Day 7 Edition of the Tankard Times

Issue Friday, March 13, 2009 Issue#7, #1, Saturday, March 7, 2009

TANKARD TIMES OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE 2009 TIM HORTONS BRIER

Quebec, Manitoba square off in fourth-place tiebreaker

Quebec skip Jean-Michel Menard kept his Brier hopes alive with a finalround win over Northern Ontario, his fifth straight.

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Martin rips up record book Five left in hunt for title

By LARRY WOOD Tankard Times Editor

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Kevin Martin wrapped up a perfect 11-0 record with a final-round 7-5 victory over Ontario. The two teams meet tonight in the 1-2 playoff.

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Saturday

evin Martin obliterated the record for Brier winning streaks and vaulted his Alberta squad forward, but not immensely, in a Tim Hortons Brier round-robin closer Thursday night at the Pengrowth Saddledome before 12,862 fans.

It was the first of what easily could become a best-of-three series for the Brier Tankard currently being defended by Martin’s Albertans. And they won this match 7-5 when Ontario’s Glenn Howard wrecked on a guard with his last stone, an attempt at a double takeout for the win that probably would have been there had his stone scraped past the guard.

The same two teams face off again tonight in the Page OneTwo playoff game with the winner advancing directly to the final at 6 p.m. Sunday and the loser dropping to Saturday night’s semi-final at 6 p.m.

SEE For Martin, it was his 24th straight Brier win, surpassing the RESULTS, record of 23 straight set by Randy Page 12 Ferbey from that last round of the 2002 Brier in the same building through to Round 13 of the 2004 Brier at Saskatoon.

Martin, however, refrained to comment on the record.

“Both teams were fantastic,” he said of Thursday night’s affair. “That was something else. This is the kind of game we wanted going into the playoffs.

Sure was fun, I’ll tell you that.

“We’ve been consistent and that’s a good thing and it’s helpful knowing we can do that. It was good for our team, but it was good for their team, too. Win or lose, that’s a great springboard game. I don’t think it’s going to hurt them any more than it might have hurt us.”

Howard may have been the most exuberant loser in Brier history. Most surprising when you consider he took control of the game with an eighth-end deuce and owned the hammer in the 10th, trailing by one and looking for another pair.

“I’ve never had so much fun guys,” he said.

“That’s really why I play this game. And luckily it was just a warmup. It would have been nice if I’d made that shot. I should have been there. It just over-curled a bit. The only sad part was it wasn’t that big a game for other than hammer tomorrow night. Hopefully we’ll do it again.”

Martin, of course, finished the round-robin gauntlet at 11-and-zip for the second straight Brier. With the loss, Howard was 9-2.

Brad Gushue of St. John’s won a key last-round engagement against Saskatchewan, 8-3, to offset a morning loss to Manitoba’s Jeff Stoughton and claim the No. 3 playoff hole at 8-and-3.

Stoughton won a pair on the bubble, 7-5 over Saskatchewan and 8-3 over an out-curled Newfoundland squad.

Manitoba (7-4) faces Quebec’s Jean-Michel Menard in a tiebreaker at 1 p.m. today. Gushue awaits the winner for a Page Three-Four suddendeath fracas on Saturday at 10 a.m.

British Columbia’s Sean Geall and New Brunswick’s Russ Howard were casualties on the final day. Geall’s Brier was spoiled 11-3 by Jamie Koe’s Polars in the morning. Then the rookie B.C. skip rebounded to kayo Russ Howard 5-4 on the late shift.

In the night’s feature, Alberta was lying two when Glenn Howard went down for the last shot.

He needed to tissue a guard and kill both Alberta stones for the win.

“Richie (third Richard Hart) says to me, ‘no matter where he puts his last rock, if there’s a shot for two we’re going for it,” said the younger Howard.

“What I saw over the week was Kevin playing really well and the other teams not play up to par and when that happens you’re going to get killed.

They (Alberta) intimidate people, absolutely. I think we may intimidate some teams, too, but not so much as Kevin. He’s got that weapon where he gets up a few points and they can run very well.

“But there’s no doubt in our minds we can beat him. That’s the first time he’s beaten us this year.

But we can do it.”

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ICEMAKER

A frozen treat for Brier curlers

By LINDSEY WALLIS Special to The Tankard Times

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or Jamie Bourassa, ice is more than just frozen water.

A former competitive curler, Bourassa is in charge of producing and maintaining the ice for the Tim Hortons Brier. He has been part of the event’s ice team for the past five Briers.

Bourassa provides more than 30 years of experience to the sheets this week. He grew up in Fort McLeod, where his dad was the recreation director, and managed the curling rink, arena and swimming pool.

Junior began helping out at the rinks at a young age, making the ice at both the curling rink and arena. As soon as he graduated from high school, he had his first opportunity to run a four-sheeter.

Putting in the ice takes a lot of work and an amazing amount of accuracy, but Bourassa says that’s the easy part.

“Maintaining it is the hard part, you have so many variations,� he says.

Bourassa’s team started with the existing ice at the Pengrowth Saddledome. Firstly, it made certain that the existing ice was extremely level because, unlike hockey, even a slight high or low spot will cause the rocks to react.

Next up, a flood to level the ice with hard water. The ice has to be harder than the frozen soft-water the Saddledome uses for hockey.

