2009 Tim Hortons Brier - Tankard Times - Day 4

Issue Tuesday, March 10, 7, 2009 Issue#4, #1, Saturday, March 2009

TANKARD TIMES OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE 2009 TIM HORTONS BRIER

Aberta始s Kevin Martin (left) and Ontario始s Glenn Howard are a perfect 5-0 at the Brier.

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ONE-IN-A-MILLION SHOT! Howard electrifies crowd!

By LARRY WOOD Tankard Times Editor

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Ontario skip Glenn Howard clung to a share of the Brier lead on Monday.

lenn Howard persists in sending the Saddledome patrons and his opponents home shaking their noggins in disbelief at this Tim Hortons Brier.

On Saturday night at the Pengrowth Saddledome he turned it around in one end against Newfoundland’s Brad Gushue. And on Monday night he executed an out-of-thisworld last rock to literally rob Saskatchewan of a vital win.

The result left Howard neck-and-neck with Alberta’s Kevin Martin at 5-and-0 on the record sheet. Martin, on an adjacent sheet, scored three in the last end to defeat Gushue 7-6 after trailing throughout the match.

So Gushue lost toughies to both favourites who, in turn, stay locked in the run for the playoffs this morning and on track for a lastSEE round collision in roundrobin play Thursday night.

RESULTS, Howard trailed Page 12 Saskatchewan’s Joel Jordison practically from the get-go and was two down playing the 10th end with the hammer but looking at a Saskatchewan deuce, evenly split across the rings when he went down for the last brick.

“Rich (third Richard Hart) and I looked at it and we were thinking of running in the guard that Joel had thrown, and then we saw it,” said Howard. “If we could throw enough weight, run theirs off ours and stick it while we rolled across the rings to erase the other one? The key was we had to throw the big weight. Throw it hard, stick the one on the side and then hope the angles were perfect . . . and lo and behold we had enough to get it out.”

It was a shot close to indescribable.

“Call it an angle-raise double re-direct,” said Ontario vice-skip Richard Hart later.

Howard erased two Saskatchewan stones with

the shot and wound up scoring three to win 7-6.

“He guarded what I thought was going to be our shot so we had to look around and try something,” said Howard. “It was one-in-amillion. I suppose if he’d put his last one on the button he’d have spread three across the rings but always when you have two on the sides and throw to the middle it could be a triple.”

In retrospect, Jordison would have been happy to leave Howard with a shot at a triple “I don’t know,” said a stunned Jordison.

“We should have looked at it a little closer I guess. In hindsight, I guess we could have thrown the guard on that shot. I don’t know.

It all happened pretty quick.

“It’s one of the better ones, no doubt. I’m really sorry I’m the guy who set him up to play it. But I don’t think too many people would have noticed we set that up.

“It was a great shot. Good for him.”

Howard said he’d never made a shot like it to win a game.

“It’s exciting stuff. Halfway down I said, ‘oh my goodness, this looks really good to stick the one’. So the question was could I hit it and spin off like that. Fortunate. Very fortunate.

“It wasn’t a great game for us. They played very well. I missed a horrible one in the second end They stole two. Collectively we weren’t our best. I let the boys down, it was my worst game of the week and somehow miracles happen.”

Gushue stole a third-end single and controlled his match until the final end when third Mark Nichols said, “we had two picks and it’s tough to be one-up without and have two picks”.

The Newfie skip overcurled on his last shot and left Moartin an open hit for a winning three points. Officially, it was ruled a deuce and a 5-4 win.

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The Wood file

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

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ey, hold it a minute! There are 12 provinces/territories represented at this 80th (Tim Hortons) Brier. That’s right, an even dozen!

So, aside from the fact the Blue and Yellow represents the geographical home team and the defending champs and, OK, there’s a lot of interest in how they’re going to fare, and so on, but just what’s all the excessive sugar, syrup and slop about?

Kevin Martin, the Old Bear, and Glenn Howard are rated one-two in this field but there are other teams here who have managed to emerge on top of this pile on occasion, too.

JeanMichel Menard, for one. Mark Dacey for another. Jeff Stoughton for yet another. Not to mention the “old guy”, Russell Howard, Esq. And how about Olympic gold medallist Brad Gushue?

What do they think of all this?

“Well, I don’t think we should be rated higher than we are,” allows Menard, the 2006 Brier champ. “Are we an underdog? Yes. Do we deserve to be an underdog.

Yes. “The last couple of years we haven’t been a dominant team. We have had some success but we’ve had some bad events, too. We have to be honest. Glenn Howard and Kevin Martin are in a league of their own and then probably six or seven good teams are fighting for those other two playoff spots.”

Seriously, if Glenn and The Bear are in a league of their own, how does Jean-Michel rate his chances of winning another Brier?

