Kanazawa4-3 at 2022 Hokkaido Curling Championships

SKIP
Naoki
Kanazawa

Third
Haruto
Ouchi

Second
Takuto
Ouchi

Lead
Ryo
Aoki

Naoki Kanazawa (Japan) finished 4-3 in the 8 team Hokkaido Curling Championships qualifying round, held January 12 - 17, 2022 in , . In their opening game, Kanazawa defeated Toa Nakahara (Japan) 9-2, then went on to lose 6-1 against Masaki Ishikawa (Japan). Kanazawa responded with a 5-4 win over Kohsuke Hirata (Japan). Kanazawa won 8-3 against Ryouichi Saitou (Japan). Kanazawa went on to lose 7-3 against Yuya Takigahira (Japan). Kanazawa lost 8-3 to Go Aoki (Sapporo, JPN) where Kanazawa responded with a 9-1 win over Harunobu Kawahira (Japan) in their final qualifying round match.

Kanazawa earned 0.900 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 67 spots the World Ranking Standings into 379th place overall with 1.018 total points. Kanazawa ranks 316th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.900 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	4	3	0	0.571	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	45	38	31	8.44	6.89	1.56	4.89	3.78	1.73	1.82	1.33

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	23	27	6	4	2-0	1-1	4-0	1.17	0.26	0.37	0.17

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	22	11	25	2	0-1	1-2	2-4	0.50	1.14	0.46	0.32

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