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Issue 1 – Saturday, March 28, 2015
FROM SNOW
TO WHOA!
Winter-weary Halifax
turns its attention
to Ford Worlds
Canada’s Pat Simmons (left) and defending champion Thomas Ulsrud of Norway are
making sure fans have a clear path to the Ford World Men’s Curling Championship.
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Saturday, March 28, 2015
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Team Canada looking for victorious ending to story
T
hey don’t have
to replace them with Marc
journalism degrees,
Kennedy and Ben Herbert
Carter Rycroft or Nolan
from retired Kevin Martin’s
Thiessen. No one on Team
team and Brent Laing from
Canada has ever worked for
Glenn Howard’s fading
a newspaper or for any other
foursome to create a better
media outlet.
team to take forward to the
But they think they know
next Olympic quadrennial.
a story when they see one.
One problem. Koe still
And they
had to go to
expect to
Beijing with
see one in
these three
their hotel
guys and
room mirrors
try to play
every
together one
morning
last time
TERRY
here.
wearing the
“My
maple leaf for
JONES
KOMOSKY
feeling is
Canada at the
that this has
World Curling
the potential
Championship
to be a very
in Beijing.
neat story for a long time to
They were a double dog
come,” said Rycroft of the 10
disaster.
days ahead at the Ford World
Indeed, they became the
Curling Championships.
only Canadian team in
“If you think of all the
history to play three playoff
factors that play into it, I
games at the Worlds and
think we have a chance to
lose them all. It was only
write a super sports story.
the third time in the past 30
From what Pat Simmons
years Canada didn’t come
did at skip at the Brier, the
home with a medal.
change with John Morris
“You know, the night after
moving down from skip, all the winning the Brier in Calgary
underlying stories from what
and for the next few days, we
happened to us at Worlds last
started to talk about it. And
year with the team breaking
it’s pretty cool, I think,” said
up and everything, it has all
Thiessen of the story they’ve
the makings of a very special
authored and the ending they
story in Canadian sports,” he
might now write.
added.
“On the plane coming home
“It’s crazy. It’s already an
from Beijing, you look at
amazing story. I don’t think
each other and never know
another Brier will likely
if you’re going to get another
ever have that story,” said
one of those chances. It
Thiessen of what happened
really sucked that we gave
three weeks ago in Calgary.
up another opportunity there
Last year, Edmonton area
in China so it’s pretty cool
curlers Rycroft and Thiessen
we get another chance to
won the Brier in Kamloops
hopefully write a different
along with Moose Jaw third
ending.
Pat Simmons and Calgary“It’s definitely exciting and
based skip Kevin Koe. Then
it really adds to it, I think,
Koe dumped them, deciding
that we have such sour tastes
«
Thomas Ulsrud is
looking to repeat as
world champion.
Back-to-back
winners a rarity
DAVE
Team
Canada
second
Carter
Rycroft
feels his
team has
the makings
of a
beautiful
story.
in our mouths the way we
played in Beijing and being
on the losing end of all those
playoff games.”
Three weeks ago in
Calgary, the trio — with
John Morris replacing
Koe, despite playing an
abbreviated schedule and
only qualifying for the
playoffs in one event and
finishing fifth in that — went
and won the Brier again.
And as is the team history,
they did it the hard way.
“I can’t believe that
just happened,” said lead
Thiessen moments after
Simmons drew the button
on 11th end to win 6-5 over
Olympic gold medal winner
Brad Jacobs and make the
two front-end curlers the
29th and 30th to win three
Briers.
S e e J ONES
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By JOHN KOROBANIK
Eye Opener Associate Editor
I
t took Norway’s Thomas Ulsrud
nine tries before he finally won
a world men’s curling championship, so naturally he’s not eager to
surrender that title here this week. If
he thought it was tough winning his
first title, now comes the real difficult challenge — trying to successfully defend the title.
Ulsrud, third Torger Nergård,
second Christoffer Svae and lead
Håvard Vad Petersson won their first
Ford World Men’s Curling Championship last year in Beijing, China
with an 8-3 win over Oskar Eriksson
of Sweden.
To repeat as champions they will
have to do something that has been
accomplished only four times in
the last 50 years of the men’s world
championship — and all by Canadian teams. Ron Northcott in 1968-69,
Don Duguid in 1970-71 and Randy Ferbey in 2010-11 are the only
teams to win back-to-back world
men’s titles.
