Shuster

Duluth, United States

SKIP
John
Shuster

Third
Jeff
Isaacson

Second
Jared
Zezel

Lead
John
Landsteiner

Games:	9
Record:	7W - 2L
PF/G:	8.59
PA/G:	5.76
Hammer Efficiency:	0.43
Steal Defense:	0.14
Force Efficiency:	0.56
Steal Efficiency:	0.31

John Shuster (Duluth, USA) needed a tiebreaker to advance to the playoffs, Shuster finished 5-2 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Shuster lost 9-7 to Jiri Snitil (Prague, CZE), then responded with a 7-6 win over Peter De Boer (Naseby, NZ). Shuster won 10-4 against Thomas Dufour (Chamonix, FRA). Shuster went on to lose 8-7 against Johnny Jahr (Fuessen, GER). Shuster responded with a 8-2 win over Yusuke Morozumi (Nagano, JPN). Shuster won 9-6 against Korea's Soo-Hyuk Kim, then won 10-4 against Finland's Aku Kauste in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Olympic Qualification Event, Shuster take home 8.750 world rankings points, moving up 2 spots the World Ranking Standings into 27th place overall with 78.925 total points. Shuster ranks 24th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 41.625 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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Japan's Satsuki Fujisawa (photo: Anil Mungal, GSOC) won 7-4 over Kayla Skrlik of Calgary, streamed live from the Nutrien Ag Solutions Western Showdown where every game is available through CurlingZone's Youtube channel.

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