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Maybe Joanne ends up on Team Scrap Pile with Andrea Crawford and Cathy O.???

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Nice for her. Maybe she could hook up with that Andrea from Germany - she's always looking for good young curlers!!!

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agree. if TSN could find a way to broadcast nothing but hockey they would

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Gotta give credit to Val for velding that shot onto Stef's shot stone. That's a mean girl shot!!!

Personally I though Stef shoulda drawn to her own shot stone - force Val to make an incredible shot to avoid 3....

Not in Stef's DNA apparently! Stef appeared quite shaken after the match!

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Sask will be kicking themselves when they look at the tape again. The rock that ended up killing them was their own guard that was 10 inches off the front of the house. When Stef went to throw her first one she was lying one behind that guard with another corner guard at her disposal. By drawing behind that she gave Sweeting the chance to freeze her out which she did. What she should have did was split the yellow guard that was covering her own. If she makes the split then Sweeting would have to make a double to avoid losing. Alot of good things could have happened trying the split. Where was Rick when they needed him !

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Sask will be kicking themselves when they look at the tape again. The rock that ended up killing them was their own guard that was 10 inches off the front of the house. When Stef went to throw her first one she was lying one behind that guard with another corner guard at her disposal. By drawing behind that she gave Sweeting the chance to freeze her out which she did. What she should have did was split the yellow guard that was covering her own. If she makes the split then Sweeting would have to make a double to avoid losing. Alot of good things could have happened trying the split. Where was Rick when they needed him !

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saskatchewan was thinking of 3 by going around the corner. if you play the split and miss you lose. if you play the split and she makes a double, which would in all likelihood be fairly simple you go an extra. if you draw behind center and she makes the run double you go an extra.

even with the call stef made she had a fairly makeable draw for 2 and she came up light

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The two matches yesterday were some of the best quality sporting activity I have seen in a while. Congrats to all three teams. Too bad this week that TSN morning "highlights" have been every hockey fight in gory detail followed by six nanoseconds of curling.

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A most excellent suggestion. Reason it wasn't suggested is if you somehow miss the split and your own rock rolls into the house unabated - Val has a choice of doubles to END THE GAME!

Like I said before the play was to draw behind that short guard and lay 2 buried. Val then would have had a much more difficult freeze. If she crashes or scrapes off any of them the game is essentially over. If she angle-freezes to either then Stef has a short raise run split (a tough shot, yes but prolly to win)

Val was very fortunate to get her rock into 2nd shot position - a foot shorter and she's playing Rachel in the early show today.

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no matter what shot she made she was going to have a shot for 2 no matter what. the one she played was the only one that would lead to 3 if val missed her last

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No disrespect to Ms Jones - perhaps the greatest curler Canada has ever produced - but I would like to see Val Sweeting win tonight so we get a new representative at the World's.

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No disrespect to Ms Jones - perhaps the greatest curler Canada has ever produced - but I would like to see Val Sweeting win tonight so we get a new representative at the World's.

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Quite agree about the excellence. As for TSN - their commitment via contract is to show the games in whats usually dead air space (mornings and mid-afternoons).

We got lucky this week cuz TSN has a couple extra channels and of course, Sportsnet relieved TSN of most of their NHL broadcast duties. Thus, no derailments of any evening draws.

Curling hi-lites are kinda verboten in the regular TSN hi-lites cycle.

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The only good thing about the Mickey Mouse game on at 3pm (EST) is that it has two great competitors who will do all they can to win.

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No disrespect to Ms Jones - perhaps the greatest curler Canada has ever produced - but I would like to see Val Sweeting win tonight so we get a new representative at the World's.

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According to TSN, sounds as if Michelle Englot and Steph Schmidt will be playing together in Regina next year.

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They have 5 different feeds yet still ran the same draw on 3 of the 5 feeds for every draw. They can easily have curling on 1 or 2 feeds and enough room left for anything else. I cant figure out why they have 5 feeds, 90% of the time all feeds are the exact same show. As for morning highlights they can make more room for curling between the nhl, nba and break down of why the leafs suck and who will be traded. No other sports are on right now, tsn has more soccer highlights than they do curling.

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We are rural watching livestream, tsn.

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We live in a TV universe where we get to see what the CRTC and cable companies want us to see rather than what we want to see.

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feel really bad for stef and the team. a 4th place finish looks likely again.

i hate that they reintroduced this game. stef and her team should have the bronze medal already

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If you can post to this site then why can't you watch the TSN webcast? I was doing both during Daytona.

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im trying think...its not very often that the loser of the semi final wins the bronze game

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If you can post to this site then why can't you watch the TSN webcast? I was doing both during Daytona.

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You must feel for Stephanie Lawton coming in 4th place once more.

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One of the best skips to never win a Scotties.....yet.

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