CURLING CANADA • 2021 TIM HORTONS BRIER, PRESENTED BY AGI • MEDIA GUIDE 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS GENERAL INFORMATION Board of Governors & National Staff 3 Media Information 4 EVENT INFORMATION Fact Sheet 5 Tim Hortons Brier Draw 9 Seeding 10 Practice Schedule 10 TEAM & PLAYER INFORMATION Rosters 11 Player Fact Sheet 12 Team Biographies 18 Canada 18 Alberta 24 British Columbia 29 Manitoba 33 New Brunswick 36 Newfoundland & Labrador 38 Northern Ontario 40 Northwest Territories 46 Nova Scotia 48 Nunavut 50 Ontario 52 Prince Edward Island 57 Quebec 59 Saskatchewan 62 Yukon 66 Wild Card 1 68 Wild Card 2 72 Wild Card 3 77 HISTORICAL INFORMATION Tim Hortons Brier Records 81 Tim Hortons Brier All-time Win/Loss Records & Team Lineups 98 Awards 157 CURLING CANADA • 2021 TIM HORTONS BRIER, PRESENTED BY AGI • MEDIA GUIDE 2 BOARD OF GOVERNORS & NATIONAL STAFF CURLING CANADA 1660 Vimont Court Orléans, ON K4A 4J4 TEL: (613) 834-2076 FAX: (613) 834-0716 TOLL FREE: 1-800-550-2875 BOARD OF GOVERNORS Mitch Minken, Chair Chana Martineau, Governor Donna Krotz, Governor Kathy O’Rourke, Governor Amy Nixon, Governor Mike Szajewski, Governor Paul Addison, Governor Darren Oryniak, Governor Cathy Dalziel, Governor NATIONAL STAFF Katherine Henderson, Chief Executive Officer Marcy Hrechkosy, Event Manager Bill Merklinger, Executive Director, Corporate Services Kyle Jahns, Manager, Communication & Media Relations Karen Ryan, Executive Assistant Robyn Mattie, Manager, Curling Club Championship Stephanie Carbonette, Comptroller Helen Radford, Manager, Program Development Youth Feeder System Al Cameron, Director, Communication & Media Relations Casey Sweeney, Manager, Reporting and Strategic Projects Danny Lamoureux, Director, Club Development & Event Rachel Delaney, Coordinator, Development & Championship Operations Services Marylou Morris, Director, Client Services, National Marketing Louise Delorme, Coordinator, National Athlete Services & Coaching Gerry Peckham, Director, High Performance Melissa Hicks, Sales Account Coordinator, Local Sponsorships, Event Operations Justin Perry, Director, Information Services & Technology Maddie Kelly, Marketing and Office Coordinator Nolan Thiessen, Director, Broadcast, Marketing, Innovation Amanda MacKenzie, Marketing and Office Coordinator and Event Presentation and Athlete Liaison Brodie Bazinet, Foundation Manager Louise Sauvé, Administrative Assistant Andy Henry, Manager, Marketing & Tickets JoAnne Viau, Coordinator, Financial Services Neil Houston, Event Manager CURLING CANADA • 2021 TIM HORTONS BRIER, PRESENTED BY AGI • MEDIA GUIDE 3 MEDIA INFORMATION INTERVIEW REGULATIONS/PROCEDURES All 2021 Tim Hortons Brier, presented by AGI, media interviews will be virtual. Accredited media will receive a Zoom link that will be valid for the entirety of the event. Players will be brought to the mixed zone upon completion of their games and available for five-minute media scrums. It is the responsibility of the accredited media member to be on the Zoom call upon completion of the game as players will not be available after leaving the mixed zone unless pre-arranged in advance. All media scrums will be uploaded to Curling Canada’s YouTube page as soon as possible after each draw. During the round-robin, Championship Pool and playoffs, Curling Canada will bring at least one member of the winning team from each game into the mixed zone. Media with specific requests should email them to [email protected]. Please include the Draw #, team and player name in the subject line of your e-mail. DRAW STATISTICS Live scores and stats are updated in real-time and can be viewed online at the Curling Canada scoreboard page. If you would like to receive the Draw Stats media report by email, please contact Al Cameron ([email protected] or 403-463-5500) TV NON-RIGHTS HOLDERS TSN is sole TV rights-holder for this event. However, in order to provide other stations and/or networks with an opportunity to get brief game/highlight footage, broadcast media may air two minutes of game footage daily, and must provide credit to TSN. TV non-rights holders may use as much post-game media scrum footage as they wish. No live hits, stand-ups or recording of non-broadcast games will be allowed to occur inside Markin MacPhail Centre. PHOTOGRAPHY GUIDELINES Curling Canada will have a photographer at this event. Media outlets in need of photos should e-mail [email protected]. CURLING CANADA • 2021 TIM HORTONS BRIER, PRESENTED BY AGI • MEDIA GUIDE 4 FACT SHEET OFFICIAL NAME: 2021 Tim Hortons Brier, presented by AGI DATE/SITE: March 5-14, 2021 - WinSport Arena at Canada Olympic Park SEATING CAPACITY: 2,500 (not applicable) FORMAT: Eighteen teams (14-member provinces and territories, Team Canada and three Wild Card teams) will compete in two pools of nine. Teams will play eight games in their respective pools. At the conclusion of the eight games, the top four teams in each pool advance to the Championship Pool where each