2018 Canada Cup

2018 Home Hardware Canada Cup
Host cityEstevan, Saskatchewan
ArenaAffinity Place
DatesDecember 5–9
Men's winner Team Jacobs
Curling clubCommunity First CC, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
SkipBrad Jacobs
ThirdMarc Kennedy
SecondE. J. Harnden
LeadRyan Harnden
CoachAdam Kingsbury
Finalist Kevin Koe
Women's winner Team Jones
Curling clubSt. Vital CC, Winnipeg, Manitoba
SkipJennifer Jones
ThirdKaitlyn Lawes
SecondJocelyn Peterman
LeadDawn McEwen
Finalist Kerri Einarson
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The 2018 Home Hardware Canada Cup was held December 5–9 at Affinity Place in Estevan, Saskatchewan.[1] The tournament winners qualified for the 2021 Canadian Olympic Curling Pre-Trials.

Both the men's and women's events have a total purse of $70,000 with the winners receiving $14,000 and the runners up winning $9,000.[2]

Men

Teams

A revised version of the World Curling Tour's Order of Merit ranking system, allowing the many new teams for the 2018–19 curling season to carry over points individual players earned on their former teams, as of May 1, 2018, was used to qualify the first six men's teams. Team Dunstone qualified as the top-ranking non-qualified team on the Canadian Team Ranking System as of November 11, 2018.[3][4]

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Brendan Bottcher Darren Moulding Brad Thiessen Karrick Martin Saville Community Sports Centre, Edmonton, Alberta
Mike McEwen[5] Reid Carruthers Derek Samagalski Colin Hodgson West St. Paul Curling Club, West St. Paul, Manitoba
Matt Dunstone Braeden Moskowy Catlin Schneider Dustin Kidby Highland Curling Club, Regina, Saskatchewan
John Epping Mat Camm Brent Laing Craig Savill Leaside Curling Club, East York, Toronto, Ontario
Brad Gushue Mark Nichols Brett Gallant Geoff Walker Bally Haly Golf & Curling Club & RE/MAX Centre, St. John's
Brad Jacobs Marc Kennedy[6] E. J. Harnden Ryan Harnden Community First Curling Centre, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
Kevin Koe B. J. Neufeld Colton Flasch Ben Hebert The Glencoe Club, Calgary, Alberta

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Round-robin standings

Final round-robin standings

Key
Teams to Playoffs
Teams to Tiebreaker
Skip W L PF PA EW EL BE SE S%
Brad Jacobs 5 1 42 30 27 22 3 9 87%
Brad Gushue 4 2 45 33 26 23 2 7 86%
Kevin Koe 4 2 42 37 21 20 5 3 86%
Brendan Bottcher 4 2 41 42 23 19 4 6 82%
John Epping 3 3 34 35 23 23 5 4 83%
Matt Dunstone 1 5 32 41 17 24 4 2 83%
Reid Carruthers 0 6 21 39 15 20 6 4 81%

Round-robin results

Draw 1

Wednesday, December 5, 9:00 am

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
John Epping 2 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 1 7
Brendan Bottcher 0 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 5
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
Brad Jacobs 0 2 0 0 2 0 2 0 3 X 9
Kevin Koe 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 X 5
Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
Brad Gushue 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 1 7
Matt Dunstone 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 4

Draw 2

Wednesday, December 5, 2:00 pm

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
Brad Jacobs 1 0 1 0 2 0 3 0 1 X 8
Brad Gushue 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 X 4
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
John Epping 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 2 X 6
Reid Carruthers 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 X 3

Draw 3

Wednesday, December 5, 7:00 pm

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
Reid Carruthers 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 1 X X 5
Brendan Bottcher 1 0 0 2 0 4 2 0 X X 9
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
Kevin Koe 0 0 2 0 3 0 2 1 0 1 9
Matt Dunstone 2 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 6

Draw 4

Thursday, December 6, 9:00 am

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
Brad Gushue 1 0 0 5 1 0 X X X X 7
John Epping 0 0 1 0 0 1 X X X X 2
Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
Reid Carruthers 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 4
Brad Jacobs 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 5