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Brad Gushue

After Howard and Martin, next level is playing a ʻroulette gameʼ “I think there are a million curlers in the country who just want to play in the Brier and we are among the fortunate ones who have won the Brier,” he says.

“One was probably even more than I expected to accomplish in my career so I don’t like to think that it was my only one but chances are, yes it is. But I still continue to play because I love the game.”

Dacey, the 2004 champion, shrugs his shoulders.

“They’re the last two world champions,” he says. “There’s a world ranking in place and based

on that, they are tops.

“But, you know? It’s like golf and tennis. The rankings are more for the public and the media to play around with. All the curlers themselves know anybody can beat anybody on any given day. We know you have to bring your Agame all the time.”

Gushue, the Brier’s secondyoungest skip, admits that Glenn and The Bear have been “by far the best two teams in the world the past three years and they’re obvious overwhelming favourites this week”.

So how do you go about beat-

ing them?

“I really think that our team, when we play good, can beat those guys on any given day,” says the Newf skipper. “I think the difference right now is consistency.

They play at that level 90-95 per cent of the time, we do it 75-80 per cent of the time. So that’s the big difference. Experience might have something to do with it, or it could be that they get more competition than we get. We travel a lot but it’s still hard to do what they do.

“You can chalk it up to a lot of things but I think we’re real close

and it’s a matter of believing in ourselves. I believe, but I think there’s a little more belief that we could have. You have to have one that sneaks in there to give you the chance or maybe it’s just a matter of playing them enough and you’re close. We’ve played Glenn three times this year and each one has been like the other night. We couldn’t finish it. We have to believe we’re close and making that one more shot will do it.”

Why are Howard and Martin so much better now?

“It’s two different things,” suggests Menard.

“For Kevin Martin’s team, it’s their ability to be deadly accurate on big weight. When they’re in trouble it usually takes them two shots to bail out of trouble. The rest of us, we’re sometimes going to be a little wide or a little tight and it might take three or four shots to get out of trouble.

“You take a team like Glenn Howard and it’s their control of weight. When they play back-eight it’s always back-eight. The rest of us, we may be back-four or back12. It’s close but it’s not the required weight, and these guys always have the right weight. So I think that’s what makes the difference.

“When teams like us play them we won’t win 50 per cent or more of the time. It’s a one-game thing, like it was when we won the Brier.

I thought we played pretty well against Glenn in that game. You have to believe that if the timing is good, you’ll beat them at the right time.

“It’s a roulette game. For them.

Most of the time there won’t be any balls coming your way. But every now and then . . .”

All right, so let’s check out one of these highly-rated favourites.

“I think it (the rating) is probably deserving,” says Glenn Howard.

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“I could feel something under that last stone before I let it go,� said Gushue. “I tried to give it a good spin to get rid of it and get it back on line. It didn’t have the proper handle my in-turn usually has. I’m not real disappointed because I knew I had no control over that rock.�

Martin described the tilt as “an excellent game . . . I would have said the same thing had we lost. It was tremendous curling. We put a lot of pressure on him. He drew button, went through a port looking at three. He had to make a pile of shots.�

Manitoba’s Jeff Stoughton stayed within hailing distance of leaders, moving to 4-and-1.

The 1999 champ tripped Quebec 7-4 in the morning and then pummelled British Columbia 8-2 in the afternoon.

Veteran Russ Howard of New Brunswick pulled even with Gushue at 3-and-2, belting winless Mike Jakubo of Northern Ontario 9-6 on the heels of a morning 10-7 conquest of Nova Scotia’s Mark Dacey, the 2004 Brier champion. “We seem to be our own worst enemies right now,� said Dacey. “Most of the points we’re giving up seem to be off our own miscues. We

Tier 2 From Page 4 “We’ve been one-two in the world for three or four years and there hasn’t been a lot of teams knocking on the door. It’s close but, for some reason, at the end of the year we’re always onetwo. So I think that’s why we’re so-called overwhelming favourites here. But there’s still just a fine line between us and the rest.�

What’s the secret of success? “I just think it’s consistency,� says Howard. “These two teams are pretty consistently good all the time, without having too many peaks and valleys. And when you’re consistently solid, you win a lot of games. “It’s a matter of confidence, maybe ability. We feel that we’re one of the best teams out there and we try to play that way. We don’t give up or give in for anything. We try to win every game, make every shot and we don’t get complacent.

I’m sure every team feels the same way but we seem to be doing it a little bit better than the rest. “The Slams are massive. I think playing in them is advantage because they have identical conditions to the Brier. Experience with more games in these conditions can be an advantage.

Some of these teams take longer to adjust to it.

Of course, teams that don’t travel are at a bit of a disadvantage but that’s obviously their choice.�

need to bring those unforced errors down from five-or-six to two-or-three.�

Dacey socked it to Jakubo 8-3 in the afternoon.

