Sato

Fourth
Go
Aoki

SKIP
Hayato
Sato

Second
Koki
Ogiwara

Lead
Kazushi
Niino

Hayato Sato (Sapporo, JPN) needed a tiebreaker to advance to the playoffs, Sato finished 3-2 in the 30-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Sato defeated Sean Geall (New Westminster, BC) 6-3, then went on to lose 7-1 against Jacques Gauthier (Victoria, BC). Sato responded with a 5-3 win over Jason Camm (Navan, ON). Sato went on to lose 8-6 against Tanner Horgan (Sudbury, NONT). Sato responded with a 5-2 win over Reid Carruthers (Winnipeg, MB) in their final qualifying round match.

Sato earned 7.875 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Sato move up 6 spots after posting a net gain of 6.709 points improving upon their best 4 results so far this season, ranking 79th overall with 44.788 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Sato ranks 42nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 40.125 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	35	23	0	0.603	9-3	7-3	1-1	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	429	318	268	7.41	6.25	1.17	4.06	4.06	1.83	1.54	1.89

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	207	237	61	38	11-0	15-3	43-11	1.14	0.29	0.41	0.21

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	222	81	207	43	3-2	5-13	13-44	0.36	0.93	0.55	0.22

2023: Glenn Howard
Glenn Howard, Scott Howard, David Mathers, Tim March
Penetanguishene, ON
2021: Niklas Edin
Niklas Edin, Oskar Eriksson, Rasmus Wrana, Christoffer Sundgren
Karlstad, SWE
2019: Brendan Bottcher
Brendan Bottcher, Darren Moulding, Bradley Thiessen, Karrick Martin
Edmonton, AB
2018: Glen Muirhead
Glen Muirhead, Kyle Smith, Thomas Muirhead, Cameron Smith
Perth, SCO
2017: Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe, Marc Kennedy, Brent Laing, Ben Hebert
Calgary, AB

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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