Dropkin1-3 at HearingLife Tour Challenge Tier 1

SKIP
Korey
Dropkin

Third
Andrew
Stopera

Second
Mark
Fenner

Lead
Thomas
Howell

Korey Dropkin (Duluth, MN) finished 1-3 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Dropkin defeated Yannick Schwaller (Geneve, SUI) 8-3, then went on to lose 6-4 against Magnus Ramsfjell (Trondheim, NOR). Dropkin lost 5-4 to Aaron Sluchinski (Airdrie, AB). Dropkin lost 8-2 to Brendan Bottcher (Calgary, AB) in their final qualifying round match.

Dropkin earned 3.750 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Dropkin gained -25.547 points improving upon their best 4 events, though dropped 1 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 12thplace overall with 203.234 total points. Dropkin ranks 26th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 56.750 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	33	31	0	0.516	13-4	4-6	1-2	0-1	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	476	361	311	7.58	6.53	1.05	4.52	3.95	1.68	1.65	1.53

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	241	257	56	44	3-0	13-5	64-6	1.07	0.23	0.41	0.17

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	235	104	255	29	2-6	12-18	15-51	0.44	1.09	0.49	0.25

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2022: Niklas Edin
Niklas Edin, Oskar Eriksson, Rasmus Wrana, Christoffer Sundgren
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2019: Brad Jacobs
Brad Jacobs, Marc Kennedy, E.J. Harnden, Ryan Harnden
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2018: Brad Jacobs
Brad Jacobs, Ryan Fry, E.J. Harnden, Ryan Harnden
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2017: Brad Gushue
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2016: Niklas Edin
Niklas Edin, Oskar Eriksson, Rasmus Wrana, Christoffer Sundgren
Karlstad, SWE
2015: 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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