2009 Tim Hortons Brier - Tankard Times - Day 3

Issue Monday, March 9, 2009 Issue#3, #1, Saturday, March 7, 2009

TANKARD TIMES OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE 2009 TIM HORTONS BRIER

The brushers were working hard at the Brier Sunday.

Quebec始s Eric Sylvain and Jean Gagnon bend the brushes on skip Jean-Michel Menard始s shot.

Right, it始s Alberta始s Marc Kennedy and Ben Hebert creating friction.

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Old familiar faces on top Martin, Howard start 3-0

By LARRY WOOD Tankard Times Editort Editor

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P.E.I. skip Rod MacDonald (front) pulled off an upset win over Manitoba.

nd there it was, after Day Two of the 80th Brier. Like an echo at the Pengrowth Saddledome. Martin and Howard. Or, Howard and Martin.

The two overwhelming favourites in this field each posted a pair of victories on Sunday and remaining the only unbeaten entries in the 12-team round-robin affair that will endure through Thursday night.

Martin exploded for a three-pointer midway through his morning assignment that led to a 7-5 conquest of Quebec’s Jean-Michel Menard, then exploded to steal seven points in an 11-3 rout of winless Saskatchewan rookie Joel Jordison of Moose Jaw. Howard backed up a 9-2 afternoon rout of Northern Ontario’s Mike Jakubo with a 7-4 nightshift win over Sean Geall of British Columbia.

SEE “We may have come out a little bit flat in the middle of RESULTS, the night when we started Page 12 this game,” quipped Martin after the spring-forward morning tussle. “But we woke up around the normal time, around 9 and, then we came on a bit when we found out it was 10.

“They didn’t change the clock when we walked out here, it was 6:42. At least they could have changed the clock, made us feel better.”

The Alberta skip was happy with the three scalps collected so far.

“We had to play Russ (Howard), then Menard, then Saskatchewan, so that’s a real tough start. You drop two of those three, boy, you’re in trouble. It’d be a tough grind down the stretch. In a field like this you take the wins when you can but if you falter early it’s dangerous” Trailing 3-2 in the fifth, Alberta hit for a triple and followed it up with a vital sixth-end steal.

“Menard curled great today,” Martin

allowed. “He drew the button I don’t know how many times. He would have beaten us had we not been sharp. But it’s a long week and the field is tough. There are no breaks here. Guys are pounding every time.”

Howard, likewise, was expounding his liking for “a fast start”. But he was momentarily rattled in the evening exchange when B.C. skip Geall issued a shot-of-the-week contender, an off-the-wall double for a tying deuce in the fifth end.

“I thought, I guess we’re going to have to earn this,” admitted Howard.

“What a pistol! Here we were controlling the game and now it’s tied. Fortunately we got a deuce after that, then a steal. But, hey, in this game everybody’s allowed to make shots.

People are going to want to knock us off, that’s understandable. That’s what they should feel.”

Four teams clung to contention with a single loss — Manitoba’s Jeff Stoughton, Newfoundland’s Brad Gushue, Quebec’s Menard and veteran Rod MacDonald of Prince Edward Island.

MacDonald performed one of the day’s real upsets, hitting with the hammer in the last end for a 6-5 duke against Stoughton who had won twice Saturday.

“We played it tough, made the smart calls and figured if we kept it close we’d have a chance,” assessed MacDonald. “The key was the seventh end when we stole a deuce when Jeff missed the double. I thought he had it.

“We have two wins in three starts, that’s going to give us confidence.”

MacDonald estimated his biggest previous Brier win was against Ed Werenich in 1981 at Halifax.

“That was a few years ago,” he quipped.

“But this was a different game, different era, different guy. It’s always fun coming out and playing these guys. That’s what we come here for.”

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PIN COLLECTING

It’s about people, pins, curling

By LINDSEY WALLIS Special to The Tankard Times Editor

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or Roger Degague of the Winnipeg Pin Collectors Club, the Tim Hortons Brier is about people, pins, and curling, in that order. He gets to see old friends and meet new people from all across the country.

It’s just like a family reunion.

Degague has been to 15 Briers — Calgary is his 10th in a row — and has collected more than 5,000 pins. “It’s a real fun thing to do. Coming to the Brier is something my wife and I enjoy doing together. I’ve made friends from St. John’s, Newfoundland, to Vancouver . . . all these guys are like extended family,� says Degague.

Most traders collect a variety of pins, ranging from the Olympics to sporting pins, as well as media and company pins, but

Degague sticks to Canadian curling pins exclusively.

He was a curler for many years and got started trading pins in his thirties. He now has every Brier pin from 1942 to the present, with the exception of one silver pin from the 1971 Brier. Dagague also collects pins from the Scotties Tournament of Hearts and Canadian Olympic Trials. “Curling fans are really special people.

Curling has always been a real social sport, you always took it from the ice to the bar,� he says.

Degague says he doesn’t get to see much curling at the Brier, but enjoys meeting the different people who also collect and trade.

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Roger Degague collects pins, and avid curling fans just wear them.