In one other nightcap, British Columbia’s Sean Geall knocked off Quebec’s Jean-Michel Menard 7-3. Newfoundland belted Jamie Koe’s Polars 7-2 in the morning while Howard whipped Rod MaacDonald’s Islanders 8-3.

Alberta doubled the Territories 8-4 in the afternoon while Saskatchewan won its first, 65 over P.E.I. As for the leaders, Martin waved off the importance of winning streaks while Howard suggested the bulk of the pressure was applied early in the week-long gauntlet. “Winning streaks don’t matter at all if you don’t win the event,� said Martin. “They never do. It means you’re playing consistent. But I don’t worry about winning streaks. Win as many as you can and hope at the end you’re in one of the first four spots.�

And Howard? “I find there’s more pressure at the beginning. It’s a long week, you want to make the playoffs, you want to get as many wins under your belt as possible off the top. Also, the more wins you get the more confidence you get and that means less pressure.�

Dacey agrees. “We play on ice that has two-and-a-half feet of curl and not five feet of curl so the environment is different, the ice is different, and even though we have a fair amount of experience on the team we haven’t played in a Brier since ’06 so we haven’t played on this kind of ice,� he says. “We aren’t qualified to play in the Slams because of our points situation and we just don’t have any ice like this to play on. So there’s definitely some adapting. We need to qualify for slam events and to do that you have to bonspiel and you have to do well on the circuit and get your ranking up higher to get the invitation to go. That’s a full-time commitment then. So it’s not a hobby any more, it’s a job. Then you have to know if all four guys are in a position to do it. In my imagination it’s possible but in reality it’s probably not. “I have a wife who curls, too, and two young children and a business and there are only so many things that are important that demand your time and attention. “You see what Brad (Gushue) does. He has four guys ready to get on an airplane quite a bit.

You have to have four guys that can do that.

After this year we’ll sit down and give it some thought and decide it it’s possible. “I hope we can get up a notch with a good week here. I don’t follow the points that closely, I don’t know it that well but I do know a good appearance at the Brier will bring you up quite a bit.�

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Iceman shows some razzle-dazzle T

he 1985 Brier was held in Moncton and the pundits predicted a three-way scuffle involving Pat Ryan’s big hitters from Alberta, Eugene Hritzuk’s powerful Saskatchewan team and Northern Ontario skipped by the 1982 champion, The Iceman, Al Hackner.

As it turned out, Alberta’s takeout game led them to a perfect 11-0 roundrobin record, outscoring the oppoClassic sition by an 82-43 Briers margin. Throw in the fact that they didn’t give up a single steal, and only one two-ender, and the Ryan Express looked an unstoppable force as it headed straight to the final.

While Alberta ran the table in the prelim-

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inaries, mediocrity was the name of the game for the rest of the field. In fact, of the 12 teams involved, four finished with 6-5 records, and four finished with 5-6 records.

Northern Ontario survived an uninspiring 2-2 start and losses in their last two games to finish a distant second with a 7-4 record and a berth in the semi-final.

Three tiebreakers determined the other semi-finalist and Hritzuk’s Saskatchewan outfit won both its games and a date with Hackner.

In a back-and-forth semi, Saskatchewan trailed 5-4 with hammer going into the final end. With two counters, Hritzuk only needed to put up a routine guard with his first shot to all but force an extra end.

However, he missed his opportunity and Hackner ended up stealing two for a 7-4 win and the unenviable task of trying to beat the highly-favoured Ryan foursome in the final.

The Coliseum was packed on that March Sunday, with the 5,000-plus crowd intoxicated with anticipation. Would the favoured

Al Hackner (left) and his teammates hoist the hardware at their homecoming.

Albertans make it a perfect 12-0, or would hammer to take a 3-1 lead.

Hackner pull a horseshoe out of his sports After seven ends, Ryan was still ahead 4bag and take home the silverware?

2 and peeling everything in sight, and The first few ends went according to seemingly content to hit out and defend the expectations with neither team taking too two-point lead. any chances. Alberta got the first break in the third when they scored a deuce with the

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Our community involvement and excellent service has earned The Cooperators ‘The Consumer Choice Award for Insurance Broker and Agent’ for over seven years. Thank you Calgary for continuing to think so highly of us!

For more information on Co-operators products, feel free to stop by our sponsor booth in the Saddledome and make sure you enter to win a Nintendo Wii.

And the Lord sayeth: Get thee to the curling club You mention a religious war and you can make people nervous.

And, believe it or not, there’s one happening this week down at the Calgary Curling Club It’s a friendlier version than what you normally hear about on the evening news. This one is waged on ice.

It’s the Friars’ Briar, circa 2009.

