CHAMPION: Dropkin Wins 2022 HearingLife Tour Challenge Tier 2

SKIP
Korey
Dropkin

Third
Andrew
Stopera

Second
Mark
Fenner

Lead
Thomas
Howell

Korey Dropkin (Duluth, MN) won 6-3 over Aaron Sluchinski (Calgary, AB) in the Final of the HearingLife Tour Challenge Tier 2, held October 18 - 23, 2022 in Grande Prairie, Alberta. To advance to the championship game, Dropkin won 5-2 over Felix Asselin (Montreal, QC) in the semifinals of the 2022 HearingLife Tour Challenge Tier 2 in Grande Prairie, Alberta; and won 3-2 over Ryan Wiebe (Winnipeg, MB) in the quarterfinals. of the 2022 HearingLife Tour Challenge Tier 2 in Grande Prairie, Alberta;

Dropkin finished 3-1 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Dropkin defeated Ryan Jacques (Edmonton, AB) 4-1, then won 7-3 against Chang-Min Kim (Gyeongbuk, KOR). Dropkin went on to lose 6-3 against Kody Hartung (Saskatoon, SK). Dropkin responded with a 7-2 win over Karsten Sturmay (Edmonton, AB) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the HearingLife Tour Challenge Tier 2 Championship title, Dropkin earned 37.500 world rankings points along with the $10,000CDN first prize cheque. Dropkin move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 16.5 points improving upon their best 3 results so far this season, ranking 11th overall with 183.996 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Dropkin ranks 5th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 110.250 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	55	35	0	0.611	8-5	11-10	2-2	0-1	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	685	508	452	7.42	6.60	0.82	4.31	4.26	1.72	1.55	1.43

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	334	381	97	50	14-1	19-4	84-15	1.14	0.29	0.41	0.21

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	351	127	355	48	4-12	9-14	15-67	0.36	1.01	0.58	0.23

2023: Daniel Casper
Daniel Casper, Luc Violette, Ben Richardson, Chase Sinnett , Jordan Moulton
Chaska, MN
2022: Korey Dropkin
Korey Dropkin, Andrew Stopera, Mark Fenner, Thomas Howell
Duluth, MN
2019: Korey Dropkin
Korey Dropkin, Thomas Howell, Mark Fenner, Alex Fenson, Joe Polo, Shawn Rojeski
Chaska, USA
2018: Kirk Muyres
Kirk Muyres, Kevin Marsh, Daniel Marsh, Dallan Muyres
Saskatoon, SK
2017: Jason Gunnlaugson
Jason Gunnlaugson, Alex Forrest, Ian McMillan, Connor Njegovan
Winnipeg, MB
2016: Greg Balsdon
Greg Balsdon, Jonathan Beuk, David Staples, Scott Chadwick
Kingston, ON
2015: Jim Cotter
Jim Cotter, Ryan Kuhn, Tyrel Griffith, Rick Sawatsky
Vernon, BC

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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