Once “good, hard ice� is achieved, the entire surface is painted white and sealed. Next, all the markings are added — the circles are painted on, the lines rolled out with wool and the sponsor logos made from tissue paper.

Dividers are added, the ice flooded for the final time, and carpet put down around the sheets.

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Jamie Bourassa makes curling ice with tender, loving care.

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Icemaker From Page 3 Still, those sheets aren’t ready for competition.

Before the first draw, the ice surfaces are scraped and pebbled and nipped — a routine that is performed before every draw during the entire tournament. “We re-surface every game, just like hockey, except ours is a lot more technical and more labour intensive,�

Bourassa says.

Unlike the Zamboni driver who takes a couple of turns around the ice, Bourassa and his team scrape and pebble using backpacks and sprinkler heads to create bumps. Then the bumps are smoothed off slightly with a scraper, a process known as nipping. Then tests are undertaken to ensure there are no “runs� — small dips in the ice that will impede the movement of the stones. “When we scrape it, we can tell if we’re getting a run and we’ll change our pattern,� Bourassa says.

Once the ice is the best it can be, Bourassa and his team have to make sure it stays that way, which takes equal parts of technology and intuition.

At his post down at ice level, Bourassa has his “eye on the ice,� a computer which monitors the temperature of the ice, as well as temperature and humidity sensors throughout the rink. “It gives us signs if it’s heating up in places or getting too cold. Orange is humidity and blue is air tem-

perature around the building. It tells us if we have hot spots. There are lots of things to watch,� Bourassa says.

He also checks the temperature at the centre of the ice between ends. “Hey, if (the ice) is good you get to see shots like that,� he said as the crowd roared its appreciation for a well-placed shot by Team Alberta. “We’ve given them some good ice to play on. If we keep it like that, the shots will just get better and better all week.�

There also is a lot of anticipation and planning involved in fashioning the freeze. Bourassa knows the number of tickets sold for each draw and uses the information to estimate how many people will be seated in the building, and what that means for the cooling systems. “We try to maintain a constant surface temperature, which is difficult when you have such large variations in crowd size,� he says. “On Saturday we had 14,000plus but Sunday morning we probably only had 3,000 people.�

Bourassa’s full-time job is in management — a sixsheeter at the Coaldale Curling Club. He moved there to be close to his family after tiring of the fast pace of Calgary.

He says it’s always excited to work the Brier. And, according to a consensus of players, they’re happy to have his expertise on hand. “It’s the whole atmosphere, it’s just a wonderful event,� he says. “It’s the big show in Canada.�

Who’s next to join 100-per-cent club?

Quick now, how many perfect games have been thrown at the Brier?

If you answered 16, you’d be as close to right as you can get.

Of course, this Brier stat has only been in existence since people started scoring curling games.

Among other stats for which absolutely no proof exists, this list of 100 per-centers rates tops.

1960 — Stu Beagle, Alberta skip — vs. Nova Scotia.

1968 — Bernie Sparkes, Alberta second — vs. B.C. 1969 — Dave Gerlach, Alberta third — vs. Nova Scotia.

1992 — Kevin Martin, Alberta skip — vs. Quebec.

1995 — Kerry Burtnyk, Manitoba skip — vs. N. Ontario.

2001 — Wayne Middaugh, Ontario skip — vs. Quebec; Wayne Middaugh, Ontario skip — vs. Manitoba; Ian Tetley.

Ontario skip — vs. Manitoba.

2004 — Trevor Wall, Ontario lead — vs. P.E.I.; Phil Loevenmark, Ontario second — vs. Quebec; Scott Pfeifer, Alberta second — vs. Northern Ontario.

2006 — Glenn Howard, Ontario skip — vs. Manitoba.

2007 — Pierre Fraser, New Brunswick lead — vs. Alberta; Craig Savill, Ontario lead — vs. New Brunswick.

2008 — Glenn Howard, Ontario skip — vs. P.E.I.

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Brier fun is being put in a bear hug!

By CATHERINE SZABO Special to the Tankard Times

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rier Bear, the mascot for the Tim Horton’s Brier, is having a ball and holding court in the Saddledome for the 29th consecutive Brier.

Originally from St. John’s, Nfld., Reg Caughie, now 71, was on the organizing committee in 1981 when the Brier went to Halifax. They decided then that they needed a mascot, and Caughie volunteered to become Brier Bear — once. “I was only going to do it for that year, but I’ve been invited back ever since,� he says.

The costume he currently wears is the third that he’s had, and he expects to get another year or so out of this one before it’s time to look for a replacement.

Being Brier Bear is a hot and sweaty job, in more ways than one. The costume does not contain a cooling jacket — instead, a fan in the bear’s head pushes out the warmed air. Even so, Reg is ready for a shower when the draw is over.

While in the public eye, Brier Bear has been known to get up to all sorts of things. His usual plan is to go out with the players when they’re warming up, and then work his way up into the crowd.

Once up in the stands, he will pull kids out and bring them down to ice level. He will brush bald heads with his broom. But he best known for being a cuddly beast. “Lots of hugs, of course.� Reg says. “Nothing like a hug — people like hugs.�

Getting around to give those hugs, however, is sometimes a challenge.

