Bottcher3-5 at 2021 Tim Hortons Curling Trials

SKIP
Brendan
Bottcher

Third
Darren
Moulding

Second
Bradley
Thiessen

Lead
Karrick
Martin

Brendan Bottcher (Edmonton, AB) finished 3-5 in the 9-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Bottcher lost 6-4 to Brad Gushue (St. John's, NL), droppimg another game, 6-5 to Tanner Horgan (Kingston, ON). Bottcher lost 5-2 to Brad Jacobs (Sault Ste. Marie, NO) where Bottcher responded with a 10-2 win over Mike McEwen (Winnipeg, MB). Bottcher went on to lose 9-7 against Kevin Koe (Calgary, AB). Bottcher lost 9-4 to Matt Dunstone (Regina, SK) where Bottcher responded with a 7-6 win over Jason Gunnlaugson (Winnipeg, MB). Bottcher won 10-6 against John Epping (Toronto, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

Bottcher earned 15.185 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. For week 18 of the event schedule, Bottcher did not improve upon their best events, dropping from 6th to 7th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 287.184 total points. Bottcher ranks 8th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 113.195 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	42	24	0	0.636	11-6	9-7	7-5	1-1	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	519	391	306	7.53	5.90	1.64	4.47	3.78	1.69	1.56	1.75

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	247	310	41	40	7-0	20-3	66-5	1.26	0.17	0.45	0.12

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	272	81	265	51	2-4	5-14	10-58	0.30	0.97	0.54	0.20

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