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Collectors

“The longer you collect, the less you need, and what you need is harder to get.�

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Degague says his pins are only worth their weight in scrap metal, unless someone is interested in buying, but added that he wouldn’t part with his Brier collection for less than $10,000. He estimates that he has spent more than $50,000 over the years on travel expenses to the Brier and buying pins that he can’t find elsewhere.

Fellow trader Mark Mogen was originally a coin collector but started trading pins at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics. “I guess I was attracted to pieces of metal,� he says. He is determined to collect all the Brier’s sponsor pins this week. “You do whatever you can to complete your sets,� he says. “It takes a little creativity and a lot of determination to find all of the pins because many of them aren’t given out to members of the public.�

Mogen’s strategy is to start trading early because by the end of the week most of the pins have been claimed and there is little left to trade. “You have to strike while the iron is hot,� he says.

Mogen displays the sponsor pins he has

— Collector Roger Degague

Mark Mogen started collecting pins at the Ęź88 Calgary Olympics and pictures of the ones he is missing in the hopes that a passerby may have one he is missing and either donate or trade it.

His secret in making good trades? “You have to show a little emotion (about a pin you want), but you can’t show too much because then the price will go up,� he says.

At every event, there are rare pins that are a challenge to find. This year, one of Mogen’s conquests will hopefully be the “Tankard pin� that is only given to participants, dignitaries and the executive committee. The only way to get one is to become friendly with one of the select few who

receive it.

But that’s why Mogen loves these events so much. “It’s about the people you meet,� he says.

Every collector has a holy grail pin that he or she has been trying to find for years. For Mogen, it is the 1988 Olympic women’s curling team pin that was only given to members of the team. “I always hope I’ll run across one,� he says.

Degague would love to get his hands on a 1927 Gold Heart Brier pin. That would be a feat, though, as there were only 12 made and an offer of $50,000 for four of them was recently turned down. “The longer you collect, the less you need and what you need is harder to get,� Degague said. “It’s competitive but it’s a fun thing to do.�

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Steven Howard (second from left) won his first Brier game Sunday morning but will require 107 more to catch the old man, Russ (second from right) whoĘźs the BrierĘźs No. 1 winner. The men are flanked by mom Wendy (left). and daughter Ashley Howard, all of Moncton, N.B. Yellowknife and former champion Mark Dacey of Halifax.

Koe hammered Dacey 8-4 in the afternoon in the only Sunday match for either team.

From Page 2 “They struggled early,� said Koe. “We had Stoughton said his team failed miserably to some good chances to put him away early but place rocks in the right positions.

Mark made a couple of dandies to keep himself “They were very conservative and that fail- in it. The ends were set up but we couldn’t ure cost us,� he said. “We came out pretty flat close them off.� and they played pretty well and we got bit. We This is one Territories team that doesn’t shy were rolling out, a half-inch here and a half- away from aggressive tactics. inch there. He made great shots in the last five “You have to play aggressive because you ends and we didn’t.� know all these teams are going after you,� Koe Olympic gold-medallist Gushue rebounded mused. “If you try to run and hide you’re not from a last-gasp loss to Ontario on Saturday going to do too well here. I think we play betwith a 10-6 win over B.C. and an 8-5 victory ter against the top-ranked teams. We know over Mike Jakubo of Northern Ontario. we’re going to have to play our best.� “We had a little talk and decided to chalk it He reiterated his team’s goal is to match the up to a big choke,� he said of his team’s late- best-ever Territories record of eight wins turned night Saturday postmortem. “You can go two in by Whitehorse’s Don Twa in 1975. ways after a loss like that, you can grind back “We think we have the team to do it. It’s just or you can fold it and we’re not the type of a matter of the four of us putting it together at people to fold.� the same time.� “We had solid performances and we were Dacey was less than delighted with the very good with hammer,� assessed Gushue on Bluenose effort.

Sunday night. “But Mike (Jakubo) made some “It wasn’t real pretty,� he said through great shots to keep it close. His shot in the clenched teeth. third end is going to be a contender for shot-of“This is a marathon, not a sprint, so you the-week. He made an around-the-horn thing, want to get some momentum going as the he hit one just out of the rings, caromed over week goes on. You usually need a spark someand hit our third-shot rock and then hit our where to get it going. If you play extremely first-shot rock and spun over behind our sec- well early it’s sometimes hard to maintain ond-shot rock. Luckily for us he remained half- that. So we don’t have to worry about that open and we made a real good back-line tap to part. But it’s still a matter of getting a spark get our deuce. But it looked like we were going going, whether it be a three-ender somewhere to score three or four.� or a big steal or just a big shot or a big runThe Newfs assumed a 3-1 lead at that point back. If you keep your head down and keep and never looked back. working at it there’s a good chance that someMenard bounced back from his morning set- thing will happen but this is a game of rolls back to shock veteran Russ Howard of New and we need to get on one.�

Brunswick 10-3 on the late shift.

In other sunrise session, Howard’s Howard and Geall were 1-2 for three outings Herringchokers pummelled Saskatchewan 9-4. and tied with Jamie Koe’s Polars from

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Tetley had nerves of ‘steal’ in ‘75

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coring a point (or more) without the advantage of last rock is one of the most difficult challenges in curling, and depending on the timing, stealing an end can be a gamechanger or even a championship-decider.