Caughie not only does a lot of walking to keep in shape, but he is also a curler.

With those big bear paws on his feet, Caughie has to be careful when he’s walking around, since each arena has a range of stair sizes, and even various sections of the same arena can have different sizes of steps. “I’ve gotten myself caught between chairs in the stands and the fans think that’s hilarious, too,� he said.

Brier Bear gives out hugs.

Although the fun that Caughie has in the costume is sometimes planned, there’s also a lot of spontaneity involved.

He remembers the year he grabbed a flag from a bearer and started running away with it. Unfortunately, he tripped, and everyone chasing after him piled on top.

Caughie said that he feels bringing a fun aspect to the game is important, especially with so many children in the audience. He feels that if he can get them interested in the bear, then maybe he can get them interested in the game as well. “For me, it’s certainly been an exhilarating experience,� Caughie says. “It’s well worth it, because I’ve had so much fun and met so many great Canadians.

After all these years, I could probably write a book.�

In all the years of Brier Bear, Caughie has criss-crossed Canada several times, and feels it’s appropriate that the 30-year anniversary of Brier Bear next year will find him back in Halifax, where the adventure all began.

S zabo is a journalism student at Mount Royal College)

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Long slide changed face of curling

Ken Watson created controversy with his slide.

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he 1936 Brier was held at the Granite Club in Toronto and marked the first time that every province in Canada was represented.

Indeed, two provinces representing Canada’s geographical extremities joined the action for the first time: Prince Edward Island and British Classic Columbia.

Briers As well as an expanded entry list, the field included some of the most renowned performers in the game including Alberta’s George Wanless, New Brunswick’s Reg Shives, Nova

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Scotia’s Murray Macneill (winner of the inaugural Brier in 1927), and Manitoba’s soon-to-be famous Ken Watson.

Watson was first out of the gate as his aggressive strategy, and the outstanding shotmaking abilities of his team (Grant Watson, Marvin MacIntyre and Charlie Kerr) led to lopsided victories over Allberta and Ontario.

Yet, it was Watson’s long-slide delivery that created as much news as the huge margins of victory. Watson was one of the first curlers to slide while delivering the rock, and some curlers and officials believed that the long slide delivery gave the Manitobans an unfair advantage because the rock was closer to target on release. (Prior to 1936, curlers rarely slid past the back of the eightfoot before releasing the rock.)

The controversy reached a fever pitch after the Manitobans smoked Ontario’s entry 21-3 in the opening draw.

Remember, the Brier was being held at the Granite Club in the heart of Toronto, so it was inevitable that some of the Ontario-based officials and the Toronto media would get their noses out of joint after seeing their team, skipped by Hector Cowan of Sarnia, slaughtered.

In fact, the Brier potentates did ask Watson to shorten his delivery, but when he lost his third game to Northern Ontario 10-6, he went back to the long-slide delivery. And since none of the other teams had laid a formal complaint, and there was nothing in the rulebook at the time indicating that the long slide was illegal, there was little the officials could do.

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Added Hart: “I just feel lucky that I had a chance to experience that. The crowd in this building was unbelievable. It would have been interesting if we’d hadn’t only been playing for hammer. Would we have played the same shot or only played for one to tie? If that had been the final we might have drawn for one.�

Alberta, who has had the hammer in every game it has played this week — Martin has required all his shots in only two of the 11 (against Ontario and Newfoundland) — will have hammer and rock choice tonight.

Gushue, meanwhile, had mixed feelings about his team drawing a day off today. “It’s nice after a long week but once you get on a roll you like to keep going,� he said. “We’ll have a practice (today) and rest a little bit.

We’ll pretend like we’re in the OneTwo playoff game.�

He said his team’s final outing against the Green Machine “was the first game where all four us really came out to play . . . and that’s exciting if we can take this into the playoffs.� “In the playoffs, you need some guys to make a few shots and you need to make some shots that you probably shouldn’t make. For us, if we play like this and get a couple of breaks I like our chances.�

Stoughton says his late-running winning skein promotes confidence. “This is a little better,� said the skip of the Buffalo boys. “It’s sort of like what we were hoping to have for the whole week. Bit it’s good to start getting it together at the end of the week. Now we get to play on Friday so we take it from there.�

When did the light dawn that time was running out for the Manitobans? “You look in the mirror and there’s a lot of pride at stake so you just don’t want to come out and have stinkers,� said Stoughton. “You tell yourself to get your act together and play like you should be playing.

We weren’t putting big shots together and now we’re making a few more.�

Menard wasn’t overjoyed with his team’s performance in racking up its fourth and fifth straight wins to survive the preliminary. “Winning five in a row after going 2-and-4 was quite a task and we’re happy with the accomplishment,� he said. “But we over-swept some draws tonight, overthrew a draw for three and settled for two, flashed a couple of takeouts. These are the kinds of errors we can’t make against the kind of team we’re gong to be playing tomorrow — Jeff Stoughton. We have to make some corrections or it’s going to be a short-lived playoff run�.

Menard required a cold button draw in an extra end to subdue Mike Jakubo of Northern Ontario 7-6.

Earlier, he downed Rod MacDonald of P.E.I. 12-8.

B.C. and New Brunswick missed tiebreakers by a game at 65, Saskatchewan and the Territories were 3-8, Nova Scotia, Northern Ontario and the Spud Islanders 2-9.