Since 1980, the Friars’ Briar has attempted to follow the ‘real’ Brier around the country. Its purpose is to allow pastors and priests from every conceivable denomination to join in some friendly rivalry and get to know one another.

The vestments and collars come off (for those who wear them) and everyone enjoys playing a few games and watching as much of the Tim Horton’s Brier as possible.

The teams are required to have at least three fulltime church workers and one regular Joe (or Jane) who can play any position except skip. In the last few years, the teams have come from B.C., Ontario and everywhere in between. The Friars currently are looking for contacts to spread the word into the Maritimes.

There 24 teams vying for the prize of Canadian Clergy Curling Champions. The draw involves four pools with a round-robin in each with playoffs to follow. By Sunday, many of them are back in their churches performing their regular duties.

The history and information on the Friars’ Briar are available online at HYPERLINK “http://www.friarsbriar.com� www.friarsbriar.com.

The games take place during the day, Tuesday to Friday this week.

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By JIM HESELTINE For The Tankard Times

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he Skirl, the Curl, Collie Campbell and the Morning Classes . . .

When you hear the skirl of the bagpipes, see the curl of the stones, hear of Collie Campbell and attend morning classes, you must be at the Brier.

Did you ever wonder how it all started?

The Scottish bagpipe is unique in that it has three drones. Pipes have been in existence for hundreds of years and are played in well over 30 countries, but the Scots adopted the bagpipes as their own in the 1700s. Eventually, the Highland and Lowland regiments formed their own bands as they prepared for whatever situations the British Government and the military demanded of them.

There are piping schools everywhere but the most famous school is held at the magnificent Edinburgh Castle. I often wonder what an opening ceremony would be like without the pipes and drums. As a Scot, I shudder when a piper pipes in the head table and the assembled guests endeavour to clap along.

Unfortunately, there isn’t a “Bagpipe Clapping 101”. It’s easier to tap your foot to keep time.

In pipe bands, the big base drummer is the one who, on a cue from the Pipe Major, double beats the big drum to signify the ending of the tune.

On a bitterly cold late December day 30 years ago, a group of friends waited at McArthur Cemetery in Elgin County for the cortege of Collie Campbell to arrive at his final resting place. We never heard the skirl of the pipes and a final lament for Collie, because the fingers of fellow clansman, piper Donald Campbell, were numb from the freezing temperatures.

Over the years, questions have often been asked about the origin of curling.

Arguments go on and on, but one question can never be refuted . The original curling stones were made of granite quarried from Ailsa Craig, an 1,100-foot volcanic island

Raise a glass or two to Collie for his Brier ʻfriendshipʼ tradition 10 miles off the Ayrshire coast in the Firth of Clyde. Granite was its only export from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th.

Ailsa Craig has been uninhabited since the lighthouse was automated in 1990 and is now a bird sanctuary. The question now is where do the Canadian Curling Stone manufacturers get their granite from? There are two curling stone companies, one in London, Ont., and the other in Winnipeg.

Both use granite quarried from Trefor in North Wales.

And there are the morning classes.

On the subject of Campbell, perhaps I should have used all the honours he was entitled to, but most of us who knew him and met him over the years recognized that he just wanted to be called Collie. Colin A.

Campbell was A Man For All Seasons, a graduate mining engineer from Queen’s University and one of the youngest Liberal MPs in the 1935 Mackenzie King administration. He resigned his seat in 1937 to enter the upcoming Ontario election and hoped for a cabinet post in the new Mitch Hepburn government. After a series of setbacks he was appointed Minister of Public Works, representing Sault Ste. Marie.

When he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Engineers in October of 1939, Collie urged the powers that be to consider forming a special unit of Engineers for immediate service with the Allies, and another special unit of tunnelling troops.

Collie was sent overseas with the First Canadian Division and even in wartime

The inimitable Colin Campbell is flanked by two regular students of the Morning Classes, the late Dick Dolphin (left) of Thunder Bay and Jim (Chico) Heseltine, a long-time Brier regular from St. Thomas, Ont.

Britain always found time for his beloved game of curling. He spent most of his leaves in Scotland, bonspieling and making friends, not realizing that those contacts in later years would be so invaluable during the Scotch Cup and his presidency of the International Curling Federation (19691978).

After the War, Collie received so many honours; CCA president, Brier Trustee, Hall of Fame, CCA Honorary Life Member, and, in the 1951 Brier, he played lead for the Gordon Campbell-skipped Ontario team, finishing with a 6-4 record.

That same year, Collie started the Brier’s all-Ontario final, when North played South with the losing association paying for the after-hours party.