In the 1975 Brier at Fredericton, Ontario’s Bill Tetley-skipped team took stealing ends to almost larcenous levels when it scored no less than 32 points over the week without the benefit of last rock.

Classic In so doing Tetley Briers managed to win the Brier for Northern Ontario, pulling off what legendary curling writer Larry Wood of Calgary dubbed the “Great New Brunswick Raid of 1975.”

Alex ROBERTS

This Brier shootout featured an evenlymatched field, although Harvey Mazinke’s Saskatchewan team (champions in 1973), and the teams from Alberta (Tom Reed), and Quebec (Jim Ursel) were expected to challenge for the championship.

The Fredericton Brier also marked the debut of a team from the Territories.

Skipped by the cigar-smoking Don Twa, the rookie province finished with an amazing 8-3 record — including an 8-4 win over perennial Brier champion Manitoba.

Also included in the colourful field was future Hockey Night in Canada announcer Bob Cole — although his 1-10 Newfies were hardly a factor.

Without a clear favourite, the round robin was a close-knit affair, with no team able to get away from the pack. By midweek, the Tetley team had its noses just ahead with a 4-1 record, including five stolen points in an 11-5 fourth-round beating of Alberta, and a three-point steal in the last end to beat B.C. 8-6 in draw five.

In all, Tetley’s comeback kids would go on to steal six of their eventual nine wins, and twice stole three-enders at key moments setting up come-from-behind victories.

Going into the last draw, the field was so tightly bunched that a two-or even a threeway playoff was possible between Northern Ontario, Alberta and the surprising Territories team. However, a win by Northern Ontario over Newfoundland would clinch it. (The round robin decided the champion in those days.)

Heading into the final tussle, few expected Newfoundland with its 1-9 record to put up much of a fight. However, true to form, Tetley’s crew got behind early, and was down 4-0 after three ends. Two ends later, Northern Ontario had rallied for a 5-4 lead, thanks to a three-point steal in the fifth.

Going into the last end, Northern Ontario was still hanging on to a one-point lead but with the hammer, and looked home free. But two great draws by Newfie skip

Cole, had his team counting two with rocks at the back of the four-foot, and the edge of the eight-foot.

Having clawed and finessed his way to the cusp of winning Northern Ontario’s second Brier, Tetley was not to be denied.

He threw a near-perfect final rock, and when it pulled up full in the four-foot, barely bumping the Newfoundland counter, the celebrations began.

It was Northern Ontario’s second championship — the other being 1950 — and a salutary reminder for the rest of Canada that there were good reasons why there were two teams from Ontario in the Brier.

And one should not forget, too, the great performance put in by Don Twa’s Yukon team. In skipping his expansion outfit to second place, Twa set a high standard for future Yukon-Territories teams that never has been matched.

Alex Roberts is a freelance writer based in Halifax

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The Wood file (A portion of this column appears in the March issue of The Curling News).

EDITOR Larry Wood ASSOCIATE EDITOR Dave Komosky PHOTOGRAPHER Mike Burns Jr. PUBLISHED BY The Calgary Herald

Future Briers may not include 10 ends.

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ighly intriguing if annoyingly meagre word has been seeping out from under the closed doors of Canadian curling’s inner sanctum in beautiful downtown Cumberland, Ont. Sort of like the slither of smoke you pick up before a major conflagration in the next room.

It could be translated to suggest that if you’ve been a long-time fan of the Brier, you’d better get ready for some big changes from the Brier as you know it.

Oh, not this week at the Calgary Saddledome.

Or next year at the Metro Centre in Halifax. But after that?

Post 2010?

Buckle up!

The deep thinkers who conjure up great thoughts in Cumberland have been working overtime.

All right, so we all know that the Brier, in all its incarnations — Macdonald’s, Labatt, Nokia, Tim Hortons — has a long, varied and colourful history. A long, varied and colourful history that proves it has few peers in the realm of national winter sport showcase events.

For the most part, the old if-itain’t-broke-don’t-fix-it axiom long has applied. And for good reason.

CCA wisemen take note: Don’t mess up a good thing.

It’s true that, over the years, there has been minimal tinkering, and mostly with some success.

Fourteen-end games, for example, were too long. So were 12end games, probably, although the people who played the game at the time weren’t aware of the excessive length.

Larry WOOD

Fewer teams, eight ends: this event may get major facelift Nobody was aware of it, in fact, until the World Curling Federation came along, populated primarily with a load of self-styled panjandrums equipped back then with about as much knowledge of rocks, brooms and ice as you’d have found in a Tajikistan backwater.

Still, the game became a 10-end championship contest for the world to see in 1973 at GarmischPartenkirchen, and for Canada to see in 1977 in the cavernous Montreal Olympic Velodrome.

And it has turned out to be the right move.

The status quo remains but in 1999 the WCF suddenly started making overtures to reduce the game again — this time to a frivolous eight ends. The impetus here was the International Olympic Committee, most members of which wouldn’t have known a curling rock from the Blarney Stone at the time. Or a sheet of ice from a playground for penguins.