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The Wood file

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

Brett Gallant (left) is a curler with a great future in front of him, says veteran Mark OʼRourke.

Larry WOOD

Brett Gallant an up-and-comer from Spud Island

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here curling heroes in the Far East precincts of our fair land are concerned, pickings are slim, to say nothing of lean.

In fact, Brad Gushue’s Olympic Games gold-medallists have been carrying the mail for some time now.

But, in terms of hero representatives, Gushue is a lonesome figure. Thank goodness for Newfoundland and Labrador.

In Nova Scotia, Mark Dacey and Shawn Adams have been waging war for years but, in this Brier, Dacey has struggled. Big-time.

And Adams didn’t even make it to the final four in Bluenose provincials.

In New Brunswick, Russ Howard remains the best skip but he’s getting longer in the tooth by

the ‘hurry hard’.

And on beautiful Prince Edward Island?

Well . . . hold it! Wait one minute! Career front-ender Mark O’Rourke, who shares the honour with his old skip Peter Gallant for appearing in more Briers wearing the forest green than any other (nine times, if you must know) says there’s a new, young, DownEast curling hero in the making.

Coincidentally, he’s also a Gallant. Currently the Canadian junior champion skip and leading the way this week at the world junior men’s championship at Vancouver’s Olympic icehouse.

“Brett Gallant is a great up-andcomer,” confirms O’Rourke, a 46year-old dry goods wholesaler from Charlottetown. “But he’s going to have to make some tough deci-

sions pretty quickly.

“He’s going to have to do what Brad does. He’s going to have to play the tour. I don’t think he can stay in the Maritimes. He’s going to have to get out and do some travellin’, which isn’t easy when you’re from our part of the country.

“Check with Russ (Howard).

He’ll tell anybody that. It’s not easy, it’s time-consuming, it’s expensive.

“Time will tell what’ll happen but you know this team is good enough. Brett and his kids remind me a lot of Brad and his guys.

They played in the men’s circuit in the Maritimes and qualified in every ’spiel they entered this past winter. And they’ve played with us and all those guys down home

where everybody plays with everybody.

“Believe me, these kids are determined! Their goal at the first of the year was to win the Worlds.

They’ve had five nationals as P.E.I. champs and now the Worlds.

And this year it’s a big difference.

They’ve climbed to the next level.”

O’Rourke has played with Brett’s old man in seven of his

nine Brier sorties. But the old man is now the kid’s mentor.

“After we got home from the Brier last year, Peter called me a day or two later and said Brett had asked him to coach,” recalls O’Rourke.

“Peter knew that he’d have to give up his playing career. But Peter wanted to bring Brett to the next level and I think he has. And Brett still has two more years of junior left, so he’s got some records he can set, too.”

In fact, Brett right now is tied with Gushue and Quebec’s Martin Crete for most national junior appearances. And he’s one victory short of Crete’s leading 41 victories in national competition.

“He’s the talk of the curling scene down on the Island,” says O’Rourke. “This is the first year Brett has really got out and played in men’s ’spiels. Guys like Russ and a lot of the big guns down there are pretty impressed.

These kids have all the shots, they play the big weight and they play the game that’s played out here (in the West), so it wouldn’t shock me, if they were here, to see them winning five or six games right now.”

Russ Howard confirms the potential is there.

“Brett’s got a long way to go to reach Brad’s level but I can’t think of any other kid down there any more promising. His demeanour is perfect. A lot of guys can make shots. But can they do it when they have to? He showed in the Canadian final at Salmon Arm — he was down 3-0 and it didn’t rattle him at all. Yeah, he may be the next one.”

You won’t see this gang at a Brier for a couple of years yet.

But, thereafter?

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Profiles: Nfld/Labrador HOME CLUB: BALLY HALY GOLF AND CC (ST. JOHN’S)

FACTS

Brad Gushue

THE PROVINCE Population: 533,800 Area: 405,212 sq km Joined Confederation: 1949 Motto: “See ye first the Kingdom of God” Capital City: St John’s Languages Spoken: 98.6% English, 0.4% French, 0.7% other, 0.3% bilingual Principal Products: Fish, forestry products, iron ore

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NICKNA ME: Goo AGE: 28 RESIDEN CE FAMILY: : Paradise Wife Kris ta daughte r Hayley ; (1 6 mos) EMPLOY MENT: Partner, Acme Financia l Service s HE IS: D etermine d , loyal, stu bb YOU LOV orn EC BECAUS URLING E: It is a game tha t is sible to m imposas CAREER ter.

HIGHLIGHT: 2 006 Olympic gold

Mark Nichols THIRD NICKNAME: Bam AGE: 29 RESIDENCE: St. John’s PARTNER: Single. Dog Torino, cat Nikko EMPLOYMENT: Personal trainer, Definitions Fitness Co.

NEWFOUNDLAND/LABRADOR AT THE BRIER Last five years: 2008 — Brad Gushue, St. John’s (7-5) 2007 — Brad Gushue, St. John’s (9-4) 2006 — Ken Peddigrew, St. John’s (2-9) 2005 — Brad Gushue, St. John’s (6-5) 2004 — Brad Gushue, St. John’s (8-4) Last championship — Jack McDuff, 1976

Ryan Fry SECOND AGE: 30 RESIDENCE: St. John’s PARTNER: None EMPLOYMENT: Bartender, The Martini Bar on George Street.