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Profiles: Quebec HOME CLUB: ETCHEMIN CURLING CLUB, ST-ROMUALD

FACTS

Jean-Michel Menard SKIP

NICKNA M Djemme E: JM, y AGE: 33 RESIDEN C PARTNE E: Gatineau R: Marrie Annie Le d to m EMPLOY ay M Human r ENT: esource s consulta n governm t, federal e HE IS: Fu nt n friendly, ny, loyal LOVES C U BECAUSE RLING : the good Of all things the sport h given me as — friends, w if even som e and e success.

Martin Crete THIRD NICKNAME: The Suez Channel AGE: 23 RESIDENCE: Levis PARTNER: Veronique Brassard EMPLOYMENT: Programmer, Economic Development, Quebec government.

HE IS: Intense, loud, competitive.

LOVES CURLING BECAUSE: I can compete at a high level and reach goals that I can’t reach in my work.

THE PROVINCE Population: 7,410,500 Area: 1,542,056 sq km Joined Confederation: 1867 Motto: “I remember” Capital City: Quebec City Laguages Spoken: 81.9% French, 8.9% English 9.2% other Principal Products: Pulp-and paper products, food processing products, automobiles and transport equipment gold, iron ore QUEBEC AT THE BRIER Last four years: 2008 — Jean-Michel Menard, StRomuald (4-7) 2007 — Pierre Charette, Cap-de-laMadeleine (4-7) 2006 — Jean-Michel Menard, SteFoy (10-4) 2005 — Jean-Michel Menard, Ste-

Eric Sylvain SECOND NICKNAME: Youppi AGE: 37 RESIDENCE: Levis PARTNER: Julie Rainville EMPLOYMENT: General manager, St-Michel Golf Club HE IS: Intensity, conservative, responsible.

LOVES CURLING BECAUSE: It’s a team sport and there’s lots of strategy.

Foy (7-5) Last championship — Jean-Michel Menard, 2006.

Canadian titles — 2 Menard 2006, Kim Ursel, 1977.

World titles — None.

DID YOU KNOW. . .

I The narrowest house in North America is located on rue Donnaconna in Quebec City? Indeed, it is only 3.7 metres long (12 feet).

Jean Gagnon LEAD NICKNAME: Johnny AGE: 38 RESIDENCE: Levis PARTNER: Valerie Leclerc, daughter Alexia (3), sons Olivier (9), Philippe (6).

EMPLOYMENT: CRDI-CA HE IS: Honest, team spirit, funny.

LOVES CURLING BECAUSE: Teamwork.

CAREER HIGHLIGHT: Silver medal, 2006 World men’s championship.

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Profiles: British Columbia HOME CLUB: ROYAL CITY CURLING CLUB (NEW WESTMINSTER)

FACTS

Sean Geall SKIP

NICKNA ME: Gea ller AGE: 34 RESIDEN CE: Surr ey, B.C. PARTNE R: Wife Stacy EMPLOY ME Western NT: One Realty HE IS: S arcastic , relaxed.

LOVES C URLING BECAUS E: There is beer.

Brent Pierce THIRD NICKNAME: The Leaper AGE: 39 RESIDENCE: New Westminster PARTNER: Wife Susan, son Gavin, daughter Cassandra.

EMPLOYMENT: Sales manager, Surfwood Supply HE IS: Confident, intense, outspoken.

LOVES CURLING BECAUSE: The people.

THE PROVINCE Population: 4,095,900 Area: 944,735 km sq Motto: “Splendour without diminishment” Joined Confederation: 1871 Capital City: Victoria Languages Spoken: 80.9 % English, 1.4% French 3.2% bilingual, 14.5% other Principal Products: Lumber, pulp and paper products, processed foods B.C. AT THE BRIER Last five years: 2008 — Bob Ursel, Kelowna (8-5) 2007 — Dean Joanisse, Victoria (4-7) 2006 — Dennis Graber, Kamloops (6-5) 2005 — Deane Horning, Trail (6-5) 2004 — Jay Peachey, New Westminster (9-5) Last championship — Greg McAulay, New Westminster, 2000.

Kevin Recksiedler SECOND NICKNAME: The Slider AGE: 28 RESIDENCE: Pitt Meadows, B.C. PARTNER: Single EMPLOYMENT: Customer service and logistics manager HE IS: Classy, gassy, sassy LOVES CURLING BECAUSE: Girls

Canadian titles — 4: Frenchy D’Amour 1948, Lyall Dagg 1964, Rick Folk 1994, McAulay2000 World titles — 3: Dagg, Folk, McAulay.

DID YOU KNOW. . .

I B.C. is the third-largest film and television production centre in North America after New York and Los Angeles.

Mark Olson LEAD NICKNAME: Sarge AGE: 34 RESIDENCE: White Rock, B.C. FAMILY: Wife Angela, daughters Sase and Meghan.

EMPLOYMENT: Deskhand, B.C. Ferries HE IS: Hugable, kissable, sarcastic LOVES CURLING BECAUSE: Get to drink beer with my friends.

