Hallstrom2-3 at 2016 Swedish National Championship

SKIP
Rickard
Hallstroem

Third
Filip
Stener

Second
Mikael
Risvall

Lead
Marcus
Olovsson

Rickard Hallstrom (Ostersund, SWE) finished 2-3 in the 14-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Hallstrom lost 6-4 to Marcus Hagloef (Borlange, SWE), droppimg another game, 10-2 to Rasmus Wrana (Harnosand, SWE) where Hallstrom responded with a 6-2 win over Erik Janze (Umea, SWE). Hallstrom won 7-2 against K-G Pettersson (Linkoping, SWE). Hallstrom went on to lose 9-1 against Michael Vilenius (Stocksund, SWE) in their final qualifying round match.

Hallstrom earned 1.756 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 223 spots the World Ranking Standings into 414th place overall with 1.756 total points. Hallstrom ranks 351st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 1.756 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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