Koe Runner-Up at 2022 Tim Hortons Brier

SKIP
Kevin
Koe

Third
B.J.
Neufeld

Second
John
Morris

Lead
Ben
Hebert

Kevin Koe (Calgary, AB) lost 9-8 to Brad Gushue (St. John's, NL) in the Final of the Tim Hortons Brier, held March 4 - 13, 2022 in Lethbridge, Alberta.

Koe finished 7-1 in the 18-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Koe defeated Colton Flasch (Saskatoon, SK) 9-8, then won 14-3 against Nathan Young (St. John's, NL) and 7-5 against Glenn Howard (Penetanguishene, ON). Koe won 9-3 against Thomas Scoffin (Whitehorse, YK). Koe went on to lose 8-6 against Matt Dunstone (Regina, SK). Koe responded with a 5-2 win over James Grattan (Oromocto, NB). Koe won 5-4 against Brendan Bottcher (Edmonton, CAN), then won 8-3 against Tyler Smith (Crapaud, PEI) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Tim Hortons Brier, Koe take home 65.287 world rankings points. Koe move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 59.099 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 3rd overall with 373.175 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Koe ranks 3rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 373.175 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	55	22	0	0.714	16-5	7-7	5-6	4-1	0-3

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	591	494	341	8.36	5.77	2.59	4.67	4.04	1.79	1.43	1.29

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	295	389	59	42	10-0	29-4	95-4	1.32	0.20	0.53	0.16

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	296	105	282	34	2-4	8-10	13-57	0.35	0.95	0.63	0.24

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

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