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On the second day of Edmonton , Brad Gushue won his third game of his first ever world championship. The only other time a Newfoundland team won the Brier, back in , Jack MacDuff went to the Worlds in Duluth and only managed to […]. Oh, the shame of it. The humiliation. And further shame. Further humiliation. First, the crutches. Ninety-year-old Matt Baldwin, wearing his old wool Alberta sweater from 63 years ago, held the broom.

Riesen, chosen 14th overall in the draft by the Edmonton Oilers out of Switzerland, was a spectacular bust. Since Glenn Howard won the world title in Edmonton in , the event has been held in Canada on four occasions and a Canadian team has only managed to win one of them. Niklas Edin of Sweden has […]. No skip has ever won Olympic, world and world junior gold medals. None of us has ever heard of that before.

Everywhere we went they wanted to tell us how they experienced the week. If I went to a restaurant, a grocery store or anywhere in public just because people recognized us and wanted to come up and congratulate us. Somebody by the name of Joel Retornaz of Italy beat Gushue. So, did Gushue circle that date on the schedule for next week? Well, yes. They gave us a good battle. Then, heading into the final weekend of the Brier, lead Geoff Walker pulled a muscle in his shoulder.

With the win, Brad Gushue becomes the first skip to ever win gold at the world juniors, world championships, and Olympic Games. Longtime third Mark Nichols now also owns all three titles. The World. As expected when the top two teams were squaring off for the third time in the tournament, this one was a nailbiter.

After blanking the first end, Gushue was forced to make an easy nose hit for a single point in the second. But Swedish skip Niklas Edin could do no better on his first hammer opportunity, drawing to the button to tie it In the fourth, Gushue had a shot at two points, but after a successful hit, his shooter rolled just a bit too far and he had to settle for one.

But then it took a great shot to hold Edin to a single in the fifth. After a beautiful double takeout on his first throw, he got the hit to lie three, leading to Edin making a hit to tie it up again. After blanking the sixth and seventh, Canada took last rock into the eighth end. After a failed attempt at a double takeout on his first stone, Gushue was facing two Swedish rocks but he cleared them both and his own to hold onto the hammer. They finally got a multiple point end in the ninth when Gushue was able to draw to the four foot for two and the lead going home.

In the tenth, Gushue made an impressive double takeout on his first stone to lie three. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.

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