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STANDINGS W Alberta (Martin) 5 Ontario (G. Howard) 5 Manitoba (Stoughton) 4 N.B. (R. Howard) 3 NL (Gushue) 3 B.C. (Geall) 2 Nova Scotia (Dacey) 2 P.E.I. (MacDonald) 2 Quebec (Menard) 2 NWT/Y (Koe) 1 Saskatchewan (Jordison) 1 N. Ontario (Jakubo) 0

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DRAW SCHEDULE TODAY

LINESCORES Saskatchewanʼs Aryn Schmidt and Dean Hicke get busy on the brushes.

MONDAY DRAW 6 8:30 a.m.

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Alberta (Martin) 100 302 002 x — 8 NWT/Y (Koe) 001 020 010 x — 4 S P % S P % ALTA. 72 259 90 NWT/Y 71 224 79 N.B. (R. Howard) Nova Scotia (Dacey) S P N.B. 77 244

021 201 103 x — 10 200 020 030 x — 7 % S P % 79 N.S. 79 248 78

Sask. (Jordison) 001 100 101 11 — 6 PEI (MacDonald) 010 002 020 00 — 5 S P % S P % SASK. 88 269 76 PEI. 87 267 77 Quebec (Menard) Manitoba (Stoughton) S P QUE. 79 266

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DRAW 7 1 p.m.

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PEI (MacDonald) Ontario (G. Howard) S P PEI 64 178

010 101 00x x — 3 202 010 21x x — 8 % S P % 70 ONT. 64 220 86

DRAW 8 6 p.m.

Ontario (G. Howard) Sask. (Jordison) S P ONT. 80 273

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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 WEDNESDAY Draw 12 8:30 a.m.

A — Y/NWT vs. Ont. B — N.S. vs. B.C. C — PEI vs. NL D — Man. vs. N. Ont. Draw 13 1 p.m.

A — N. Ont. Vs. Alta.

B — NL vs. N.B. C — B.C. vs. Sask.

D — Ont. Vs. Que. Draw 14 7:30 p.m.

A — Sask. vs. N.S. B — Que. vs. Y/NWT C — Alta. vs. Man. D —N.B. vs. PEI

13 Tuesday, March 10, 2009

BRIER ROOKIES

First-time skips bask in spotlight

By MARK STOWBRIDGE Special to The Tankard Times

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aving to perform in front of crowds is hard for anyone, but imagine having to do it in front of thousands of people and TV cameras . . . for the first time!

The clapping and cheering crowds, the pressure of a Brier debut, the tension is palpable.

Sean Geall, rookie skip for B.C., smiles when asked how he feels about the pressuer-cooker environment. “I love it,� he says. “As a curler, you can’t ask for much more.�

Geall and Saskatchewan’s Joel Jordison are two firsttime skips at the Brier. The 2009 event is their debut on

the much-coveted and much-loved national stage of Canadian curling.

Leading up to and throughout the tournament, many columnists, insiders and commentators have declared this quite possibly the best field of competitors to play at the Brier. Hence, making this tournament your debut comes with the added pressure, Jordison remains unfazed despite the stiff competiton and the pedigree of the other clubs. “We’re not intimidated by anyone here,� he says. “Not by any means.�

But there are growing pains, he admits, to being a new team competing on a level like the Brier. Nerves are one thing, but victory comes from concentration.

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“We know what we can do,� he says, a glint of determination in his eyes.

It’s all about focus, he says, “getting our proverbial you-know-what together and doing it.�

Jordison’s grit comes from the sting of early defeats, but despite finding a winning formula, B.C.’s Geall has his mind in a similar place.

Focus also is key for his squad. It’s important, he says, “not to get too involved with what’s going on around us.�

As he departs the ice, many of the fans call out congratulations to him on his first victory, a comfortable 9-4 victory over Northern Ontario.

He has a restrained smile; however, it is obvious he’s trying to keep his glee from boiling over in public, before the press and the cameras.

He chuckles as he talks about how nervewracking it is to shoot in front of other people like this. Despite the nerves, he laughs, and says it is a good place to be. “Nice to get that one,� he says. “It’s nice to get a win early and get a little more com-

Tuesday, March 10, 2009 14 fortable.�

He confesses that nerves were an issue for him and Mark Olson, but for the grace of his teammates — Kevin Recksiedler and Brent Pierce, who have played here before — the experience could have been worse.

