Kiiskinen3-5 at 2021 Olympic Qualification Event

SKIP
Kalle
Kiiskinen

Third
Teemu
Salo

Second
Leo
Ouni

Lead
Paavo
Kuosmanen

Kalle Kiiskinen (Hyvinkaa, FIN) finished 3-5 in the 9-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kiiskinen lost 9-5 to Joel Retornaz (Pinerolo, ITA), droppimg another game, 8-3 to Lukas Klima (Prague, CZE). Kiiskinen lost 9-2 to Mikkel Krause (Hvidovre, DEN). Kiiskinen lost 8-6 to Sixten Totzek (Munich, GER) where Kiiskinen responded with a 7-5 win over Jaap van Dorp (Zoetermeer, NED). Kiiskinen went on to lose 7-4 against Steffen Walstad (Oslo, NOR). Kiiskinen responded with a 5-3 win over SooHyuk Kim (Uiseong, KOR). Kiiskinen won 8-2 against Yuta Matsumura (Kitami, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Kiiskinen earned 8.016 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Kiiskinen move up 17 spots after posting a net gain of 6.758 points improving upon their best 4 results so far this season, ranking 99th overall with 44.014 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Kiiskinen ranks 74th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 36.825 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	26	29	0	0.473	12-7	5-13	3-3	1-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	459	316	332	6.88	7.23	-0.35	4.20	4.53	1.64	1.60	1.26

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	241	247	93	32	10-2	14-5	37-14	1.02	0.39	0.29	0.26

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	218	69	239	26	3-3	4-13	6-58	0.32	1.10	0.49	0.21

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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