Draw 5

Thursday, December 6, 2:00 pm

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
Matt Dunstone 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 X 4
Brad Jacobs 0 1 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 X 7
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
Brendan Bottcher 2 0 2 0 2 0 0 2 0 1 9
Brad Gushue 0 1 0 2 0 2 1 0 2 0 8
Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
Kevin Koe 3 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 1 8
John Epping 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 6

Draw 6

Thursday, December 6, 7:00 pm

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
Reid Carruthers 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2
Kevin Koe 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 4
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
Matt Dunstone 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 2 0 6
Brendan Bottcher 0 0 2 0 2 1 0 2 0 1 8

Draw 7

Friday, December 7, 9:00 am

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
Brendan Bottcher 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 X X 3
Kevin Koe 2 0 4 0 4 0 0 0 X X 10
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
Matt Dunstone 2 0 2 0 2 0 0 1 X X 7
Reid Carruthers 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 X X 3

Draw 8

Friday, December 7, 2:00 pm

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
Brad Gushue 0 2 1 0 3 0 0 0 2 X 8
Reid Carruthers 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 X 4
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
John Epping 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 6
Brad Jacobs 0 1 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 7

Draw 9

Friday, December 7, 7:00 pm

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
John Epping 0 0 2 0 2 0 1 0 2 X 7
Matt Dunstone 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 X 5
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
Kevin Koe 1 0 2 0 2 0 0 1 0 X 6
Brad Gushue 0 4 0 2 0 2 1 0 2 X 11
Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
Brad Jacobs 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 1 1 0 6
Brendan Bottcher 0 1 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 2 7

Tiebreaker

Saturday, December 8, 9:00 am

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
Kevin Koe 0 0 1 0 3 0 2 0 0 2 8
Brendan Bottcher 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 3 0 0 7
Player percentages
Team Koe Team Bottcher
Ben Hebert 93% Karrick Martin 95%
Colton Flasch 100% Brad Thiessen 91%
B.J. Neufeld 86% Darren Moulding 90%
Kevin Koe 76% Brendan Bottcher 88%
Total 89% Total 91%

Playoffs

Semifinal Final
1 Brad Jacobs 5
2 Brad Gushue 5 3 Kevin Koe 4
3 Kevin Koe 7

Semifinal

Saturday, December 8, 2:00 pm

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
Brad Gushue 0 2 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 5
Kevin Koe 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 2 1 1 7
Player percentages
Team Gushue Team Koe
Geoff Walker 86% Ben Hebert 98%
Brett Gallant 83% Colton Flasch 91%
Mark Nichols 84% B.J. Neufeld 93%
Brad Gushue 81% Kevin Koe 78%
Total 83% Total 90%

Final

Sunday, December 9, 7:00 pm

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
Brad Jacobs 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 5
Kevin Koe 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 4
Player percentages
Team Jacobs Team Koe
Ryan Harnden 94% Ben Hebert 94%
E. J. Harnden 91% Colton Flasch 86%
Marc Kennedy 95% B. J. Neufeld 84%
Brad Jacobs 80% Kevin Koe 78%
Total 90% Total 85%

Player percentages

After Round Robin Play; Includes games played at other positions

Leads % Seconds % Thirds/Skips % Fourths/Skips %
Karrick Martin 88% Brad Thiessen 82% Darren Moulding 82% Brendan Bottcher 82%
Colin Hodgson 90% Derek Samagalski 81% Reid Carruthers 78% Mike McEwen 77%
Dustin Kidby 91% Catlin Schneider 80% Braeden Moskowy 80% Matt Dunstone 79%
Craig Savill 85% Brent Laing 84% Mathew Camm 81% John Epping 83%
Geoff Walker 90% Brett Gallant 82% Mark Nichols 87% Brad Gushue 84%
Ryan Harnden 88% E. J. Harnden 90% Marc Kennedy 85% Brad Jacobs 85%
Ben Hebert 90% Colton Flasch 88% B. J. Neufeld 88% Kevin Koe 82%

Women

Teams

A revised version of the World Curling Tour's Order of Merit ranking system, allowing the many new teams for the 2018–19 curling season to carry over points individual players earned on their former teams, as of May 1, 2018, was used to qualify the first six teams. However, due to a virtual tie, a seventh women's teams was invited using this method. Team Flaxey qualified as the top-ranking non-qualified team on the Canadian Team Ranking System as of November 11, 2018.[3][4] Team Tracy Fleury had qualified for the event, but had to decline as they were representing Canada at the Second Leg of the 2018–19 Curling World Cup.

