. JOHN’S FAMILY: Wife Colette; sons Beckett (4),
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HISTORY OCCUPATION: Business Owner/
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LIVES: St. John’s
YEARS CURLED: 32
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AGE: 28 (February 18, 1990,
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TEAM CANADA (Gold) FAMILY: Partner Jocelyn Peterman
AT THE BRIER 2014: N/A OCCUPATION: Curler (Team Gushue)
LIVES: St. John’s
Last five years Last championship — Brad YEARS CURLED: 24
2018: Brad Gushue (10-1 Gushue (2018)
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2017: Kevin Koe (8-3 Silver) World titles — 1 (Brad
2016: Kevin Koe (8-3 Silver) Gushue 2018) Geoff
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AGE: 33 (November 28, 1985,
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AT THE BRIER Last championship — Brad OCCUPATION: Director, Marketing and
Last five years: Jacobs (2013) Channel Engagement (Northern Credit
Union)
2018: Brad Jacobs 8-4 Canadian titles — 5 LIVES: Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.
2017: Brad Jacobs 8-5 World titles — 2 (Al Hackner YEARS CURLED: 23
2016: Brad Jacobs 12-2 1982, 1985).
(Bronze) Other prominent male curl- Ryan
2015: Brad Jacobs 10-1 ers from Northern Ontario Harnden
(Silver) — Ian Tetley, Rick Lang. POSITION: Lead
AGE: 32 (June 28, 1986, Sault Ste. Marie,
Ont.)
FAMILY: Wife Jasmine
OCCUPATION: Sales Representative
(Lock City Dairies)
LIVES: Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.
YEARS CURLED: 28
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Ross Harstone 3-4 Game
Wild Card (Bottcher) ...... 010 010 041 x — 7
Sportsmanship Award Canada (Gushue).............*001 001 000 x — 2
Team Wild Card’s Darren WC SH P % CAN SH P %
Moulding (right) has been award- Martin 18 62 86 Walker 18 64 89
ed the Ross Harstone Sports- Thiessen
Moulding
18
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66
89
92
Gallant
Nichols
18
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90
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manship Award at this year’s Bottcher 17 63 93 Gushue 18 58 81
Tim Hortons Brier. The trophy is TOTALS 71 255 90 TOTALS 72 254 88
presented each year to the player
chosen by his peers as the curler 1-2 Game
in the Brier who best represents N. Ontario (Jacobs) ........ 001 010 02x x — 4
Harstone’s high ideals of good Alberta (Koe)....................*230 200 20x x — 9
sportsmanship, observance of
the rules, exemplary conduct and
curling ability. The award is voted NO SH P % ALTA SH P %
on by the players. Making the pre-
R. Harden 16 59 92 Hebert 16 51 80
Gallant 16 57 89 Flasch 16 50 78
sentation Saturday was Fry 16 59 92 Neufeld 16 56 88
Resby Coutts, Curling Canada’s Jacobs 16 36 56 Koe 16 60 94
Brendan Bottcher has had a great week at the Brier.
board of directors member. TOTALS 64 211 82 TOTALS 64 217 85TANKARD TIMES • March 10 • 2019 | PAGE 18
The
David St. Louis of Nunavut
ENVELOPES
took his lumps this week but
never complained.
. . . please! So, here we are, putting the wraps on an- the unranked teams hung in there with the big Houdini Award — That would be Al-
other Tim Horton Brier renewal that has been boys. We’re talking about guys like Jon Solbrg berta’s Kevin Koe who slipped out of the cuffs
one of the better ones, from the spectacular of the Yukon, the Odishaw brothers from New on several occassion to win games he probably
curling, to the wonderful volunteers and com- Brunswick, and Sturat Thompson of Nova should not have. He always seems to find a
mittee members. Scotia. They punched way above their weight way to win.
And keeping with tradition at the Tankard and gave some of the best teams in the world a Best quote — Brad Gushue of Team
Times, we’d like to pass out some awards as bloody nose. And good for them. Canada always gives thoughtful, intelligent
the event comes to a close. Former Tankard Good Sport Award — David St. Louis answers. Ontario Brier rookie Scott McDonald
Times editor Larry Wood annually wrote some- and his loveable losers from Nunavut. The old also had a lot of interesting things to say.
thing called his Hearts and Heartaches Awards, guys knew they were in over their heads at The high, hard one — There’s so many
and it’s something worth keeping. the Brier, but they gave it their best shot every of them today who can zing ‘em, it’s hard to
So, without further ado, the envelopes, game, took their lumps and never compained. pick one. But combining jet speed with ac-
please . . . They showed that just making it to the Brier curacy? Kevin Koe.
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The envelopes
House got some great reviews over
the week.
Best pub — Tavern United.
The Patch — Party Central all
FROM PAGE 18 week. The place really heated up on
the weekends and there was hardly a
whiskers around but the best
place to sit. Best thing about it? Just
Shot of the week — Two of belonged to Manitoba’s Reid Car-
a short walk indoors from the action
them, actually. There was Brad ruthers and Territories alternate
on the ice.