Well, it was shot down in ’99 but, at the same time, it was hinted that it wasn’t the end of the issue, partly because it was the

TV people who’d placed the burr in the IOC’s bonnet in the first place. Sort of like politicians who keep returning bills for more consideration of passage in government chambers until they get their own way.

Ah yes, television! That saviour of everything sporting. No question it has been a boon to curling, from its early days of rudimentary coverage to its current wall-towall, high-definition inanities complete with increasing commercial stoppages, boring interviews and time-consuming introductory

and elementary lessons in geography (e.g. Vic Rauter shivering in front of a blizzard-blown grain elevator at minus-20 expounding on the wonders of beautiful uptown Brandon).

And for all this we must reduce the length of the curling game?

Now, a decade beyond ’99, you’ve seen the so-called elite game swallowed up by sports management people more interested in promoting commercial products and TV time than the sport itself. You’ve seen some elite players join an infamous Brier boycott in search of larger paydays. And eight-end games have become the norm on the Slam circuit.

It remains arguable that (a) the boycott was an overall success or failure or simply a success in the view of a few elite teams looking to get rich, (b) the Slam circuit has been a success beyond the made-for-TV realm, (c) eight-end games have been embraced by anyone other than a certain segment of elite teams and TV producers.

But, believe it, another look at eight-end championship games is on the CCA agenda postOlympics. Says here, of course, that any move in that direction would be a huge mistake. But you may want to consider and judge for yourself.

For those of you who missed attending either the Scotties, Brier or world men’s championship in 2007, it may be interesting to note a survey was taken at all three events on the popularity of reducing the length of the championship game to eight ends.

For the record, 56 per cent of all Brier participants rejected an outright move to eight ends, 67 per cent of Scotties participants were not in favour of the change and 46 per cent of world men’s competitors turned thumbs down while another 14 per cent were undecided or professed no preference.

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Profiles: New Brunswick HOME CLUB: MONCTON AND GAGE GOLF AND CURLING ASSOCIATION, OROMOCTO

FACTS

Russ Howard SKIP

AGE: 53 RESIDEN CE: Mon cton FAMILY: Married to Wendy; son Stev en, daughte r Ashley EMPLOY MENT: R eal estate a gent, Re/Max HE IS: In nte friendly, nse, fun LOVES C URLING BECAUS E: It is a team ga me.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: Tw world an o d Olympic gold.

James Gratton THIRD NICKNAME: Jimmy the Kid AGE: 34 RESIDENCE: Oromocto FAMILY: Married to Lynn, son Drew, 2.

EMPLOYMENT: Customer service agent, Air Canada HE IS: Sense of humour, sexy, competitive LOVES CURLING BECAUSE: The competition and the people you meet in the sport

THE PROVINCE Population: 757,100 Area: 72,908 sq km sq Joined Confederation: 1867 Motto: “Hope restored” Capital City: Fredericton Laguages Spoken: 86% English, 31.4% French, 0.6% other Principal Products: lumber and other forestry products, potatoes, lead NEW BRUNSWICK AT THE BRIER Last five years: 2008 — James Grattan, Oromocto (2-9) 2007 — Paul Dobson, Saint John (1-10) 2006 — James Grattan, Oromocto (5-6) 2005 — Wade Blanchard, Saint John (3-8) 2004 — Russ Howard, Moncton (7-5) Last championship: None.

Canadian titles: None.

World titles: None.

DID YOU KNOW. . .

Magnetic Hill, located outside the city limits of Moncton, is an optical illusion. Legend has it someone parked their car at the site and it rolled uphill.

St. John is the oldest incorporated city in Canada.

Steven Howard

Jason Vaughn

SECOND/LEAD

SECOND

SECOND

AGE: 39 RESIDENCE: Saint John FAMILY: Wife Tammy, daughter Ashley, 11; son Joshua, 8.

EMPLOYMENT: Network marketer HE IS: Loving, patient, caring.

AGE: 31 RESIDENCE: Saint John PARTNER: Wife Ronda, daughter Taylor, 3.

EMPLOYMENT: Counter salesman Liteco Inc. HE IS: Quiet, confident, dedicated

AGE: 24 RESIDENCE: Moncton EMPLOYMENT: Green Side Up Lawn Care.

HE IS: High definition, intense, friendly LOVE CURLING BECAUSE: Get to play with four great guys.

Peter Case

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Profiles: Manitoba HOME CLUB: CHARLESWOOD CURLING CLUB, WINNIPEG

Jeff Stoughton

FACTS SKIP

AGE: 45 RESIDEN CE: Winn ipeg FAMILY : Wife H a li, son Riley (1 (14), dau 7), Cole ghter Elizabeth (5 EMPLOY ) MENT: A ir Canada, co-ordin a tor finan cia ness sys l busitems HE IS: D edicated , intense, kind LOVES C UR BECAUS LING E: You get to m eet many fas so cin ing peop atle.