So why is it so difficult to defend
the title?
“That’s probably only because
we haven’t been champions before,”
the joking Ulsrud said with a hearty
laugh as he sat in the stands of the
Scotiabank Centre Friday, waiting
for his team’s practice time.
Seriously, though, Ulsrud goes
into this event one of the heavy
favourites, along with Canada,
skipped by Pat Simmons, Sweden’s
Niklas Edin and Ewan MacDonald of Scotland. Switzerland, which
won the bronze last year, and Japan,
which made the playoffs for the first
time in 2014, are also expected to be
involved come next weekend.
Momentum, said Canadian third
Johnny Morris, who won Olympic gold
in 2010 and the world title in 2008 with
Kevin Martin, and confidence, said Ulsrud, will be two key factors in ultimately determining this year’s champions.
And you can add consistently strong
play, said Simmons.
S e e RA RI T Y
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FROM PAGE 2
“We were 2-3. We changed our skip.
And we just won the Brier! I can’t
believe that happened. We put a rock on
the button on the 11th end to win the
Brier. It’s every front-ender’s dream,” he
said of Simmons taking over from Morris
at skip in the only mid-Brier switch in
skips in history and going 8-1 the rest of
the way.
Flash forward to Thursday, where the
team held two practices at CFB Halifax
to prepare for Saturday’s opener against
John Shuster of the U.S.A.
Rycroft can see a completely different
script to how this one ends compared to
the Worlds last year.
“From the venue to it being Canada
and Halifax to the dynamics of our
team at this moment, it’s entirely the
opposite. We are on a team that’s on the
way up compared to a team being on the
way to being out or done or whatever you
want to call it.
“I would say everything feels
completely different than it felt like last
year. It’s night and day different from
going into the World’s last year and
going into this one.
“Forget the rest of the teams that are
here. The favourites are probably the
same teams as last year. I don’t think
any of that has changed. We are what
has changed. Just about everything
involving us has changed.”
Rycroft was in a different space than
Thiessen and Simmons. He’d let it be
known he intended to take this year off.
“My goal was to win the world
championship and be content. There
might have been more on Nolan’s
and Pat’s minds and on Kevin’s mind
considering the circumstances,” said
Rycroft.
“Part of you says, ‘Things change
and it happens all the time in curling,’
and part of you says, ‘If a guy doesn’t
want to curl with you anymore, a guy
doesn’t want to curl with you anymore.’
What I found tough was the perception
that ‘Well, those guys are done, they’re
not good anymore and that’s why he’s
changing his team to have a new super
team’,” said Thiessen.
“We didn’t see ourselves like that and
I think the Brier win kind of justifies
our view of ourselves. We’re pretty good
players, too. You can’t shake a stick at
three Brier titles. I think that gave us a
After John Morris moved to third during the
Tim Hortons Brier in Calgary and Pat
Simmons took over as skip, Team Canada
powered its way to the top.
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little more motivation, maybe, to show
the public that we weren’t cast-offs and
afterthoughts. There’s some validation
there for us.”
They’d been there before. They’d been
world champions.
Four years earlier, in Cortinad’Ampezzo, Italy, with Blake MacDonald
at third, the team went 9-2 to finish
second to Norway in the round robin but
absolutely dominated in the playoffs,
clobbering Norway 11-5 in the 1-2 game
and 9-3 in the gold medal game. Koe,
MacDonald and Rycroft all curled 95 per
cent in the final.
This was a horror story.
“The one in Italy was a really small
rink. It was 1,000 people in a 2,000seat arena. But Beijing was a 17,000seat arena and there were 75 people in
the stands. It didn’t have the same feel
that it will hopefully have here,” said
Thiessen.
“In China, I think our team handled a
lot of the culture change very well over
there. There were a lot of things going
against us and we just didn’t find a way
to fight through it,” he added.
“We had all that stuff with the team
coming to an end that came out before
we went there. As much as you could
think that you could be professional and
you can put that behind you, there was
maybe more to it than you could accept,”
said Rycroft.
“But having it in China had more to
do with what happened than the team
stuff, from my point of view. We were
Northern Alberta boys going to a smogfilled city where I had a sore throat from
10 minutes after I landed there until I
came home.