Digging in and getting the first anxietyinducing experience over with is key, he says. “It’s just comfort now,� he says. “It’s almost a relief to get it going, winning or making the first shot.�

Jordison is in a similar place. Despite his early troubles, he is steadfast in his optimism. As a new team, he says, “we’ve got to build off every success.� “It’s always nice to come out and win that first one,� he says, “but there’ve been quite a few ’spiels this year where we’ve either rattled off three or four wins in an row and (are) sitting in the lounge on Saturday or we lose our first one then claw our way back.�

They have come from different teams, different places, and have had different opening experiences at the 2009 Brier, but their vigilance is equal. Different situations, but the same approach. “If you come into an event like this and don’t think you can win,� says Geall, “there’s no point in playing. Obviously, our goal is to win and we’ll do everything we can to try and do that.�

B.C. skip Sean Geall says focus is the key for his team at the Brier.

15 Tuesday, March 10, 2009

ROAD TO THE TIM HORTONS BRIER

Year off pays big dividends for Dacey Mark Dacey, the 2004 Brier champ, us, they are going to make some real returned with a vengeance in the 16-team noise.� triple-knockout provincial final for the Dacey shaded former champions Mark Bluenosers at Chester.

Kehoe and Shawn Adams in an extra end In sailing through unbeaten with six before topping Doug MacKenzie of straight wins, Dacey, who took a year Halifax 7-6 in the A final. None of those off last season to operate two Tim teams made it back for another shot, Hortons franchises in Halifax, appeared though, as Fitzner-LeBlanc stopped to own the field.

MacKenzie 7-6 in the semi-final, (Combined 14 “Your batteries need a recharge every MacKenzie earlier eliminated Adams in previous appearances) once in a while,� Dacey told Monty C qualifying and Kehoe bit the dust at Mosher of the Halifax Chronicle-Herald. the hands of Halifax’s Ken Myers who “I think every team has a shelf life and when you go beyond lost to MacKenzie in the Page-Three-Four tussle. that it starts to feel stale. That year off really helped me.�

Fitzner-LeBlanc and MacKenzie each compiled 6-3 records Dacey still has veteran vice-skip Bruce Lohnes issuing while Myers was 5-3. Adams finished 4-3 while Kehoe, Glen rockets and has moved Andrew Gibson up to second, replac- MacLeod of Halifax and Chad Stevens of Chester sawed off at ing Rob Harris. The new lead is Brier rookie Kris Granchelli. 3-3. “They were the best team all year from start to finish,� said At 2-3 were Mike Bardsley of Halifax, Peter Burgess of Truro 23-year-old Ian Fitzner-LeBlanc who twice took it on the chin and defending champion Brian Rafuse of Bridgewater. Andy from Dacey by 8-1 scores — in the Page One-Two playoff and Corkum of Halifax shared 1-3 status with Rob Harris and Jamie the subsequent championship mismatch.

Murphy of Halifax. “From September to February we were proud to play them.

Winless in three starts were Trevor Archibald of Kentville and If they play at the Brier like they did in those two games against Brent MacDougall of Halifax.

NOVA SCOTIA

Mark Dacey checks in for Brier No. 6.

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Classes From Page 9 All of his curling awards can never come close to his military records. He distinguished himself well by rising to the rank of Brigadier General, received the Distinguished Service Order (DSO), the Order of the British Empire (OBE) and two Mentions in Dispatches and other honours from Britain, France and the United States.

When Collie Campbell first made the suggestion of forming a tunnelling group within the Canadian Engineers, little did he know two years later he would be promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and lead a group of miners from Timmins, Ont., at one of the most famous rocks of the world — The Rock of Gibraltar.

Its defensive position was so important to

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During wartime, many commitments were made as to what a soldier might do when it was over. One bunch decided to form a club called the Hawk’s Nest. The original cub had 15 members. The last two original members, Abe Carrol and Len Cameron of Thunder Bay, played their last ends in December, 2008.

Many former students will remember Len Cameron in his professorial role last year in Winnipeg, so proud was he that the Classes

were celebrating their 60th anniversary. If you’ve never been to a Morning Class, plan on attending this year. School runs from 7.30 a.m. to 9 a.m. at the Westin Hotel, through Sunday.

Collie, Abe and Len trained the staff well over the years. Professor Al Fiskar, his assistant and class photographer Morris Stoyka, secretary Lillian Childs and her daughters Carrie and Carol are carrying on the tradition of their father and grandfather.

Stan Poole, Fred Coulson, Al Cummings and Oscar Mattis will be waiting to fill your glasses with what I would call “A Pick-MeUpper�. Others call them a “Tom Collins� and my Scottish father called it a “Quiet Refreshment�. However, the main ingredient for them all is called friendship. Classes have been held over the years at Strathcona Cups, Scotch Cups, Silver Brooms and world championships but the Brier Morning Classes hosted by a group from the Fort William Curling Club has outlasted them all.

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Morning Classes are never cancelled. I recall a massive storm in Quebec in 1971, and in 1972 none of the visitors got to St. John’s until the Sunday, yet everyone still made Classes.

Whatever your Brier-week status may be — player, official, fan, visitor or an unsung hero on the local committee, and there are many of these — the welcome mat is out at the Westin.

