Team Québec’s Félix Asselin (10-0; Dollard-des-Ormeaux) has been making a strong case for another championship title at the 2026 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship in Woodstock, P.E.I. The 2022 championship team returned to the mixed event looking to reclaim the Canadian title and is on a promising path.
Asselin, third Laurie St-Georges, second Émile Asselin and lead Emily Riley enter Saturday’s semifinal against Team Nova Scotia’s Brent MacDougall (7-3; Halifax) with an undefeated record.
“I would say it’s a bit of a grind so far,” said Asselin. “We may not be playing our super A game, but we’re battling hard in every one of them, and we’ve got good adversity from our opponents so far. It’s not been easy, but we’ve battled through and so far, so good.”
Québec secured its first-place spot in pool play after a 9-6 win over Team New Brunswick’s Sylvie Quillian (7-3; Moncton) Friday morning. Friday evening, the Québec team completed its perfect pool play run with a 6-4 win over Nova Scotia.
Friday morning’s game came down to the last rock in an extra-end finish. Asselin, with the game on the line, sent his stone tearing into the pile surrounding the button. His rock removed the two New Brunswick stones and took three points to end the game.
Asselin led the same team to the Canadian mixed title in 2022 and went on to capture bronze at the 2023 World Mixed Curling Championship in Aberdeen, Scotland. This year marks the team’s first appearance at this event since.
“We know we can do it. So, we just try and recreate what happened last time and hopefully it works well, but obviously we have a lot of good teams still left to play that are going to want to win,” said Asselin. “Just taking it one game at a time and hopefully the same magic happens.”
Québec, New Brunswick, Northern Ontario, and Nova Scotia had already clinched playoff spots before Friday evening’s draw began. The results of that draw determined Saturday morning’s semifinal matchups.
New Brunswick fell 9-0 to Northern Ontario on Friday evening, but a three-way tie in the standings with Northern Ontario and Nova Scotia meant the teams’ head-to-head records could not separate them. The last-stone draw (LSD) scores broke the tie, with New Brunswick ranked first, Northern Ontario second and Nova Scotia third among the three teams.
Saturday morning’s semifinals will be a rematch of Friday evening’s draw, with Québec facing Nova Scotia and New Brunswick taking on Northern Ontario.
The semifinals will begin Saturday at 10 a.m. (all times Atlantic). The winners advance to the gold-medal game, and the losers will play for bronze, with both medal games scheduled for 2:30 p.m.
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