“The ice conditions are hard to
describe to people. For the first half of
the week, we had water that wouldn’t
freeze because it had petroleum products
in it. It was unbelievable.
“Any stories you may have heard of
them having to go and import a bunch
of water, that’s all true. They were in
big trouble. Whatever they used as
containers to bring the water in had
been used to contain petroleum products
before and when you went to freeze it,
the petroleum would rise to the top and
parts of it would freeze and other parts
of it wouldn’t.
“I can remember them going down the
ice with a scraper and it was literally
waves of water. It was bad.
“The ice makers did their best, but it’s
a country that isn’t real good at making
fast decisions and changing things
because that’s the way they work. You
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The Eye Opener predicts the playoff-bound teams
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NORWAY
Alt for Norge
Pat Simmons
Niklas Edin
Glencoe Curling Club
Calgary
Ewan MacDonald
Karlstad Curlingklubb
Karlstad
Thomas Ulsrud
Various curling clubs
Snarøen Curling Club
Oslo
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Rarity
old. “Needed to have a quiet season for a couple of guys. If they
wanted to stay married, they had
to slow down a bit this year. So I’m
excited to see how we do.
FROM PAGE 3
“All the guys are prepared and
“There are a lot of teams that excited to get out and start playwill beat you if you’re not playing ing, but then again, there could be
really well,” said Simmons, who some rust at the beginning so we
took over as skip of Team Canada just have to wait and see. Hopefulmidway through the Tim Hortons ly we’ll manage to get it started.”
Ulsrud opens against China, the
Brier, when the team had struggled
U.S. and Russia. Only China, at
to a 2-3 record. He
6-5, had a winwent on to lead
ning record last
them on an 8-1 run
year.
to win the Brier
“On
paper,
and a berth in this
we have a pretty
year’s worlds.
decent chance,”
“There are the
Ulsrud said of
more experienced If they wanted to
his early schedteams like Ulsrud
ule. “We have a
and Edin … Niklas stay married, they
just played real- had to slow down a couple of game
under our belts
ly well at the last
slam so you know bit this year. So I’m before we play
they’re going to be excited to see how Canada, so that
will be good.”
coming in playing
After taking
well. Then there we do.
long to finalare teams like Ja­— Thomas Ulsrud so
ly win a world
pan and China...
title, Ulsrud and
Japan has real good
chance after making the playoffs his team don’t want to give it up,
but know they’ll need a lot of exlast year.”
Simmons, who made a last-rock cellent play on their part, some key
draw to the button to beat Brad Ja- shots from everyone and a little bit
cobs and win the Brier, is comfort- of luck along the way.
“Basically you have to have a
able back in the role of skip and
week where everything comes
feels confident in his team.
“We’re as prepared as we could together,” said Ulsrud. “We had
be, I think. It was a quick turn- that last year in Beijing and we’re
around, which was a good thing trying to recreate that. It’s small
for us, I think. We had a little bit of things; all the players have to
time to rest and catch up on some have the right feel for the ice.
sleep after the Brier and then get There’s going to be a lot of close
practising. I think we’re as ready as games and instead of wrecking on
a guard you just sneak by, stuff
we want to be.”
Such might not be the case for Ul- like that. Curling is no different
srud and his team who have played a from other sports, it’s all about
confidence. As soon as you start
lighter schedule this winter.
“It looks good in practice. The winning a couple of games you
problem is we haven’t played as gain confidence and hopefully it
much this year,” said the 43-year- just keeps on going.”
“
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The Canadians did it the hard way in
making it on to the world stage, stumbling
out of the gate at the Tim Hortons Brier,
shuffling the lineup in mid-week and then
roaring back to life to win it all under
third-turned-skip Pat Simmons. This team
knows adversity and how to deal with it. If
Simmons can repeat the performance he
had in Calgary, they’re the winners.
The 2013 world men’s champ is back for
another crack at the title after winning a
bronze for his country at the Olympics last
year, and he’s always tough. Edin will have a
whole new lineup, and a good one, this time
around after the breakup of his old team last
year, but the Swedes look as stong as ever.
Edin has won three medals at the worlds.
Look for him to win a fourth.
MacDonald has plenty of experience,
and had plenty of success, at the world
championship, but mostly throwing third
or second stones. MacDonald skipped
the Scottish lads last year in Beijing and
stumbled home with a woebegone 3-8
record. That won’t sit well with him and he
will want to make up for that with a stellar
performance in Halifax.
