Gushue Reaches 2018 Home Hardware Canada Cup of Curling Semifinals

St. John's, Newfoundland / Labrador

SKIP
Brad
Gushue

Third
Mark
Nichols

Second
Brett
Gallant

Lead
Geoff
Walker

Games:	7
Record:	4W - 3L
PF/G:	7.94
PA/G:	6.35
Hammer Efficiency:	0.54
Steal Defense:	0.22
Force Efficiency:	0.52
Steal Efficiency:	0.26

Brad Gushue (St. John's, NL) run at the 2018 Home Hardware Canada Cup of Curling came to an end in the semifinals with a 7-5 loss to Kevin Koe (Calgary, AB). of the 2018 Home Hardware Canada Cup of Curling in Estevan, Saskatchewan;

Gushue finished 4-2 in the 7 team Home Hardware Canada Cup of Curling qualifying round, held December 5 - 9, 2018 in , . In their opening game, Gushue defeated Matt Dunstone (Regina, SK) 7-4, then went on to lose 8-4 against Brad Jacobs (Sault Ste Marie, NONT). Gushue responded with a 7-2 win over John Epping (Toronto, ON). Gushue went on to lose 9-8 against Brendan Bottcher (Edmonton, AB). Gushue responded with a 8-4 win over Mike McEwen (Winnipeg, MB). Gushue won 11-6 against Koe in their final qualifying round match.

Gushue earned 49.133 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the Home Hardware Canada Cup of Curling, dropping 1 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 3rd place overall with 497.944 total points. Gushue ranks 6th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 237.329 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2019	4	3	0	0.571	1-1	1-1	0-1	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2019	63	50	40	7.94	6.35	1.59	4.60	4.44	1.72	1.43	0.95

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2019	32	42	8	4	2-0	1-0	12-1	1.31	0.25	0.54	0.22

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2019	31	8	32	2	0-0	0-1	0-9	0.26	1.03	0.52	0.26

2019: John Epping
John Epping, Ryan Fry, Mathew Camm, Brent Laing
Toronto, ON
2018: Brad Jacobs
Brad Jacobs, Marc Kennedy, E.J. Harnden, Ryan Harnden
Sault Ste Marie, NONT
2016: Reid Carruthers
Reid Carruthers, Braeden Moskowy, Derek Samagalski, Colin Hodgson
Winnipeg, MB
2015: Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe, Marc Kennedy, Brent Laing, Ben Hebert
Calgary, AB
2014: Mike McEwen
Mike McEwen, B.J. Neufeld, Matt Wozniak, Denni Neufeld
Winnipeg, MB
2010: Glenn Howard
Glenn Howard, Richard Hart, Brent Laing, Craig Savill
Coldwater, ON

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