Shuster

Duluth, United States

SKIP
John
Shuster

Third
Tyler
George

Second
Matt
Hamilton

Lead
John
Landsteiner

Games:	12
Record:	6W - 6L
PF/G:	7.05
PA/G:	6.88
Hammer Efficiency:	0.38
Steal Defense:	0.23
Force Efficiency:	0.58
Steal Efficiency:	0.18

John Shuster (Duluth, USA) needed a tiebreaker to advance to the playoffs, Shuster finished 6-5 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Shuster lost 11-10 to Pat Simmons (Calgary, CAN), then responded with a 10-7 win over Thomas Ulsrud (Oslo, NOR). Shuster went on to lose 9-3 against Marc Pfister (Bern, SUI). Shuster lost 7-4 to Aku Kauste (Helsinki, FIN) where Shuster responded with a 8-2 win over Joel Retornaz (Cortina d'Ampezzo, ITA). Shuster went on to lose 6-4 against Ewan MacDonald (Perth, SCO). Shuster responded with a 9-5 win over Jia Liang Zang (Harbin, CHN). Shuster went on to lose 11-6 against Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE). Shuster responded with a 8-6 win over Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN). Shuster won 6-2 against Jiri Snitil (Prague, CZE), then won 6-5 against Evgeniy Arkhipov (Moscow, RUS) in their final qualifying round match.

Shuster earned 12.000 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, remaining in 21st place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 108.192 total points. Shuster ranks 19th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 63.486 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

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