Follow the signs to Morning Classes, where you can raise your glass to Abe and Len, the last of the originals, and other absent friends.

As they say in Scotland, “Lang mae yer lum reek�.

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Brier Trivia One man has played for three provinces at the Brier, Name him.

1. How about the provinces/territories for which he played?

2. How about the years in which he played for those provinces/territories?

3. Heading into the current renewal, a total of 23 players have competed for at least two provinces or territories at the Canadian men’s championship. Four are playing at the Saddledome. They are: 4. Name the provinces/territory for which

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they are playing.

5. Name the other province/territories for which they played, and when.

6. Name the first and last Alberta skips to win 10 or more games at the Brier.

7. How many wins for each and in which years?

8. Name the P.E.I. skips who the most victories at the Canadian men’s championship, the number of wins and the year they posted that number.

9. The most wins ever turned in by a New Brunswick skip at the Canadian men’s championship was?

10. The skip and the year.

11. How about the most wins ever recorded by a Quebec skip?

12. Name the skip and the year.

QofD: Earle Morris.

1. Manitoba, Quebec, Ontario 2. Manitoba 1980, Quebec 1982, Ontario 1985.

3. Mark Dacey, Ben Hebert, John Morris, Jon Solberg 4. Dacey, Nova Scotia; Hebert and Morris, Alberta; Solberg, Territories.

5. Dacey, Saskatchewan in 1995, Hebert, Saskatchewan in 2005 and 2006. Morris, Ontario in 2002, Solberg, Northern Ontario in 2005

TODAY’S QUIZ

Nova Scotia skip Mark Dacey hangs on tight to his broom as he calls for sweeping help Monday at the Brier.

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6. Matt Baldwin, Kevin Martin.

7. Baldwin won 10 in 1957, Martin won more than 13 last year.

8. Alan Smith won 7 in 1968 and 1969, Robert Campbell won 7 in 1995, Peter MacDonald won 7 in 1996.

9. Nine wins.

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11. 10 wins 12. Jean-Michel Menard in 2006.

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Classic Briers From Page 6 After exchanging singles, Alberta took a 5-3 lead into the final end and looked virtually assured of victory, especially given the straight ice and pre-free-guard-zone format.

All Alberta needed to do was run Northern Ontario out of rocks to win the championship.

But, somehow, as the 10th end unfolded, the Ryan Express developed a little engine knock, and two uncharacteristic misses let the Northern Ontarians get two guards in position. Then with his first skip rock, Hackner played a perfect split which left Northern Ontario counting two: One on the four-foot with another on the 12-foot.

When Ryan stepped up to throw his last rock he faced a corner guard on the left, an open Hackner stone in the corner of the four-foot, his own stone at the edge of the eight-foot and another Hackner stone near the top of the 12-foot. He decided on a hitand-roll off Hackner’s stone at the corner of the four-foot. And he made a great shot.

The Albertans were now sitting two and under cover. It looked like the Iceman had no shot!

Even Hackner’s wife, Margaret, who was in the audience, was resigned to her husband’s fate. She later told curling writer Jean Sonmor: “He didn’t have a chance, but he’s like that, he will never give up no matter what.�

As Hackner set up in the hack, the crowd went eerily quiet: It was obvious that his only chance was a nearly-impossible razor thin double-takeout through a narrow port

between guards. As Hackner was to say later, “I could see about an inch of the rock and I had to hit half-an-inch. I remember sitting in the hack thinking I’d made two or three razzle-dazzle shots before in club games and if I had one more razzle-dazzle in me let it be now.�

As soon as the Hackner released the rock, it was obvious that it didn’t need sweeping on the straight Moncton Coliseum ice and third Rick Lang immediately called off the front end of Pat Perroud and Ian Tetley. At the hogline it looked very close.

As the rock haired past the guard, the crowd erupted into an enormous roar.

Hackner had made The Shot, and curling fans now had their own version of Paul Henderson’s series-winning goal against the Soviets in ’72.

As Hackner later told curling columnist Bob Weeks: “When it made contact with

the first one, I knew we had it. When it hit the second one‌there’s never been a better moment in a curling arena.�

As the teams headed into the extra end tied at 5-5, it was clear that the momentum had shifted to the team from the Fort William Curling Club. Misses by the Alberta third allowed the Northern Ontarians to get a counter behind two wellpositioned guards. By the time Ryan set up to throw his last rock he was faced with a cold in-turn draw for a piece of the four-foot to beat out Northern Ontario’s shot rock.

Ryan’s rock came close enough to come down to a measure. However, the measurement showed that Alberta was second shot by less than two inches. The Tankard had gone to Northern Ontario in the most exciting finish in Brier history.

Alex Roberts is a Halifax-based writer

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