Edin Runner-Up at 2018 Curling World Cup Omaha

SKIP
Niklas
Edin

Third
Oskar
Eriksson

Second
Rasmus
Wrana

Lead
Christoffer
Sundgren

Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE) lost 3-1 to John Shuster (Duluth, USA) in the Final of the Curling World Cup Omaha, held December 5 - 9, 2018 in Omaha, Nebraska.

Edin finished 5-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Edin defeated Yuta Matsumura (Sapporo, JPN) 7-4, then went on to lose 6-3 against Thomas Ulsrud (Oslo, NOR). Edin responded with a 8-2 win over Yannick Schwaller (Bern, SUI). Edin won 7-2 against Matsumura, then won 7-2 against Ulsrud and 8-4 against Schwaller in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Curling World Cup Omaha, Edin take home 43.227 world rankings points along with the $23,306CDN prize, remaining in 1st place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 39.267 after improving upon their best so far this season. Edin ranks 3rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 280.918 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

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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