Mr. Fancy Pants is back at the world
championship for a remarkable 11th
appearance, and fifth in a row. The
defending champion will be one of the
favourites in a good field. But it’s tough
to win back-to-back championships. Only
four teams have won back-to-back titles
in the history of the event, and they’re all
from Canada.
- 2015 Ford World Men’s Curling Championship
CURLING QUIZ
1. Boy Meets Curl was:
a) An episode of The Simpsons
b) A made-for-TV curling movie starring Will
Ferrell and Jim Carrey
c) The first album released by Miley Cyrus
d) A show starring Justin Bieber during the 2014
Continental Cup in Las Vegas
2. True or False: Team Europe alternate David
Murdoch of Scotland is from Lockerbie and was
an eyewitness to the Pan Am Flight 103 disaster
in 1988 in which 259 passengers and 11 townfolk
were killed.
3. Hans Wuthrich is:
a) The first Swiss skip to win the world
championship.
b) A renowned icemaker from Gimli, Man.
c) A well-known Swiss fashion designer who
provides the Norwegian men with their crazy
outfits.
d) A Swiss watchmaker and official timekeeper
for all major curling events, including the
Olympics.
4. A curling crowd is best known for:
a) Grey hair.
b) Wearing funny hats.
c) Trading pins.
d) Drinking beer.
e) All of the above.
Answers
Eye Opener
1. Boy Meets Curl was the 12th episode in
the 21st season of The Simpsons. Marge and
Homer join forces with Agnes and Seymour
Skinner on a mixed team to compete in the
2010 Winter Olympics.
2. True. David Murdoch was a 10-year-old boy
on his way home when Pan Am Flight 103
dropped from the sky, approximately 300 yards
from the car in which he was sitting.
3. Hans Wuthrich came to Canada as a Swiss
exchange student in 1976. The Gimli, Man.,
resident has since become the pre-eminent
icemaker in curling. He was responsible for the
ice at both the Vancouver and Sochi Olympic
Games in 2010 and 2014, respectively.
4. Curling fans like to trade pins that they stick
on their funny hats that cover their grey hair
while drinking beer. In other words, all of the
above is the correct answer.
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THE TEAMS . . .
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Canada
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Glencoe Club
(Calgary)
Skip — Pat Simmons
Third — John Morris
Second — Carter Rycroft
Lead — Nolan Thiessen
Alt. — Tom Sallows
Coach — Earle Morris
China
Harbin Curling Club
(Harbin, Heilongjiang)
Skip — Jialiang Zang
Third — Dejia Zou
Second — Dexin Ba
Lead — Jinbo Wang
Alt. — Rongrui Zhang
Coach — Hongchen Li
Czech Rep.
Finland
Italy
Japan
CK Brno
(Brno)
Skip — Jirí Snitil
Third — Lukas Klíma
Second — Martin Snitil
Lead — Jindrich Kíiitzberger
Alt. — Samuel Mokris
Coach — Brian Gray
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Skip — Aku Kauste
Third — Kasper Hakunti
Second — Pauli Jäämies
Lead — Janne Pitko
Alt. — Leo Mäkelä
Coach — Tomi Rantamäki
ASD Trentino Curling Club
(Cembra)
Skip — Joel Retornaz (3rd stones)
Third — Amos Mosaner (skip stones)
Second — Daniele Ferrazza
Lead — Andrea Pilzer
Alt. — Sebastiano Arman
Coach — Gianandrea Gallinatto
Karuizawa Curling Club
(Karuizawa)
Skip — Yusuke Morozumi
Third — Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi
Second — Tetsuro Shimizu
Lead — Kosuke Morozumi
Alt. — Yuta Matsumura
Coach — Hatomi Nagaoka
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Snarøen Curling Club
(Oslo)
Skip — Thomas Ulsrud
Third — Torger Nergård
Second — Christoffer Svae
Lead — Hårvard Vad Petersson
Alt. — Markus Snovehoiberg
Coach — Pal Trulsen
Russia
Various clubs
Skip — Evgeny Arkhipov
Third — Alexander Kozyrev
Second — Artur Razhabov
Lead — Anton Kalalb
Alt. — Alexey Stukalskiy
Coach — Vasiliy Gudin
Scotland
Various clubs
Skip — Ewan MacDonald
Third — Duncan Fernie
Second — Ruairidh Greenwood
Lead — Euan Byers
Alt. — David Murdoch
Coach — David Reid
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Skip — Niklas Edin
Third — Oskar Eriksson
Second — Kristian Lindström
Lead — Christoffer Sundgren
Alt. — Henrik Leek
Coach — Fredrik Lindberg
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Switzerland
CC Bern
(Bern)
Skip — Marc Pfister
Third — Enrico Pfister
Second — Reto Keller
Lead — Raphael Märki
Alt. — Sven Michel
Coach — Pius Matter
U.S.A.
