LAS VEGAS — The rookie came through in style for Team World on Thursday morning at the 2017 World Financial Group Continental Cup, presented by Boyd Gaming.
LAS VEGAS — Both the reigning world men’s and women’s curling champions will be on the ice on Thursday morning to kick off the 2017 World Financial Group Continental Cup, presented by Boyd Gaming.
With the 2018 Winter Olympics just 13 months away, curling fans will get an advance look at many of the teams that will be chasing gold in South Korea when the 2017 World Financial Group Continental Cup, presented by Boyd Gaming, gets underway Thursday at Orleans Arena in Las Vegas.
Don’t call it a comeback…
When you look at this year’s Canadian Team Ranking System men’s standings, it’s very easy to forget that Brad Gushue has barely played this season due to injury.
Wes Czarnecki knows that in many Saskatchewan communities, the curling club is “The Place”, the social hub, and he’s determined to foster that small-town, welcoming, inclusive atmosphere, even in the city. As General Manager of the busy Tartan Curling Club in Regina, Czarnecki is using savvy business initiatives to bring curlers – new and seasoned – through the doors of his club and keep them coming back for more.
As Canadians across the country settle into the meat of the holiday season, top curlers are no exception. Most teams take a week or two around Christmas to spend time with family, and recharge the batteries before the competitive playdown season ramps up again in January.
One of curling’s legendary front-enders passed away on Monday night in Vancouver.
Teams from Manitoba and Ontario won the championship trophies at the 2016 Travelers Curling Club Championship last month, in Kelowna, B.C., but the winning didn’t stop there.
To say Brad Jacobs got his season back on track would be rude. By most team’s standards, it was never really off track. With a World Curling Tour win in Saskatoon and a Grand Slam runner-up in Okotoks, Alta., it would seem that the Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., foursome was playing at a high level.
Before Tuesday night, Brad Gushue hadn’t thrown a rock in a competitive setting since April. Somehow, despite playing three months of the season without their veteran skip, Team Brad Gushue still sits atop the Canadian Team Ranking System men’s standings, thanks to superior efforts from Mark Nichols, Brett Gallant and Geoff Walker.
The final two pieces of the puzzle have been filled in for the 2017 World Financial Group Continental Cup, presented by Boyd Gaming.
The world’s best women’s curling teams will contest a world title in North Bay, Ont., it was announced jointly today by Curling Canada and the World Curling Federation.