Koe will have home-ice advantage for the first time in four appearances at this event.
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — Much has changed since Ben Hebert made his world men’s curling championship debut over a decade ago.
Hebert and his Calgary-based team of skip Kevin Koe, third B.J. Neufeld and second Colton Flasch will try to get Canada back on track at the 2019 world championship starting Saturday at the Enmax Centre. "That was a different event and a different team," Koe said on a pre-event conference call. "For us, we’re not going to approach it any different. We’ve put in the work for this worlds similar to how we prepared for the Brier.
"I think for us we’ll just embrace that and enjoy it," Koe said. "We’ll have pretty much a full arena cheering for us the whole week. That’ll definitely help us on and I don’t think it’ll put too much added pressure on us.This will be the first worlds appearance for Neufeld and Flasch, who replaced Marc Kennedy and Brent Laing at the start of this season.
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