Michel3-6 at 2014 Olympic Winter Games

SKIP
Sven
Michel

Third
Claudio
Paetz

Second
Sandro
Trolliet

Lead
Simon
Gempeler

Sven Michel (Adelboden, SUI) finished 3-6 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Michel lost 7-5 to Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE), then responded with a 5-4 win over Brad Jacobs (Sault Ste Marie, CAN). Michel went on to lose 5-4 against Rui Liu (Harbin, CHN). Michel lost 4-2 to David Murdoch (Stirling, UK). Michel lost 7-6 to Andrey Drozdov (Moscow, RUS). Michel lost 8-7 to Johnny Jahr (Fuessen, GER) where Michel responded with a 9-3 win over Rasmus Stjerne (Hvidovre, DEN). Michel went on to lose 5-3 against Thomas Ulsrud (Oslo, NOR). Michel responded with a 6-3 win over John Shuster (Duluth, USA) in their final qualifying round match.

Michel earned 9.000 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, remaining in 11th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 3.19 after improving upon their best so far this season. Michel ranks 9th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 129.430 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	68	45	0	0.602	44-9	16-27	15-12	1-1	0-2

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	883	615	536	6.96	6.07	0.89	4.28	3.99	1.63	1.52	1.73

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	424	477	94	68	9-1	30-5	103-10	1.13	0.22	0.40	0.17

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	459	138	442	85	2-8	6-19	26-98	0.30	0.96	0.56	0.20

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

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