Canadian titles — 1: Jack McDuff 1976.

World titles — None, but Olympic gold medal (Brad Gushue, 2006) DID YOU KNOW. . .

There are no snakes, skunks, deer, porcupines or groundhogs on the island of Newfoundland. Chipmunks were introduced to Newfoundland from Nova Scotia in 1962 and 1964.

Newfoundland is one of the largest islands in the world. It is not possible to see the whole island in just a few days and at least 10 days are needed for even a brief look around.

Jamie Korab LEAD AGE: 29 RESIDENCE: Born Harbour Grace, live in St. John’s PARTNER: Engaged to Stephanie Leachman EMPLOYMENT: Bell Aliant, Marketing coordinator HE IS: Talkative, ham, charismatic YOU LOVE CURLING BECAUSE: Who said I loved curling?

CAREER HIGHLIGHT: That ‘spiel we won in Italy

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Profiles: Ontario HOME CLUB: COLDWATER AND DISTRICT CC (COLDWATER)

FACTS

Glenn Howard

THE PROVINCE Population:11,874,400 Area: 1,076,395 sq km Motto: “Loyal it began, loyal it remains” Capital City: Toronto Languages Spoken: 76% English, 5% French, 19% other Principal Products: Transportation equipment, food products nickel, gold, beef cattle, tobacco

SKIP

NICKNA M AGE: 46 E: Cliffy RESIDEN CE Penetan : guishene PARTNE R: Judy, so Wife nS daughte cott (18), r Carly (1 5) EMPLOY MENT: Manage r– Beer Sto The re (Midland ,O HE IS: P nt.) atient, intense, loy LOVES C al UR BECAUS LING E: It’s the best team sport in the world.

Richard Hart THIRD NICKNAME: Richie AGE: 40 RESIDENCE: Pickering PARTNER: Wife Margaret, sons Joseph (11), David (9), daughter Lauren (6).

EMPLOYMENT: Project manager, Hartwell Electrical HE IS: Persistent, adventurous, curious.

LOVES CURLING BECAUSE: Great way to meet people.

ONTARIO AT THE BRIER Last five years: 2008 — Glenn Howard, Coldwater (11-3) 2007 — Glenn Howard, (12-2) 2006 — Glenn Howard, (11-2) 2005 — Wayne Middaugh, Toronto (6-5) 2004 — Mike Harris, Oakville (6-5) Last championship: Glenn Howard, 2007

Brent Laing SECOND NICKNAME: Lainger AGE: 30 RESIDENCE: Horseshoe Valley, Ont. PARTNER: Leah, son – Wil (2) EMPLOYMENT: Operations manager – WeedMan – Collingwood/Barrie HE IS: No words available.

LOVES CURLING BECAUSE: The competition, the camaraderie.

Canadian titles — 9 World titles — 6 (Ed Werenich 1983,90, Russ Howard 1987,93, Wayne Middaugh 1998, Glenn Howard 2007.

DID YOU KNOW. . .

Toronto is home to the CN Tower which is located beside the Rogers Centre. Visitors can enjoy the thrill of walking on a glass floor above the streets and the vast view which on some days Niagra Falls is visible.

Craig Savill LEAD NICKNAME: Sav, #27 AGE: 30 RESIDENCE: Ottawa PARTNER: Wife Karen EMPLOYMENT: Savill Appraisal Services HE IS: I’m Number One! LOVES CURLING BECAUSE: I love competing and travelling CAREER HIGHLIGHT: 2007 Canadian and world championships.

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STANDINGS W Alberta (Martin) 11 Ontario (G. Howard) 9 NL (Gushue) 8 *Manitoba (Stoughton) 7 *Quebec (Menard) 7 B.C. (Geall) 6 N.B. (R. Howard) 6 Sask. (Jordison) 3 NWT/Y (Koe) 3 Nova Scotia (Dacey) 2 P.E.I. (MacDonald) 2 N. Ontario (Jakubo) 2

L 0 2 3 4 4 5 5 8 8 9 9 9

DRAW SCHEDULE TODAY

TIEBREAKER 1 p.m.

Manitoba (Jeff Stoughton) vs.

Quebec (Jean-Michel Menard)

* — Tiebreaker for fourth place

LINESCORES THURSDAY DRAW 15 8:30 a.m.

Manitoba (Stoughton) NL (Gushue) S P MAN. 64 223

101 030 03x x — 8 000 102 00x x — 3 % S P % 87 NL 64 187 73

— 6 PEI (MacDonald) 102 010 020 0 N. Ont (Jakubo) 020 100 201 2 — 8 S P % S P % PEI 79 246 78 N. ONT. 80 253 79 N.S. (Dacey) Ontario (G. Howard) S P N.S. 79 239 NWT/Y (Koe) B.C. (Geall) NWT/Y

201 010 200 x — 6 020 102 013 x — 9 % S P % 76 ONT. 78 264 85

010 510 22x x — 11 002 001 00x x — 3 S P % S P % 62 191 77 B.C. 64 184 72

DRAW 16 1 p.m.