Kevin Park THIRD NICKNAME: K-Park AGE: 44 RESIDENCE: Winnipeg FAMILY: Wife Lynda, daughter Kalynn (20), son Brandt (15).

EMPLOYMENT: Database manager, Delvi Data HE IS: Focused, intense, caring LOVES CURLING BECAUSE: It's a great game both mentally and physically. In addition, there are great people.

THE PROVINCE Population: 1,150,000 Area: 647,797 sq km Moto: “Glorious and free” Joined Confederation: 1871 Capital City: Winnipeg Languages Spoken: 71.3% English, 4.3% French, 18.6% other 5.8% bilingual Principal Products: Wheat, nickel, petroleum MANITOBA AT THE BRIER Last five years: 2008 — Kerry Burtnyk, Winnipeg (6-5) 2007 — Jeff Stoughton, Winnipeg (9-4) 2006 — Jeff Stoughton, Winnipeg (6-5) 2005 — Randy Dutiaume, Winnipeg (8-5) 2004 — Brent Scales, Swan River (3-8) Canadian titles — 26

Rob Fowler SECOND AGE: 33 RESIDENCE: Brandon PARTNER: Ericka Smith KIDS: None . . . yet EMPLOYMENT: Fowler Pontiac-Buick-GM Ltd. HE IS: Motivated, loyal, optimistic LOVES CURLING BECAUSE: Family tradition CAREER HIGHLIGHT: 2007 Brier, Hamilton

World titles — 5 (Don Duguid 1970-71, Orest Meleschuk 1972, Kerry Burtnyk 1995, Jeff Stoughton 1996.

DID YOU KNOW. . .

Winnipeg has held the ‘Slurpee Capital of the World’ title for six years in a row, gulping 400,000 of the semi-frozen soft drinks per month.

Steve Gould LEAD NICKNAME: Tick Man AGE: 36 RESIDENCE: Headingley, Man. FAMILY: Wife Fran, sons Nathan (6), Rylan (3).

EMPLOYMENT: Self-employed HE IS: A fun guy LOVES CURLING BECAUSE: Enjoys seeing the world

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STANDINGS Alberta (Martin) Ontario (G. Howard) Manitoba (Stoughton) NL (Gushue) P.E.I. (MacDonald) Quebec (Menard) B.C. (Geall) N.B. (R. Howard) NWT/Y (Koe) Nova Scotia (Dacey) N. Ontario (Jakubo) Sask. (Jordison)

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DRAW SCHEDULE TODAY

LINESCORES SUNDAY DRAW 3 8:30 a.m.

N.B. (R. Howard) 101 203 011 x — 9 Sask. (Jordison) 020 010 100 x — 4 S P % S P % N.B. 70 237 85 SASK. 72 224 78 Alberta (Martin) 101 031 010 x — 7 Quebec (Menard) 020 100 101 x — 5 S P % S P % ALTA. 79 277 88 QUE. 80 254 79

Skip Brad Gushue (front) gives his delivery a good, long look N.S.

S P % 72 211 73

Ontario (G. Howard) N. Ontario (Jakubo) S P ONT. 63 235

NL

010 110 502 x — 10 301 001 010 x — 6 S P % S P % 71 235 83 B.C. 72 243 84

Manitoba (Stoughton) PEI (MacDonald) S P MAN. 80 276

201 000 002 x — 5 020 010 200 1 — 6 % S P % 86 PEI 80 252 79

Nova Scotia (Dacey) NWT/Y (Koe)

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300 401 01x x — 9 020 000 00x x — 2 % S P % 93 N. ONT. 63 195 77

DRAW 5 6 p.m.

DRAW 4 1 p.m.

NL (Gushue) B.C. (Geall)

NWT/Y

Quebec (Menard) 100 204 03x x — 10 N.B. (R. Howard) 001 010 10x x — 3 S P % S P % QUE. 64 230 90 N.B. 64 211 82

B.C. (Geall) Ontario (G. Howard) S P B.C. 78 253

010 020 010 x — 4 002 102 101 x — 7 % S P % 81 ONT. 77 282 92

N. Ontario (Jakubo) NL (Gushue) S P N. ONT. 78 234

010 010 102 x — 5 102 102 020 x — 8 % S P % 75 NL 76 266 68

Sask. (Jordison) 001 001 10x x — 3 Alberta (Martin) 130 240 01x x — 11 S P % S P % NWT/Y 64 188 73 ALTA. 64 227 89

SHOOTING PERCENTAGES (CUMULATIVE) Skip Third Second Lead TEAM

N. Ont.

B.C.

Alta.

Sask.

58 68 77 82 71

74 86 75 91 82

86 83 94 91 88

67 78 74 86 76

Ont. Man. (After Draw 4) 89 86 91 90 88 87 89 91 89 88

Que.

N.B.

PEI

N.S.

79 78 87 84 82

84 86 81 86 83

77 79 79 81 79

72 75 77 81 76

NL NWT/Y 83 76 78 86 81

68 74 76 80 75

MONDAY Draw 6 8:30 a.m.

A — Alta. vs. Y/NWT B — N.B. vs. N.S. C — Sask. vs. PEI D —Que. vs. Man. Draw 7 1 p.m.

