NEWS FROM THE 2019 HOME HARDWARE CANADA CUP • Friday, November 29, 2019 Cheryl Bernard has jumped from the TSN broadcast booth to the ice for this week’s Home Hardware Canada Cup, and the former Canadian champion is showing she TV still has game. Page 2 TIMEOUT MORNING CUP • NOVEMBER 29 • 2019 | PAGE 2 Super sub JOHN KOROBANIK on the job She’s so cool and calm. laying without your skip is rarely a positive but the Casey She’s been Scheidegger foursome has there, done Pbeen without their leader all season, BERNARD PART OF “ a situation that has put them in the unique situation of competing at the that with elite level without any pressure or most events. expectations. UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY Scheidegger is away from the — Cary-Anne McTaggart team until sometime in the new year -- having given birth to a son on Monday – so the remaining members have played with three different skips this season. This week it’s 2010 Olympic silver medallist Cheryl Bernard taking the reins for a second straight week in the Home Hardware Canada Cup in Leduc, Alta.. “We decided at the beginning of the season, we don’t have much for expectations, knowing there were going to be lineup changes,” third Cary-Anne McTaggart, said prior to Wednesday’s opening draw. “So we’re just, you know, playing one rock at a time and see where it takes us, just having a lot of fun and CHERYL enjoying each other along the way.” BERNARD Bernard, who lost the Olympic gold-medal game in an extra end, came out of retirement to skip the Lethbridge, Alta., team, which includes second Jessie Haughian, Scheidegger’s younger sister, and lead Kristie Moore, to the final in last weekend’s Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic in Calgary. The 53-year-old who retired in 2014, sees this week as a unique opportunity for the team. CONTINUED OPPOSITE PAGE GET YOUR SWEEPSTAKE TICKETS TODAY! Enter today to support youth curling programs across Canada and for a chance to win the ultimate fan experience at the 2020 Scotties Tournament of Hearts! 5 FOR 10 FOR 20 FOR Ticket and contest details @ $25 $50 $100 for the love ofcurling.ca MORNING CUP • NOVEMBER 29 • 2019 | PAGE 3 “What I think is a really neat opportunity either team… so maybe that’s good.” for this team is to go out and play without What’s good for Team Scheidegger is any pressure or expectation,” she said. “This Bernard’s cool presence on the ice. isn’t an event that people are looking at them “She’s so cool and calm,” explained because they don’t have their skip here. And McTaggart. “She’s been there, done that I don’t have any pressure or expectations on with most events. She’s played in the biggest me because I’m just coming in to help them event, the Olympics, so it’s great to learn out. I think that’s an interesting position to from her and have her there to bounce be in, to go into a big event and not have any things off of and she just reacts positively to S ELF STORAGE pressure on you, or any expectations.” everything. Being such a veteran, she gets The foursome had an impressive start to something out of every shot.” Locations Near You the Home Hardware Canada Cup, winning And in case anyone was wondering, both their games opening day but dropped to McTaggart said Bernard is as good today as 2-2 with losses Wednesday to Chelsea Carey when she was playing. and Rachel Homan. “Oh, of course she is. She has so much in For Bernard, who moves from the her toolbox that she can pull out and use.” Clean, heated and secure units television booth to the ice, doesn’t see any And after just one event with the team, FIRST physical issues with her return. It’s the Bernard was surprised to see just how good Video surveillance WEEKS mental side she’s watching. With 10-end her new teammates are. They don’t need a lot games and the five-rock rule (which wasn’t Moving and packing supplies * of help from her. FREon any sizEe in effect when she played) she figures it’s “They’re really good,” she said. “I think *based on availability her mind that’s going to be tested to the there’s going to be little things along the way, Gated key code access limit. maybe nuances in the ice or what will happen “The body I don’t worry too much with. closer to a final game. But they’re done a lot 24 hour access You could skip this game until you’re 60, of that and they get it right away. easily, with no sweeping, you stay in shape, “They play so much these days that there’s 195+ stores across Canada it’s just the mental, focusing for 10 ends. That not that much you’re going to show them takes practice, over and over, for years and anymore, so it’s really maybe just some when you’re gone away from this for years, confidence, some strategy and some belief in do you lose focus during the game. That themselves. They’re a team that just hasn’t will be the tricky thing. I will have to really won the big one, but they’re so close. And double down, getting close to the end of the when they do, that’s kind of the breakthrough game, not to lose focus.” moment.” Oddly, enough, she says working in the The team had a bit of a breakthrough in television booth could be helpful with that 2018 when they won the Alberta women’s part of the game. title and have played in the Scotties “When I think of me focusing for 2 ½ Tournament of Hearts the last two years. So hours, three games a day, in the booth and they are a strong team that McTaggart thinks you can’t miss something. I’ve really been will be even better for having to deal with this focusing like that for 10 end games for five year’s rotating skips. years and I never really thought about it. “We’re learning a lot as a team, learning Probably I focus harder up there then I did a lot about each other, dealing with adversity down here. You can’t take any breaks on so I think in the end it’s making us a stronger Find Your Space Today! 855-218-2271 sentinel.ca Proudly Canadian MORNING CUP • NOVEMBER 29 • 2019 | PAGE 4 ‘It’s just not happening’ Dunstone crashes and burns amid high expectations Matt Dunstone and his Regina the 2013 Canadian champion and world foursome came into the 2019 Home junior champion bronze medallist. Hardware Canada Cup considered one “One shot. I’m just not making the big of the teams to watch, a young, talented shot in the moment when it’s needed. It’s group capable of doing impressive things as simple as that.” against the power-packed field. The team had a strong start to the Such has not been the case. 2019-20 season, finishing runner-up at Dunstone, third Braeden Moskowsky, the Stu Sells Oakville Tankard to Epping second Catlin Schneider and lead Dustin and then picking up its first career Grand Kidby find themselves winless in four Slam victory by beating Gushue in the games after losing Wednesday 9-7 to final of the Masters. Brad Jacobs of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., and So they came into Leduc feeling 5-4 to Brendan Bottcher of Edmonton. confident. “It’s not fun right now man, not good,” “We feel like we’re right here, like we a dejected Dunstone said after Bottcher belong,” said Dunstone who stole one in scored two in the10th end to escape with the ninth against Bottcher to hold a 5-4 the win. lead. “But … no real moral victories. It was typical of Dunstone’s results We’re here, we want to win and it’s just this week. They’ve been done in either not happening.” by big ends – giving up four in the sixth The loss to Bottcher eliminated to lose 8-4 to John Epping of Toronto and Dunstone from the weekend playoffs. At three in the third of a 7-5 loss to Jacobs 0-4 with two games remaining and with – of last-end miscues. Brad Gushue of St. four teams having one loss of less, the John’s, NL scored a deuce in the 10th to Regina crew can only hope to gain some take 9-7 win on Tuesday confidence in their final two games Friday “Just not making enough of the right – against Kevin Koe of Calgary and Glenn ones, it’s very frustrating,” said Dunstone, Howard of Penetanguishene, Ont. It’s been a tough week for Regina’s Matt Dunstone. MORNING CUP • NOVEMBER 29 • 2019 | PAGE 5 OFFICIAL PARTNER OF THE DAY – FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2019 The power of financial advice IG Wealth Management believes in the power of financial advice to change lives for the better. 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