team plays another 4 games; one against each of the top four teams from the other pool for a total of 12 games. Records from the first round are carried over to the Championship Pool. If necessary, tiebreaker games prior to the Championship Pool will be played Friday morning for the final place available in the Championship Pool by teams with a better than .500 record (5-3 or better). Teams tied for fourth place at 4-4 or worse will be determined by head-to-head ranking first, then accumulated last stone draw ranking. Should tiebreakers be needed prior to Friday morning, games will be played on Thursday evening, with the possibility of shorter games being played. Following the Championship Pool games, the team with the best record will advance directly to the final. The second- and third-placed teams will play in the semifinal. Tiebreakers for 3rd place will be played Sunday morning (if necessary). Due to the inclusion of two additional teams, the format could not accommodate the Page playoff this season. On Sunday afternoon the second and third ranked teams will play with the winner advancing to the final on Sunday evening. INTERNET: Draw results and event information can be obtained at: https://www.curling.ca/2021brier/ TELEVISION: TSN, RDS2 (All draws), ESPN3 WINNERS EARN: • Berth into the 2021 Tim Hortons Curling Trials. (Note: If team has already qualified [Epping/Gushue/ Jacobs/Bottcher/Koe] then the berth will be made available at Trial Qualifying Event in early fall; dates, location to be announced; • Represent Canada at 2021 OK Tire & BKT Tires World Men’s Curling Championship, presented by New Holland, from April 2-11. Total purse: $300,000 Championship Pool (4th-8th): $15,000 1st: $100,000 Non-Championship Pool (9th-18th): $2,500 2nd: $60,000 3rd: $40,000 CURLING CANADA • 2021 TIM HORTONS BRIER, PRESENTED BY AGI • MEDIA GUIDE 5 GAME DURATION: Teams must play a minimum of eight ends during a round-robin game before conceding. Where necessary, tiebreakers are a minimum of eight ends played. Playoff games are a minimum of 10 ends. LAST STONE DRAW Last stone advantage will be determined by the Last Stone Draws before each Round Robin, (LSD): and each Championship Pool game. Both teams will name the players delivering the Last Stone Draws before the first team practice. At the conclusion of each team’s pre-game practice, two stones will be delivered to the tee at the home end, by different players – the first stone with a clockwise rotation and the second with a counter-clockwise rotation. There will be announcements to deliver the Last Stone Draw’s (LSD’s). A stone delivered prior to the announcement or NOT delivered within the one minute allotted, will be assigned a distance of 199.60 cm (the stone must reach the near tee-line before the time expires). The first stone will be measured and removed from play before the second stone is announced to be delivered. The distances recorded for each stone will be added together to give the team its LSD total for that game. The team with the lesser LSD total will have the choice of delivering the first or second stone in the first end of that game. If the LSD totals for both teams are the same, the individual LSD stones are compared, and the best non-equal LSD has the choice of delivering first or second stone in the first end. When both teams have the exact same individual LSD stone distances, a coin toss will be used to determine that choice. Stones moved by the delivery team before being measured will be assigned the distance of the next defined circle away from the button. If a member of the non-delivering team or an external force moves a stationary stone or causes it to be moved before the Umpire completes the measurement, the stone is replaced to its original position by the delivering team. Triangulation: any stone covering the tee (or centre pin) will be measured from two separate points 61.00 cm from the tee. These distances will calculate the exact distance from the tee to the centre of the curling stone. At the conclusion of the pool play round robin, two single highest recorded Last Stone Draw distances will be discarded by each team to establish the final accumulated distance. Each player must deliver ONE stone of EACH rotation during the Last Stone Draw process in the pool play round robin. Any player can deliver in the Championship Pool (but not the same player for both stones). GAME TIMING: Thinking time will be used for this event. Each team receives 38 minutes to complete a ten-end game. Extra ends will be four minutes and 30 second (4:30) of thinking time for each team. A team’s clock begins: • Once the opposing team has completed their shot, all rocks have come to rest and moved behind the back line; AND • the opposing team’s sweepers have moved to the side of the sheet; AND • the opposition in charge of the house has relinquished control of the house; AND • the person in charge of the house (the delivering team) has taken control of the house.