Duluth Curling Club
Madison Curling Club
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9
10
11
Scotland vs. Russia
China vs. Cze
Sui vs. Sweden
Cze vs. Sweden
Finland vs. Norway
China vs. USA
Sui vs. Finland
Japan vs. Canada
Italy vs. Russia
Japan vs. Italy
Scotland vs. USA
Canada vs. Norway
WED
9:30 a.m.
2:30 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
12
13
14
Italy vs. Norway
Russia vs. Finland
Canada vs. Scotland
Canada vs. Sui
Sweden vs. Japan
Norway vs. Cze
USA vs. Sweden
Scotland vs. Sui
Finland vs. China
China vs. Russia
Italy vs. Cze
USA vs. Japan
THURS
9:30 a.m.
2:30 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
15
16
17
Cze vs. USA
Sweden vs. China
Japan vs. Sui
Scotland vs. China
USA vs. Russia
Italy vs. Finland
Norway vs. Japan
Canada vs. Italy
Russia vs. Cze
Finland vs. Canada
Sui vs. Norway
Sweden vs. Scotland
POSSIBLE TIEBREAKERS:
ROCK SOLID COVERAGE
Official
Ford World Men`s
Curling pins are
available
at the
Souvenir Store!
A
Cze. vs. Sui
Japan vs. Scotland
Thank you to all the volunteers
1
2
WORLD
DRAW
One draw
Two draws
(If necessary)
DATE
April 3
April 3
April 3
TIME
9:30 a.m.
9:30 a.m.
2:30 p.m.
PLAYOFFS:
PAGE PLAYOFF
PAGE PLAYOFF
SEMIFINAL
BRONZE
GOLD
DATE
April 3
April 4
April 4
April 5
April 5
TIME
7:30 p.m.
2:30 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
10 a.m.
4 p.m.
PAGE PLAYOFF SYSTEM
1
1 vs. 2
2
3
4
Final
Semifinal
3 vs. 4
Page 16
It’s time to register
for Pond Hoppers
Are you a Pond Hopper? If you
have crossed an ocean (Atlantic
or Pacific) to attend a World
Curling Championship (men’s
or women’s), then you meet the
one and only requirement for
becoming a member of the Pond
Hopper Club. The next step is to
register, and once that is done
you are a Pond Hopper for life!
Pond Hopper registration takes
place today through Monday
(March 28-March 30) at the
Halifax Metro Centre. There are
no registration fees or dues.
Later, come celebrate the 44th
Annual Pond Hopper Awards
Dinner and Dance at the World
Trade & Convention Centre
(Summit Suite) on Thursday,
April 2. The party includes a sitdown dinner, awards program,
and the music of the Gordon
Tucker Band for your listening
and dancing pleasure.
Party tickets are available at
the Pond Hopper registration
desk through Monday, March 30.
You must be a member or a guest
of a member to attend.
Pond Hopper registration
schedule at Halifax Metro Centre:
Today, March 28 — 11 a.m., 2
p.m and 7 p.m
Sunday, March 29 — 9 a.m, 2
p.m. and 7 p.m.
Monday, March 30 — 9 a.m., 2
p.m. and 7 p.m.
Peggy’s Cove Village
Don’t hurry too hard.
While taking in the curling action, get outside between draws to
discover hidden gems, delicious food and historic sites along the
shores of the great Atlantic. All you have to do is take yourself there.
Proud partner of the 2015 Ford World Men’s Curling Championship.
Steele Ford is proud to be
the Official Vehicle Sponsor
for the 2015 Ford World Men’s
Curling Championship.
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Halifax, Nova Scotia
Phone: 902-982-3808
www.steeleford.com