A — N.S. vs. N. Ont. B — Y/NWT vs. NL C — Man. vs. B.C. D — PEI vs. Ont. Draw 8 6 p.m.

A — Ont. vs. Sask B — B.C. vs. Que. C — NL vs. Alta.

D — N. Ont. vs. N.B. TUESDAY Draw 9 8:30 a.m.

A — NL vs. Que. B — N. Ont. vs. Sask.

C — Ont. vs. N.B. D — B.C. vs. Alta.

Draw 10 1 p.m.

A — N.B. vs. Man. B — Alta. vs. PEI C — Que. vs. N.S. D — Sask. vs. Y/NWT Draw 11 6 p.m.

A — PEI vs. B.C. B — Man. vs. Ont. C — Y/NWT vs. N. Ont. D — N.S. vs NL

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ROAD TO THE TIM HORTONS BRIER

Howard’s win with son at side ‘cool’ Veteran Russ Howard may be 53, with a record 13 Briers under his belt, to say nothing of a record 107 wins in a record 163 matches, but he still considers a trip to the big show real “cool�.

This time, the excitement of heading for his record 14th Brier skipping assignment is partly generated by his young son Steven’s inclusion in the five-man team that prevailed in the New Brunswick championship at Saint John. “Every time you win, you think it’s the best, but this one is very sweet,� Howard told Dave MacLean of Canada East News Service in the wake of an 8-6 win over Rick Perron of Moncton in the championship final. “The coolest thing is that I won it with my son.�

Nevertheless, Howard says his sixth crown as a Herringchoker after eight trophies as Ontario champ with his brother Glenn, is another kind of thrill, too. And he’s eager to get play his game on Tuesday, March 10 at 8:30 a.m., when he’ll lock horns with his brother’s Ontario powerhouse in what surely

NEW BRUNSWICK (Combined 20 previous appearances) will mark the most celebrated battle of brothers in Brier history.

The next day at 1 p.m. he’ll be renewing acquaintances with his Olympic skip Gushue.

That’ll be another collision that bears scrutiny.

The draw, however, didn’t do Russ any favours.

He opened with Alberta, Saskatchewan and Quebec and has Nova Scotia today. Like, yikes!

Howard has re-united with James Grattan at third, playing out of Grattan’s home base at Oromocto. Steven is listed as the second with

Peter Case at lead and Jason Vaughan as the alternate. “James has won the Tankard on his own three times, so for him to move back to vice for me is quite a compliment,� Howard said.

Grattan had to retool his roster after last year’s Brier appearance RUSS HOWARD and he made a call to the Howard household, but not because he wanted to recruit Russ. “Jason, Pete and I have developed a relationship over the last few years where we’ve discovered that we had a core of three guys who really had the same goals and the same mindset,� Grattan told MacLean. “Mike Kennedy wanted to scale back his commitment so we were looking for someone

who wanted to make one long-term . . . and we thought of Steve. “That’s when we found out that Russ and Steve come as a package, so we had to take them both,� he added with a laugh. “Russ and I have just always had a chemistry and we’ve also had a lot of success. Over the summer, the more we all thought about it, it just made so much sense. We took advantage of the situation.�

The champs might have to make use of the five-man rotation more than usual at the Brier because Howard has a broadcast contract with TSN. He is expected to help anchor the coverage of Brier morning draws.

Howard’s 5-2 record was tops in the eightteam provincial round robin, suggesting a highly-competitive grouping.

Charles Sullivan of Saint John gained a semi-final berth due to round-robin wins over Perron and Terry Odishaw of Moncton. All three finished 4-3.

Perron eliminated Odishaw 9-7 in an extra end, then nailed down an 8-7 extra-end win over Sullivan to reach the final.

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ROAD TO THE TIM HORTONS BRIER

Menard last man standing in big field A total of 20 teams formed two 10-team round-robin events in the monstrous Quebec provincials at Valleyfield but 2006 champion Jean-Michel Menard battled his way through the gauntlet to record consecutive suddendeath wins over former champions Guy Hemmings of Montreal and Martin Ferland of Trois-Rivieres.

Back with the identical lineup that managed only four wins last year at Regina — boisterous-voiced third Martin Crete, long-time second Eric Sylvain and veteran lead Jean Gagnon — Menard won six in a row, then suffered an 8-5 setback to Serge Reid of Kenogami and was faced with beating Hemmings 5-3 and Daniel Bedard of Lacolle 7-4 in the last two rounds in order to assure playoff participation.

Operating out of the Etchemin Curling Club in St-Romauld, across the St. Lawrence from Quebec City, Menard (8-1) joined Hemmings (8-1) as survivors of the

QUEBEC (Combined 13 previous appearances) one round-robin segment while Ferland (81) and Pierre Charette (6-3) of Thurso topped the other.

Following a huge complement of six elimination games in a convoluted playoff process, Ferland whipped Menard in the Page One-Two, Hemmings clobbered Reid 8-1 in the Page Three-Four and Menard dumped Hemmings 8-3 in the semi-final.