Quebec (Menard) 010 312 020 3 — 12 PEI (MacDonald) 301 000 202 0 — 8 S P % S P % QUE. 80 270 84 PEI 80 255 80

Sask. (Jordison) Manitoba (Stoughton) S P SASK. 70 225

— 5 101 001 02x x 020 300 20x x — 7 % S P % 80 MAN. 71 247 87

N.B. (R. Howard) 040 202 3xx x — 11 101 020 0xx x — 4 NWT/Y (Koe) S P % S P % N.B. 55 185 84 NWT/Y 56 168 75 Alberta (Martin) Nova Scotia (Dacey) S P ALT. 72 239

110 001 103 x — 7 — 3 000 010 020 x % S P % 83 N.S. 72 213 74

DRAW 17 6 p.m.

B.C. (Geall) N.B. (R. Howard)

020 100 200 x 101 010 010 x

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New Brunswickʼs Steven Howard and Peter Case drag the rock a long way with furious brushing.

B.C.

S P % 79 256 81

S P % 80 273 85

N.B.

Ontario (G. Howard) Alberta (Martin) S P ONT. 80 269

101 001 020 0 — 5 010 020 102 1 — 7 % S P % 84 ALTA. 79 271 86

N. Ontario (Jakubo) Quebec (Menard) S P N. ONT. 88 279

010 101 020 10 — 6 201 010 101 01 — 7 % S P % 79 QUE. 88 280 80

NL (Gushue) 220 102 01x x — 8 Sask. (Jordison) 001 010 10x x — 3 S P % S P % NL 64 214 84 SASK. 64 198 77

SHOOTING PERCENTAGES (CUMULATIVE) Skip Third Second Lead TEAM

N. Ont.

B.C.

Alta.

Sask.

70 74 76 86 77

73 80 75 87 79

89 86 92 89 89

72 80 77 86 79

Man. Ont. Que. After draw 16 80 82 89 84 82 89 87 85 85 84 87 90 84 88 85

N.B.

PEI

N.S.

80 80 84 84 81

67 76 73 84 75

74 72 73 83 76

NLNWT/Y 86 81 81 83 83

72 77 80 82 78

PAGE PLAYOFF 6 p.m.

One vs. Two Alberta (Kevin Martin) vs.

Ontario (Glenn Howard) SATURDAY Three vs. Four 10 a.m.

Newfoundland /Labrador (Brad Gushue) vs.

Winner of tiebreaker Semi-final 6 p.m.

Loser of Page 1-2 vs winner of Page 3-4 SUNDAY Final 6 p.m.

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HUE BRAD GUS

Mind-boggling shots becoming part of a good teamʼs arsenal

By DAVE KOMOSKY Tankard Times Associate Editor

I

t’s the last-gasp, all-or-nothing shot.

Once, they was a hope-and-a-prayer at the Brier, a low percentage gamble with little chance of success.

But it’s a whole new ball game today.

Players are sizing up and making mind-boggling shots with startling regularity.

There doesn’t seem to be a day at the Brier when somebody’s not making some sort of circus shot, with opposition stones spinning wildly out of the house, the shooter settling on the button and the crowd roaring its approval.

And up in the booth, TSN’s Vic Rauter is exclaiming, ‘Oh, my, count ’em, one, two, three …”

It’s no coincidence that these one-in-a-million shots are being made . . . more than once.

“For one thing, the ice is so good and so consistent,” says Brad Gushue, skip of the crew from Newfoundland and Labrador and the author of some amazing shots himself.

Gushue says good ice and great players are a dynamite combination for spectacular shots.

“Players have become so skilled, they usually don’t miss the broom very much,” he says. “If they have the broom in the right place they’re going to make a lot of shots.”

The Calgary Brier has been blessed with two of the greatest ‘circus-shot’ artists of all time — Alberta’s Kevin Martin and Glenn Howard of Ontario. You never leave them anything with their last rock, because

chances are they’ll make it.

Saskatchewan skip Joel Jordison found that out the hard way on Monday when he left Howard with what looked like a near impossible shot.

So naturally, he made it.

Howard erased two Saskatchewan stones with a big-weight circus shot and wound up scoring three to win 7-6. It was a shot close to indescribable.

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

“I’d say Kevin and Glenn are right at the top (of the list) making those shots,” says Alberta third John Morris. “We’ve got faith in him (Martin) to make a lot of those shots.

Sometimes you get in trouble and need a bailout option. It’s nice when we have Kevin thowing them.”

And it’s not just the men. Manitoba’s Jennifer Jones has made a career out of some bing-bang-bong shots. Her ‘in-off’ to win the 2005 Scotties Tournament of Hearts is already part of curling’s lore.

Gushue goes so far as to say the circus shot is all part of a team’s strategy.

Somewhere in the game plan, he says, there needs to be room for the last-rock, triplecombination, angle-raise-triple-takeout.

“Because we play on this ice a lot, you can get to the point where you sometimes leave yourself a circus shot for a big score,” says the 2006 Olympic gold-medal winner.

You can credit Russ Howard, skipping the

New Brunswick side in the field, for making the circus shot part of the modern-day Brier.

He helped introduce the four-rock rule, which put more rocks in play, and ultimately the need for players to get out of tough jams with billiards-type caroms.

The ‘get-out-of-jail’ shot has become so important in today’s game, that players actually practise them.

