CHAMPION: Gushue Wins 2022 Tim Hortons Brier

SKIP
Brad
Gushue

Third
Mark
Nichols

Second
Brett
Gallant

Lead
Geoff
Walker

Brad Gushue (St. John's, NL) won 9-8 over Kevin Koe (Calgary, AB) in the Final of the Tim Hortons Brier, held March 4 - 13, 2022 in Lethbridge, Alberta. To advance to the championship game, Gushue won 9-3 over Brendan Bottcher (Edmonton, CAN) in the semifinals of the 2022 Tim Hortons Brier in Lethbridge, Alberta;

Gushue finished 8-0 in the 18-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Gushue defeated Michael Fournier (Dollard-des-Ormeaux, QC) 9-3, then won 8-1 against Peter Mackey (Iqaluit, NU) and 8-7 against Brad Jacobs (Sault Ste Marie, NONT). Gushue won 8-3 against Jamie Koe (Yellowknife, NT), then won 9-6 against Mike McEwen (West St. Paul, MB) and 10-4 against Paul Flemming (Halifax, NS). Gushue won 6-5 against Jason Gunnlaugson (Morris, MB), then won 8-7 against Brent Pierce (New Westminster, BC) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Tim Hortons Brier Championship title, Gushue earned 89.027 world rankings points, moving up 1 spots the World Ranking Standings into 1st place overall with 446.499 total points. Gushue ranks 1st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 446.499 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	62	15	0	0.805	22-2	14-7	8-3	2-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	646	532	351	8.24	5.43	2.80	4.89	3.82	1.68	1.42	1.28

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	313	412	39	44	3-0	33-1	100-4	1.32	0.12	0.51	0.11

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	333	120	312	39	1-3	11-7	15-75	0.36	0.94	0.60	0.24

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