In the final, Menard cracked a killer four

in the seventh end to break up a 4-4 tie and launched himself back to the Brier. It ended 9-6 with Menard boasting a 10-2 record.

Hemmings matched Menard’s 10-2 record while Ferland was 9-2 and Reid was 8-4.

Martin Roy of Montreal turned in a 7-5 record, Daniel Bedard of Lacolle and Charette were 6-4 and Simon Dupuis of Thurso was 6-5.

Veteran Ted Butler of Buckingham was 55 alongside Francois Gagne of Montreal. At 4-5 were Robert Desjardins of Chicoutimi, John Stewart of Valle1yfield and MarcAndre Chartrand of Noranda.

Sebastien Robillard of Montreal won three of nine outings as did George Tardif of Rimouski. Tail-ending it at 2-7 were teams skipped by Jean-Pierre Venne of Laval, Evan Mooney of Lennoxville, Denis Laflamme of Sept-Isles, Pierre Gervais of Trois-Rivieres and Christian Crete of St-Romauld.

Quebec skip Jean-Michel Menard.

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ROAD TO THE TIM HORTONS BRIER

Weird combination comes up a winner It may seem to be a weird combination — that of skip Sean Geall and vice-skip Brent Pierce. But it worked well enough at Maple Ridge last month to punch a Brier ticket for Geall, calm, cool and collected, and Pierce, a high-octane sort who won the world title in 2000 as Greg McAulay’s vice-skip.

The 34-year-old Geall and his lead Mark Olson are appearing in their first Briers here.

Second Kevin Recksiedler played the same position for Jay Peachey in 2004 at Saskatoon.

Coincidentally, it was Peachey’s team that bowed in the all-New Westminster final clash, 8-7 in an extra end when The Peach was hot on a draw and Geall didn’t require the 11th-end hammer. “I’ve been trying to get to the Brier since I started throwing rocks (21 years ago),� said the Surrey native and resident. Pierce told Lyndon Little of the Vancouver Sun that there has been compromise from both he and Geall to make this back-end combination work.

BRITISH COLUMBIA (Combined 3 previous appearances) “I think I’ve helped the team boost its intensity,� said Pierce. “And I’ve had to learn to provide a few more smiles from grumpy old Brent.�

The Geall team led the 10-team round-robin argument with a 7-2 record, losing only to grizzled Dennis Graber of Kamloops 7-3 at the outset and to McAulay 7-3 in the fifth round.

Thereafter, Geall won four in a row, shaded Graber 6-4 in the Page One-Two playoff and

then called a halt to Peachey’s hot streak in the overtime final. “I honestly thought we outchanced them,� said Peachey, who had the hottest team in the playoffs with six straight wins after losing four of its first six tilts. “But they best capitalized on their opportunities.�

Control swayed back and forth in the final match until Geall stole a single in the ninth when Peachey flashed. He managed a tying deuce in the 10th but couldn’t get the steal going in the extra exchange.

Defending champ Bob Ursel of Kelowna was a disappointing 4-5 in the round robin.

McAulay was 3-6. And veteran Rick Folk, a two-time Brier winner from another era, finished 6-4 and made it to the Page Three-Four match before bowing to Peachey.

Geall was 9-2, Peachey was 8-5 and Graber, with Brian Windsor handling last rocks, was 6-5.

Sean Geall: cool, calm and collected.

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Wood From Page 9 A total of 100 fans were polled at each event and the answer was more clear-cut. At the Brier in Hamilton 97 per cent of fans vetoed any idea of eight-end games. Ditto fans at the Ford Worlds in Edmonton. The score there was 97-3 against. And at the Scotties in Lethbridge, 88 per cent were against any reduction in the length of matches.

Whatever, a Brier full of eight-end matches isn’t the only matter of change on the plate of the powers-that-be.

There’s real and persistent thinking that the current Brier runs too long (nine days) and involves too many teams (12). And a number of solutions apparently are under study, none of which is possible to implement without mas

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sive alterations to the event structure.

Among other brainwaves, a new-look Brier could see less teams, and/or a reduced schedule and a lopping off of at least two days. This would necessitate some sort of relegation system whereby the bottom teams from the previous season would have to play off in advance to qualify for the main event.

It’s an idea that could be boom or bust for curling in the provinces/territories involved — boom if it resulted in producing more competition and interest at the provincial/territorial level and bust if it was found to completely kill interest in the sport and the Brier in the regions involved.

Another variation would see all 12 teams, plus possibly even a Team Canada, compete in the Brier but in two stages, with the bottom teams eliminating themselves by, say, half in the early stage before moving their survivors into a second stage involving the previous sea-

son’s top teams.

Still another possibility: A two-division Brier. Including a Team Canada. With team promotion and relegation annually, just like the system employed in British pro soccer.

The thinking behind the reduced size of the Brier goes with surveys that show even rabid fans won’t attend a complete event that stretches for more than a week. And, face it, who needs to do this when every draw is on national TV anyway? Never mind that nine or 10 sleeps away from the home fires is an expensive proposition, particularly these days.