“Oh yeah, you bet. We have to,” says Morris. “It’s those type of shots that, if you make them, will win you a game. You have to practise them.”

Gushue practises them, but only occasionally.

“I don’t like to play them as much as some other players,” he says. “A guy like Kevin Martin tends to play them a little more, but you definitely practise them because you want to see yourself making them before you have to come to a big event like this and have to try them in the 10th end of a game.”

Albertaʼs Kevin Martin has become a master at making the ridiculously tough shots look routine.

Runbacks, which were once so iffy at this level, have become routine for top-flight curlers. They expect to make them at least 60-to-70 per cent of the time.

“For the average curler, it’s a very difficult shot,” says Gushue. “But for players at this level, it’s something you expect people to make. You should always make contact with the back rock with ice this good.”

The circus shot can also be an intimidating weapon to have in your arsenal, especially if your opponent knows you know how to use it.” ”For sure,” says Morris. “It’s a big confidence booster because you can go into any end playing super aggressive and knowing that you always have that ability to get out of the end if you have to.”

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Wood From Page 9 “The adjustment will be to arena ice,� says O’Rourke. “You see none of it back home or anywhere down east. They’re going to have to go west to learn that. But, you know, Brad’s doing it and hopefully Brett and his gang make the decision to do that, too.�

Which brings up a decidedly different kettle of smelt. The future of the game in general. “I’m not sure the powers-that-be have a grip on what is going on,� says O’Rourke, who chaired the 1999 Scotties organizing committee and has been president of the Charlottetown Curling Club. “I’ve seen both sides of it,� he says, “It looks like somebody at curling’s administrative head wants one elite team in every province. I’m worried about where the game’s going. I mean, even Brett and his team will get a bunch of funding, become carded athletes, so how do the other kids expect to compete against them? And look at Newfoundland! What’s going to happen there? Brad’s going to go for the next 20 years.

Is that good for the sport? “The numbers in terms of curlers are down. If there were more young kids coming up guys

like me wouldn’t be around the Brier every year.

But I don’t think P.E.I.’s different than any of the provinces. I’m not so sure the game’s not in big trouble everywhere. I’m a little worried. “There’s no question Kevin (Martin) and Glenn (Howard) have just soared and they’re way ahead of even Jeff (Stoughton) and (Randy) Ferbey and the rest of them. I’m not sure where that came from but it certainly did. And I’d be shocked if they’re not in this final and in the Olympic trials final next year. But what does this do for the sport? “I hope it’s not too late to swing this trend in the other direction. Clubs are closing everywhere, participation is down, we paid an extra $100 surcharge to play in the provincial playdowns this year. It’s the same per event you play in. And the numbers started to drop right after they announced that. So some play in small cashspiels instead of going in the playdowns.�

O’Rourke was part of a team skipped by Robert Campbell for which great things were predicted back in the Nineties. “Yeah, a lot of people back home thought we had the team that could win for P.E.I. but it didn’t happen,� says O’Rourke. “We just didn’t develop far enough along. We played 15 or 16 years together and I’m not sure we ever reached our total potential. “Probably our biggest disappointment was in

1997. We won everything in the Maritimes and won the McCain’s East to go to the Skins Game. We made about $30,000 which was huge in the Maritimes. And we came out here and Robert was sick and I think we won three, and ever since it has been a bit of a struggle for us. “We had three or four years when we kept getting better and then it just stopped. You do what you can to compete but it’s tough. We all have our own businesses so it doesn’t pay to be away. We play five or six weekends but trying to come out west, it’s just doesn’t pay to do it.�

O’Rourke says the Brier is at higher level now. “I tell people that when we were playing in the early Nineties with Robert we could compete in this event,� he says. “It’s a struggle to compete now.

These guys play on this ice all the time and we play once a year or once every two years or whenever we get here. “In the early Nineties everybody was playing all-club ice for the most part and it was an equalizer back then. I mean, Glenn had it in your paper. It’s huge playing in those Slam events. “I can remember Brad telling me at a charity event in Charlottetown, before they won their Olympic gold, that he had scheduled everything

Brett Gallant has great potential. around events on arena ice. They drew up their whole schedule based on what ’spiels were going to be on arena ice. “It’s some kind of juggling act they have.

But it’s paying off for them now.�

And Prince Edward Island’s potential new hero, Brett Gallant, is going to have to follow down the very same path.

Friday, March 13, 2009 16

Mills a true student of the game

By KEVIN MITCHELL For the Tankard Times Editor Ron Mills, an enduring part of a long-running Saskatchewan trivia question, died in December at 65 years of age following a lengthy fight with cancer.

Mills, with skip Rick Folk, second Tom Wilson and lead Jim Wilson won the Brier (at Calgary) and world (at Moncton) titles in 1980.

It was the same season Mills joined the team as a replacement for the departed Bob Thompson.

Their season remains a benchmark on the Saskatchewan curling scene; the province

hasn’t won a Brier since Folk’s remarkable run.

Mills, a long-time Folk foe as a skip before agreeing to join the squad as a third, served as an effective conduit between the quiet Folk and the hard-sweeping Wilson brothers on the front end.

At 36, he was the old man on the team.

