Bottcher3-3 at 2021 IG Wealth Management Western Showdown

SKIP
Brendan
Bottcher

Third
Darren
Moulding

Second
Bradley
Thiessen

Lead
Karrick
Martin

Brendan Bottcher (Edmonton, AB) finished 3-3 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Bottcher defeated Sam Wills (Regina, SK) 8-4, then went on to lose 8-4 against Karsten Sturmay (Edmonton, AB). Bottcher responded with a 8-4 win over Shaun Meachem (Swift Current, SK). Bottcher went on to lose 7-6 against Pat Simmons (Winnipeg, MB). Bottcher responded with a 8-5 win over Ryan Wiebe (Winnipeg, MB). Bottcher went on to lose 5-3 against Jason Jacobson (Saskatoon, SK) in their final qualifying round match.

Bottcher earned 9.264 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, dropping 2 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 7th place overall with 208.127 total points. Bottcher ranks 29th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 34.138 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	42	24	0	0.636	11-6	9-7	7-5	1-1	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	519	391	306	7.53	5.90	1.64	4.47	3.78	1.69	1.56	1.75

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	247	310	41	40	7-0	20-3	66-5	1.26	0.17	0.45	0.12

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	272	81	265	51	2-4	5-14	10-58	0.30	0.97	0.54	0.20

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Benoit Schwarz van-Berkel, Yannick Schwaller, Sven Michel, Pablo Lachat
Geneve, SUI
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Niklas Edin, Oskar Eriksson, Rasmus Wrana, Christoffer Sundgren
Karlstad, SWE
2021: Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe, John Morris, B.J. Neufeld, Ben Hebert
Calgary, AB

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