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Chelsea Carey Sarah Wilkes Dana Ferguson Rachelle Brown The Glencoe Club, Calgary, Alberta
Kerri Einarson Val Sweeting Shannon Birchard Briane Meilleur Gimli Curling Club, Gimli, Manitoba
Allison Flaxey Kate Cameron Taylor McDonald Raunora Westcott Granite Curling Club, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Rachel Homan Emma Miskew Joanne Courtney Lisa Weagle Ottawa Curling Club, Ottawa, Ontario
Jennifer Jones Kaitlyn Lawes Jocelyn Peterman Dawn McEwen St. Vital Curling Club, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Darcy Robertson Karen Klein Vanessa Foster Theresa Cannon Assiniboine Memorial Curling Club, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Casey Scheidegger Cary-Anne McTaggart Jessie Scheidegger Kristie Moore Lethbridge Curling Club, Lethbridge, Alberta
Laura Walker Cathy Overton-Clapham Lori Olson-Johns Laine Peters Saville Community Sports Centre, Edmonton, Alberta

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Round-robin standings

Final round-robin standings

Key
Teams to Playoffs
Teams to Tiebreaker
Skip W L PF PA EW EL BE SE S%
Kerri Einarson 6 1 49 35 32 28 4 9 82%
Jennifer Jones 5 2 49 40 28 30 2 4 79%
Rachel Homan 5 2 45 36 32 27 4 11 82%
Casey Scheidegger 4 3 50 41 33 27 4 7 79%
Laura Walker 3 4 40 46 30 30 5 6 79%
Chelsea Carey 2 5 38 54 26 33 2 6 77%
Allison Flaxey 2 5 36 49 25 29 6 7 79%
Darcy Robertson 1 6 49 55 31 33 2 6 77%

Round-robin results

Draw 1

Wednesday, December 5, 9:00 am

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
Chelsea Carey 0 2 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 X 6
Darcy Robertson 2 0 3 1 0 2 0 1 2 X 11
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
Laura Walker 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 5
Allison Flaxey 0 0 2 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 6

Draw 2

Wednesday, December 5, 2:00 pm

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
Casey Scheidegger 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 3 X 6
Laura Walker 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 X 3
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Final
Kerri Einarson 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 5
Rachel Homan 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 6
Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Final
Jennifer Jones 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 0 0 2 7
Chelsea Carey 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 5

Draw 3

Wednesday, December 5, 7:00 pm

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
Jennifer Jones 3 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 3 X 9
Darcy Robertson 0 0 2 0 0 3 0 2 0 X 7
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
Rachel Homan 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 5
Casey Scheidegger 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 2 1 7
Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
Kerri Einarson 2 0 0 0 2 2 0 1 0 X 7
Allison Flaxey 0 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 X 6

Draw 4

Thursday, December 6, 9:00 am

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
Rachel Homan 0 0 3 0 2 2 0 1 X X 8
Laura Walker 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 X X 3
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
Kerri Einarson 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 6
Jennifer Jones 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 3
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
Casey Scheidegger 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 6
Chelsea Carey 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 0 2 0 7

Draw 5

Thursday, December 6, 2:00 pm

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
Allison Flaxey 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 1 0 X 5
Chelsea Carey 0 1 0 0 2 2 0 0 2 X 7
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
Darcy Robertson 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 1 0 5
Laura Walker 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 4 8

Draw 6

Thursday, December 6, 7:00 pm

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
Darcy Robertson 0 2 0 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 7
Kerri Einarson 1 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 3 8
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
Rachel Homan 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 X X 5
Jennifer Jones 0 2 3 0 3 0 1 0 X X 9
Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
Allison Flaxey 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 X X 2
Casey Scheidegger 3 2 0 0 4 0 0 3 X X 12

Draw 7

Friday, December 7, 9:00 am

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
Kerri Einarson 2 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 3 X 8
Casey Scheidegger 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 X 5
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
Jennifer Jones 0 2 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 X 7
Allison Flaxey 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 X 4
Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
Darcy Robertson 0 2 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 6
Rachel Homan 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 3 0 1 7

