CHAMPION: Gushue Wins 2023 Tim Hortons Brier

SKIP
Brad
Gushue

Third
Mark
Nichols

Second
E.J.
Harnden

Lead
Geoff
Walker

Brad Gushue (St. John's, CAN) won 7-5 over Matt Dunstone (Winnipeg, MB) in the Final of the Tim Hortons Brier, held March 3 - 12, 2023 in London, Ontario.

Gushue finished 7-1 in the 18-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Gushue defeated Jacques Gauthier (Victoria, BC) 6-5, then went on to lose 6-4 against Mike McEwen (Toronto, ON). Gushue responded with a 13-9 win over Scott Jones (Moncton, NB). Gushue won 8-7 against Felix Asselin (Montreal, QC), then won 8-6 against Tyler Smith (Charlottetown , PEI) and 6-3 against Brendan Bottcher (Calgary, AB). Gushue won 8-3 against Karsten Sturmay (Edmonton, AB), then won 8-3 against Thomas Scoffin (Whitehorse, YK) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Tim Hortons Brier Championship title, Gushue earned 71.250 world rankings points, remaining in 5th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of -0.85899999999998 after improving upon their best so far this season. Gushue ranks 4th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 315.750 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	60	17	0	0.779	17-3	12-5	4-2	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	608	543	325	8.93	5.35	3.59	5.02	3.82	1.78	1.40	1.17

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	281	430	22	33	16-0	27-0	94-5	1.53	0.08	0.55	0.06

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	327	113	303	38	2-1	8-11	17-63	0.35	0.93	0.65	0.23

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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