Gauthier3-5 at 2023 Tim Hortons Brier

SKIP
Jacques
Gauthier

Third
Sterling
Middleton

Second
Jason
Ginter

Lead
Alex
Horvath

Jacques Gauthier (Victoria, BC) finished 3-5 in the 18-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Gauthier lost 6-5 to Brad Gushue (St. John's, CAN), droppimg another game, 10-8 to Thomas Scoffin (Whitehorse, YK). Gauthier lost 9-3 to Brendan Bottcher (Calgary, AB) where Gauthier responded with a 8-5 win over Karsten Sturmay (Edmonton, AB). Gauthier won 10-4 against Scott Jones (Moncton, NB). Gauthier went on to lose 7-6 against Felix Asselin (Montreal, QC). Gauthier lost 10-6 to Mike McEwen (Toronto, ON) where Gauthier responded with a 9-2 win over Tyler Smith (Charlottetown , PEI) in their final qualifying round match.

Gauthier earned 10.688 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, remaining in 34th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 1.253 after improving upon their best so far this season. Gauthier ranks 34th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 113.938 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	40	30	0	0.571	7-3	7-7	1-4	1-0	1-3

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	539	409	351	7.59	6.51	1.08	4.68	4.14	1.62	1.57	1.19

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	252	292	69	29	3-0	27-5	55-9	1.16	0.27	0.38	0.20

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	287	117	282	35	3-3	6-21	17-58	0.41	0.98	0.53	0.28

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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