CHAMPION: Gushue Wins 2021 Tim Hortons Curling Trials

SKIP
Brad
Gushue

Third
Mark
Nichols

Second
Brett
Gallant

Lead
Geoff
Walker

Brad Gushue (St. John's, NL) won 4-3 over Brad Jacobs (Sault Ste. Marie, NO) in the Final Gushue advanced directly to the championship game after finishing first in the preliminary round. of the Tim Hortons Curling Trials, held November 20 - 28, 2021 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Gushue finished 7-1 in the 9-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Gushue defeated Brendan Bottcher (Edmonton, AB) 6-4, then won 7-3 against Kevin Koe (Calgary, AB) and 8-6 against John Epping (Toronto, ON). Gushue won 7-6 against Jacobs, then won 9-4 against Matt Dunstone (Regina, SK). Gushue went on to lose 7-6 against Jason Gunnlaugson (Winnipeg, MB). Gushue responded with a 10-1 win over Tanner Horgan (Kingston, ON). Gushue won 6-4 against Mike McEwen (Winnipeg, MB) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Tim Hortons Curling Trials Championship title, Gushue earned 101.234 world rankings points. Gushue move up 2 spots after posting a net gain of 49.89 points improving upon their best 3 results so far this season, ranking 1st overall with 442.466 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Gushue ranks 1st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 244.593 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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