Calvert2-3 at 2023 Nutrien Ag Solutions Western Showdown

SKIP
Braden
Calvert

Third
Corey
Chambers

Second
Kyle
Kurz

Lead
Brendan
Bilawka

Braden Calvert (Winnipeg, MB) finished 2-3 in the 18-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Calvert defeated Carl deConinck Smith (Fox Valley, SK) 5-1, then went on to lose 5-3 against Yannick Schwaller (Geneve, SUI). Calvert lost 6-2 to Ryan Wiebe (Winnipeg, MB) where Calvert responded with a 8-5 win over deConinck Smith. Calvert went on to lose 5-4 against Karsten Sturmay (Edmonton, AB) in their final qualifying round match.

Calvert earned 4.500 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Calvert move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 3 points improving upon their best 6 results so far this season, ranking 47th overall with 79.184 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Calvert ranks 50th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 51.375 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	35	17	0	0.673	3-0	0-0	2-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	330	275	207	8.33	6.27	2.06	4.91	3.85	1.70	1.63	1.24

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	169	206	38	24	6-0	16-1	39-7	1.22	0.22	0.42	0.17

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	161	69	169	17	1-5	2-11	16-32	0.43	1.05	0.51	0.29

2023: Yannick Schwaller
Benoit Schwarz van-Berkel, Yannick Schwaller, Sven Michel, Pablo Lachat
Geneve, SUI
2022: Niklas Edin
Niklas Edin, Oskar Eriksson, Rasmus Wrana, Christoffer Sundgren
Karlstad, SWE
2021: Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe, John Morris, B.J. Neufeld, 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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