CHAMPION: Edin Wins 2021 Nufloors Penticton Curling Classic

SKIP
Niklas
Edin

Third
Oskar
Eriksson

Second
Rasmus
Wrana

Lead
Christoffer
Sundgren

Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE) won 5-4 over Glenn Howard (Penetanguishene, ON) in the Final of the Nufloors Penticton Curling Classic, held October 14 - 18, 2021 at the Penticton Curling Club in Penticton, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Edin won 5-2 over Mike McEwen (Winnipeg, MB) in the semifinals of the 2021 Nufloors Penticton Curling Classic in Penticton, British Columbia, Canada; and won 4-1 over Tyler Tardi (Langley, BC) in the quarterfinals. of the 2021 Nufloors Penticton Curling Classic in Penticton, British Columbia, Canada;

Edin finished 5-0 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Edin defeated Jared St. John (Penticton, BC) 8-4, then won 7-0 against Wes Craig (Victoria, BC) and 7-2 against SooHyuk Kim (Gyeongbuk, KOR). Edin won 5-4 against Kevin Koe (Calgary, AB), then won 4-3 against Jeremy Harty (Calgary, AB) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Nufloors Penticton Curling Classic Championship title, Edin earned 61.875 world rankings points along with the $18,000CDN first prize cheque, moving up 7 spots the World Ranking Standings into 4th place overall with 251.838 total points. Edin ranks 2nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 99.421 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	66	22	0	0.750	27-6	13-2	8-3	1-0	1-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	697	547	376	7.85	5.39	2.45	4.65	3.86	1.69	1.40	1.49

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	357	436	61	60	11-0	32-0	88-10	1.22	0.17	0.44	0.14

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	340	111	315	44	2-4	5-9	16-66	0.33	0.93	0.64	0.23

2024: Brad Jacobs
Brad Jacobs, Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant, Ben Hebert , Paul Webster
Edmonton, AB
2023: Glenn Howard
Glenn Howard, Scott Howard, David Mathers, Tim March
Penetanguishene, ON
2021: Niklas Edin
Niklas Edin, Oskar Eriksson, Rasmus Wrana, Christoffer Sundgren
Karlstad, SWE
2019: Brendan Bottcher
Brendan Bottcher, Darren Moulding, Bradley Thiessen, Karrick Martin
Edmonton, AB
2018: Glen Muirhead
Glen Muirhead, Kyle Smith, Thomas Muirhead, Cameron Smith
Perth, SCO
2017: Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe, Marc Kennedy, Brent Laing, Ben Hebert
Calgary, AB

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