Draw 8

Friday, December 7, 2:00 pm

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
Chelsea Carey 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 X X X 2
Rachel Homan 0 0 2 1 1 0 5 X X X 9
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
Jennifer Jones 1 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 4 X 9
Casey Scheidegger 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 2 0 X 6
Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
Laura Walker 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 5
Kerri Einarson 0 1 0 0 1 0 4 0 1 1 8

Draw 9

Friday, December 7, 7:00 pm

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Final
Laura Walker 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 4 0 1 9
Chelsea Carey 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 3 0 8
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
Allison Flaxey 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 3 0 2 9
Darcy Robertson 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 6

Draw 10

Saturday, December 8, 9:00 am

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
Laura Walker 0 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 1 1 7
Jennifer Jones 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 5
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
Casey Scheidegger 1 0 2 0 1 0 2 1 0 1 8
Darcy Robertson 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 0 2 0 7
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
Allison Flaxey 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 4
Rachel Homan 0 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 1 5
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
Chelsea Carey 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 X 3
Kerri Einarson 0 3 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 X 7

Playoffs

Semifinal Final
1 Kerri Einarson 5
2 Jennifer Jones 8 2 Jennifer Jones 8
3 Rachel Homan 4

Semifinal

Saturday, December 8, 8:00 pm

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
Jennifer Jones 1 0 0 3 1 0 2 0 1 X 8
Rachel Homan 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 X 4
Player percentages
Team Jones Team Homan
Dawn McEwen 88% Lisa Weagle 81%
Jocelyn Peterman 88% Joanne Courtney 83%
Kaitlyn Lawes 88% Emma Miskew 79%
Jennifer Jones 88% Rachel Homan 68%
Total 88% Total 78%

Final

Sunday, December 9, 2:00 pm

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
Kerri Einarson 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 0 X 5
Jennifer Jones 0 2 0 0 2 1 0 0 3 X 8
Player percentages
Team Einarson Team Jones
Briane Meilleur 91% Dawn McEwen 81%
Shannon Birchard 95% Jocelyn Peterman 84%
Val Sweeting 78% Kaitlyn Lawes 81%
Kerri Einarson 70% Jennifer Jones 86%
Total 84% Total 83%

Player percentages

After Round Robin

Leads % Seconds % Thirds % Skips %
Rachelle Brown 81% Dana Ferguson 78% Sarah Wilkes 75% Chelsea Carey 73%
Briane Meilleur 88% Shannon Birchard 81% Val Sweeting 83% Kerri Einarson 75%
Raunora Westcott 85% Taylor McDonald 80% Kate Cameron 78% Allison Flaxey 72%
Lisa Weagle 84% Joanne Courtney 82% Emma Miskew 82% Rachel Homan 77%
Dawn McEwen 83% Jocelyn Peterman 82% Kaitlyn Lawes 81% Jennifer Jones 75%
Theresa Cannon 78% Vanessa Foster 78% Karen Klein 74% Darcy Robertson 78%
Kristie Moore 83% Jessie Haughian 80% Cary-Anne McTaggart 76% Casey Scheidegger 76%
Laine Peters 85% Lori Olson-Johns 80% Cathy Overton-Clapham 76% Laura Walker 73%

References

  1. ^ "2018 Home Hardware Canada Cup". www.curling.ca. Archived from the original on March 2, 2019. Retrieved July 4, 2018.
  2. ^ 2018 Home Hardware Canada Cup Media Guide: Fact Sheet, pg 7
  3. ^ a b "2018 Home Hardware Canada Cup field nearly complete". www.curling.ca. Retrieved July 5, 2018.
  4. ^ a b Cameron, Al (November 13, 2018). "FIELD NOW COMPLETE FOR 2018 HOME HARDWARE CANADA CUP". Curling Canada. Retrieved November 13, 2018.
  5. ^ "McEwen taking over as skip as Carruthers team heads into curling's Canada Cup".
  6. ^ "Kennedy to join Team Jacobs for Canada Cup". TSN. November 26, 2018. Retrieved November 26, 2018.
  7. ^ a b "Teams". www.curling.ca. Retrieved July 5, 2018.