Edin Runner-Up at 2017 Ford World Men's Curling Championship

SKIP
Niklas
Edin

Third
Oskar
Eriksson

Second
Rasmus
Wrana

Lead
Christoffer
Sundgren

Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE) lost 4-2 to Brad Gushue (St. John's, CAN) in the Final of the Ford World Men's Curling Championship, held April 1 - 9, 2017 in Edmonton, Alberta.

Edin finished 9-2 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Edin defeated Rui Liu (Harbin, CHN) 10-7, then won 8-2 against Alexander Baumann (Fuessen, GER). Edin went on to lose 8-6 against Gushue. Edin responded with a 8-6 win over Steffen Walstad (Oslo, NOR). Edin won 8-5 against Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN), then won 8-2 against Joel Retornaz (Trentino, ITA) and 10-5 against Alexey Stukalskiy (Moscow, RUS). Edin won 6-4 against David Murdoch (Lockerbie, SCO), then won 10-4 against Peter De Cruz (Geneva, SUI). Edin went on to lose 7-3 against John Shuster (Duluth, USA). Edin responded with a 8-2 win over Jaap van Dorp (Zoetermeer, NED) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Ford World Men's Curling Championship, Edin take home 57.057 world rankings points. For week 34 of the event schedule, Edin did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Edin ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 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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