He was a student of the game who later moved into coaching. He also worked as a statistician with the Canadian Curling Association at many top events, including many Briers, Scotties, national juniors and mixed events and the Continental Cup. “Ron was never the guy who would go out there and beat his own drum,” Folk said from

Kelowna. “He was quietly admired by a lot of people the way he curled and the way he coached and the way he helped other curlers.

He had a big impact.”

Folk recalled sitting down with his friend and old teammate a few years ago and talking over old times. He was amazed by Mills’ memory for their run to the top of the world.

“He cherished every moment,” Folk said.

“Even though he wouldn’t go out and say ‘Hey; I’m Ron Mills,’ he remembered everything.”

“Ron was one of the most studious curlers I knew,” said Bernie Yuzdepski, a close friend of Mills who also curled with and against him for many years.

“He knew the angles, the drag . . . I learned

some things from him. He took his curling very seriously. He was a person of not too many words, but man — he knew the game as well as anyone.

“He’ll leave a big gap in curling circles, without a doubt.”

Mills was survived by his wife and best friend, Gloria; daughter, Julie and an extended family.

He was born and lived in Kindersley, Sask., attended the University of Saskatchewan and obtained a degree in Advanced Mathematics.

(Kevin Mitchell is a sportswriter with the Saskatoon StarPhoenix)

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Brier Trivia

(Answers)

QUESTION OF THE DAY: Three provinces/territories never have produced a Canadian men's curling champion. Name them.

1. Members of five of the 12 teams in the current Brier have never won the event.

Name the five teams.

2. During the past 20 years, three onetime Canadian championship competitors have skipped Alberta teams at the Brier.

Can you them, and their hometowns?

Good job if you can!

3. Name three Canadian senior men's champion skips from Alberta who also skipped teams in the Brier.

4. One of these three won the Brier. He was?

5. One of these represented another province at the Brier. Name him, the Brier

province and the year he played in the Brier.

6. Until Barry Fry won the 1979 Brier with a 10-1 record, all skips who had won 10 games were undefeated. Since Fry, how many skips have won the Canadian title with less than 10 wins?

7. Name them and the years and how many wins.

8. Name the first skip ever to win 11 games at the Brier.

9. One Brier champion was required to win less games in order to claim his title than any other in post-war history. Name him.

10. How about the year and how many wins?

11. No team ever has won the Brier while absorbing five losses. But one skip has been within one final-game victory of doing it. Who and when?

12. Who beat him?

QofD: P.E.I., New Brunswick, Territories.

1. Newfoundland/Labrador, Northern Ontario, Saskatchewan, P.E.I., Territories.

2. Harold Breckenridge, Calgary; Greg Ferster, Leduc; Ken Hunka, Edmonton.

3. Pat Ryan, Tom Reed, Les Rogers.

4. Ryan.

5. Rogers represented Saskatchewan in 1977

TODAY’S QUIZ

6. Three skips.

7. Mike Riley, nine in 1984; Al Hackner, nine in 1985; Pat Ryan, nine in 1989.

8. Ed Werenich actually won 12 in 1983.

9. Tom Ramsay of Kirkland Lake.

10. He won the 1950 Brier with seven wins.

11. Jim Sullivan of Fredericton had five losses when he stepped up to play in the 1990 Labatt Brier final.

12. Ed Werenich.

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Classic Briers From Page 6 Watson’s high-scoring foursome (all except McIntyre were schoolteachers) went on to win most of their games by scores that would have shocked today’s curling fans, even if they were curling 12-enders. Included in their record scoring was a 23-4 demolition of Quebec and a 25-5 annihilation of P.E.. (including a record-tying seven-ender), as well as the controversial 21-3 opening-draw curling lesson administered to the Ontario representatives. All-in-all “the sliding schoolteachers� outscored their opponents by the mind-boggling margin of 131 to 50

over the course of their nine round-robin games.

Yet, for all of their astonishing scoring exploits, Manitoba went into the final draw tied with New Brunswick with a 7-1 record - and by quirk of the draw, they faced each other in a winner-take-all battle for the Tankard.

The largest crowd in curling history up to that time was shoe-horned into the Granite to watch what was sure to be a classic, and they were not disappointed.

Reg Shives of Campbellton proved to be a worthy opponent for the heavily-favoured Manitobans, and with the ice getting progressively swingier as the game wore on, New Brunswick fought back from a 7-3 deficit after six to tie it at 8-8 after nine ends.

Fittingly, it came down to Ken Watson’s

With his fame and fan-pleasing Brier performance, Watson pushed the staid old game into the national limelight. final stone in the 12th facing three New Brunswick counters. And the Manitoba skip drew to the four-foot to win 11-9. It was Manitoba’s seventh title in the first 10 Briers.

With his fame and fan-pleasing Brier performance, Watson pushed the staid old

game into the national limelight. Soon curling authorities all but approved the long-slide delivery although they ruled “that no slide might go beyond the nearer hogline.�

Watson had virtually forced a rule change which was to have an enormous impact on curling’s public profile. Soon youngsters all over Canada would be trying to copy the inimitable Watson’s long-slide delivery and curling went on to unprecedented levels of popularity.

Watson would go on to win all three Briers in whichhe participated, and his 0.926 winning record in games played (252), is still a Brier record to this day.

Alex Roberts is a freelance writer based in Halifax

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