Gushue’s fingernail-thin pick Shadrach McLeod — black and
The weather — Brutal to start
against B.C. Jim Cotter and Mike dense.
the week. The frigid temperatures
McEwen’s angled raise takeout on Best backswing — Wesley
may have kept some people away
the button that won the game for Forget of Ontario. He’s no Peewee
early, but it warmed up later in the
Manitoba over Saskatchewan’s Kirk Pickering, but he gets the rock up
week, just in time for the Champion-
Muyres. Two memorable shots in a there.
ship Round and playoffs.
week full of them. Colour Crowd Award: The
The local papers — The
Hootin’ and Hollering Award array of colourful blankets, scarves,
Brandon Sun gave the Brier boffo
— He’s not as loud, as often, as he sweaters, toques and hats spectators
coverage, and of course both Winni-
used to be, but Quebec’s Martin Crete wore all week ran the gamut of the
peg papers, the Sun and Free Press,
can still get his decibles levels up. colour palate.
were all over it. You don’t get this
Hard Luck Award — Home- Best fans (other than those
kind of coverage unless the Brier is
town favouite Mike McEwen had cheering for Manitoba): No one
in a curling hotspot.
high hopes playing in front of has more fun at these things than
The venue — Are you kid-
friends and family this week, but fans from Saskatchewan.
ding? Westoba Place, part of the
the Manitoba skip couldn’t get any Curler most suited to doing
Keystone Centre, is a wonderful
traction after the first two games. stand-up comedy: Alberta lead
place to hold the Brier — or any
He struggled with his weight and, it Ben Hebert is a barrel of laughs and
other major curling event. Every-
looked at time, with his confidence. loves to turn on the crowd.
thing is there under one roof, and
But he made it to the Championship The ice — The players found it
with the hotel attached, there’s no
Round, so not all was lost. tricky, at times, but there’s noth-
need to step outdoors.
Best alternate — Tom Sallows ing wrong with a little adversity
The transportation — Some
only played in one game for Team out there. Curlers at this level are
never needed it, but those that did
Canada but he skipped and looked spoiled with the wonderful surface
remarked about the efficiency of the
sharp. That didn’t look possible a they get to play on, so hats off to the
operation, and the pleasant drivers
few weeks ago after he suffered icemaking crews.
who were only too happy to get
second-degree burns in a kitchen Best eatery — Hard to beat
people around town.
accident at home that left him with The Keg, which is just across the
The volunteers — Can’t hold It was a tough week for Manitoba’s Mike McEwen
nasty blisters on his hands. street from Westoba Place, and they
the Brier without them. Thanks a
Facial hair — Lots of chin do great steaks, but Brown’s Social who could never get his mo-jo going.
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5 2
LEFT: Ontario’s Scott McDonald was a breath of fresh air.
ABOVE: Brandon turned out to be just the right size to host the Brier, and curling
fans from all over the country enjoyed its western hospitality.
Takeaways from the Brier
3 4 5
Ontario Separation Manitoba 3-win teams Brandon
It was a coming-out party There was a bit of After many years of the
Curling fans in Westoba Three cheers for the
for the brainiacs from separation anxiety going Tim Hortons Brier in
Place were bursting at three-win teams. To the
Ontario who announced on this week as the top six large venues, attendance
the seams ready to cheer Yukoners for making it
their presence to teams quickly separated dwindled in the cavernous
lustily for the hometown difficult on almost all the
Canadian curling followers themselves from the monstrosities. In the
team. Brandon native teams. The same goes
in fine fashion. Many on rest of the teams in the last few years the Brier
Mike McEwen gave them for the oldies from New
the circuit knew about preliminary pool. By the has returned to more
something to cheer about Brunswick who were a
Scott McDonald’s squad time they were done it also reasonably sized facilities
with the shot of the week tough out. They even
before the Brier. Now seemed inevitable who against Saskatchewan and it appears to be
held eight-end leads over paying off. Brandon is the
everybody else does as the final four would be in the first round, but the Alberta and Canada, and
they almost pushed their before the Championship squad struggled with two perfect small-town venue.
beat a good Ontario team. It’s in the middle of curling
way into the final four Pool began play. They key losses — surrendering And the young guys from
giving scares to many were quickly confirmed, a five-point lead to Wild country and the Westoba
Nova Scotia showed they Place/Keystone Centre/
teams and beating 2014 even who would be Card and losing to Yukon are bright lights in curling’s
Olympic gold medallist playing who, before the — and inconsistency Canad Inns combination is
future. hard to beat.
Brad Jacobs. final round. killing them.
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ABOUT STU BROWN
5. Started
1. Born in announcing 6. Toured the world as a
Ottawa 3. Took theatre in Toronto live shows professional announcer
in 1981
4. Studied opera
for three years
7. Did a 28 US
tour dates
2. Studied mime with Sheryl
in high school Crow and
Ziggy Marley
20. Loves the curling 8. Had beer and pizza with an
community’s best fans unknown band Maroon 5
19. Announced a high dive show
in South Africa and Bermuda
9. Announced
the Budweiser
aerial ski show
18. Is now the national whisky at the 2002
consultant for Johnnie Olympics in
Walker and the single malts Salt Lake City
17. Favourite 10. Been the MC of
candy is curling since 2002
Smarties
11. First event Scotties
was in Brandon, MB
15. A grandfather
of two
16. Has a 25-pound 12. Became the first
Maine Coon cat Canadian ambassador for
Johnnie Walker in 2003
14. Enjoys a good cigar.
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