Rumour persists that some sort of Team Canada concept definitely is in the works for post-Olympics Briers. But nobody at the CCA is commenting although it is known some favour the concept. But the official silence is deafening.

It’s too early, too, to determine whether or not a Northern Ontario entry would be in jeop-

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ardy if an automatic entry for a defending champion is embraced for the Brier. It’s doubtful the Moosies would be excluded. But it would depend, presumably, on the draw format adopted. A two-division concept would keep them in, for sure.

On one thing you can bet, however. There will be no more than four matches per draw.

The bottom line is, be prepared to enjoy this month’s Cowtown Brier and the always-great show they’re planning a year from now down in Bluenose country. And especially so if you happen to be a traditionalist.

Thereafter, you understand, you just might not recognize what you’re seeing in relation to your idea of a Brier.

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Brier Trivia Name the skip of the runner-up team at the 2005 Alberta men’s curling championship.

1. His hometown?

2. Everybody knows Alberta teams have won 23 Briers, but how many know Alberta teams also have been Brier runner-up on 14 occasions? Two other provinces also have produced a Brier-high 14 runner-up teams. Name the two provinces.

3. Of Alberta’s 14 runner-up teams, two were skipped by the same curler. Name him and his runner-up years. (Hint: He also won two Briers).

4. How about the Brier winners and their home

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QUESTION OF THE DAY:

towns in those years?

5. Of the 14 Alberta runner-up teams, four hailed from southern Alberta precincts. Name the four skips, their home towns and the years they finished second.

6. And the four skips who finished ahead of each?

7. How about the other eight Brier runner-up skips and their hometowns and years they were bridesmaids?

8. Name the skip of the last Alberta team to lose to Quebec and P.E.I. at the Brier in the same year.

9. The year and the Quebec and P.E.I. skips, if you please.

10. Name the last Brier year during which Alberta lost twice to Nova Scotia.

11. Who skipped Alberta and who skipped Nova Scotia?

12. Who won the Brier that year?

QofD: Jamie King.

1. Edmonton.

2. Saskatchewan and Ontario.

3. Hector Gervais was runner-up in 1962 and 1970.

4. Gervais lost to Ernie Richardson of Regina in 1962 and to Don Duguid of Winnipeg in 1970.

5. Art Hallonquist of Three Hills in 1932; Bobby Alexander of Calgary in 1935; Art Simpson of Bassano in 1952; Ed Lukowich of Calgary in 1983.

6. Jim Congalton of Winnipeg in 1932; Gordon Campbell of Hamilton in 1935; Billy

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7. Joe Heartwell of Rosetown in 1928, Bobby Munro of Edmonton in 1930, George Wanless of Edmonton in 1936, Cliff Manahan of Edmonton in 1938, Herb Olson of Edmonton in 1959, Pat Ryan of Edmonton in 1985, Kevin Martin of Edmonton in 1996, Randy Ferbey of Edmonton in 2004.

8. Pat Ryan.

9. 1987, Kevin Adams of Quebec, Ted MacFadyen of P.E.I. 10. 2004.

11. Randy Ferbey skipped Alberta and Mark Dacey skipped Nova Scotia.

12. Dacey.

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Here’s a Brier statistic that’s rarely mentioned: Most Brier games played.

Russ Howard, of course, has played in the most Briers so he should have played the most games. Right?

Of course.

Heading into the current rockfest, the New Brunswick skip has played in 13 Briers and skipped 163 games.

Bernie Sparkes of B.C. and Alberta has played in the second-most games — 129, and the second-most Briers — 12.

Howard’s brother Glenn, currently playing

in his 11th Brier, has also played in 129 games. He’s already left Sparkes in the dust and the two Howards soon will be running away with this record.

Following the top three: Rick Lang, Northern Ontario, 121 games.

Pat Ryan, Alberta, B.C.; Ed Werenich, Ontario, 120 games.

Kevin Martin, Alberta, 113 games.

Al Hackner, Northern Ontario, 106 games.

Garnet Campbell, Saskatchewan, 101 games.

Randy Ferbey, Alberta; Peter Gallant, P.E.I., 100 games.

Don Aitken, Quebec, 99 games.

Don Walchuk, Alberta, 97 games.

Mark O’Rourke, P.E.I., 89 games.

Wayne Middaugh, Ontario; Robert Campbell, P.E.I. 88 games.

Grant Odishaw, New Brunswick, 86 games.

Rick Folk, Saskatchewan, B.C.; Don Bartlett, Alberta; Pierre Charette, Quebec 85 games.

George Dillon, P.E.I.; Paul Savage,

Ontario, 81 games.

Mark Butler, P.E.I., 78 games.

Neil Harrison, Ontario; Malcolm Turner, Quebec, 77 games.

Jim Ursel, Manitoba, Quebec; 76 games.

Bruce Lohnes, Nova Scotia; Jeff Stoughton, Manitoba, 74 games.

Bert Gretzinger, B.C., 73 games.

James Grattan, New Brunswick, 72 games.

Fred Storey, Alberta, 71 games.

Doug Cameron, P.E.I., Bob Dillon, P.E.I. 70 games.

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