Brad Gushue took gold in Edmonton in 2017 but fell to Sweden’s Niklas Edin in 2018 and again last spring at the Orleans Arena
Sin City wasn’t kind to Canadian skip Brad Gushue. He’s hoping a return to the nation’s capital will work more in his favour.
Gushue and teammates Mark Nichols, E.J. Harnden and Geoff Walker secured their berth earlier this month with a victory over Manitoba’s Matt Dunstone in the Brier final at London, Ont. Conditions should be better at the 9,500-seat TD Place with veteran icemaker Dave Merklinger serving as chief ice technician.
“I think when we let the crowd get into the game and play to the crowd a little bit – whether good shots, everything that happens – this team plays better,” Nichols said.The top-ranked Edin will be looking for a seventh career world title. Other competition headliners include Joel Retornaz of Italy, Scotland’s Bruce Mouat, Switzerland’s Yannick Schwaller and American John Shuster.
Canada’s Kerri Einarson took bronze at the recent world women’s curling championship in Sandviken, Sweden. Switzerland’s Silvana Tirinzoni repeated as champion.“That just creates a lot of uncertainty and a lack of confidence in being able to make shots at certain times,” Gushue said on a pre-event video call. “For certain teams and their style of play, it will benefit them more than others. Obviously I think it hurt Kerri over there in those ice conditions.
The Harnden brothers and Flaxey won Olympic gold at the 2014 Sochi Games with skip Brad Jacobs. That team won its lone Brier the year before and took silver at the 2013 world championship in Victoria.
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