Bottcher Runner-Up at 2023 Alberta Boston Pizza Cup

SKIP
Brendan
Bottcher

Third
Marc
Kennedy

Second
Brett
Gallant

Lead
Ben
Hebert

Brendan Bottcher (Calgary, AB) lost 6-5 to Kevin Koe (Calgary, AB) in the Final of the Alberta Boston Pizza Cup, held February 8 - 12, 2023 at the River Cree Twin Rinks in Enoch, Canada.

Bottcher finished 3-0 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Bottcher defeated Kyler Kleibrink (Calgary, AB) 8-1, then won 9-1 against Karsten Sturmay (St. Albert, AB) to advance to the A-Qualifier where they 8-3 against Daylan Vavrek (Sexsmith, AB) to advance to the playoff round. in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Alberta Boston Pizza Cup, Bottcher take home 22.000 world rankings points. Bottcher move up 2 spots after posting a net gain of 11.5 points improving upon their best 7 results so far this season, ranking 3rd overall with 322.272 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Bottcher ranks 5th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 273.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	52	18	0	0.743	18-5	9-5	8-2	1-0	1-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	546	424	290	7.77	5.31	2.45	4.52	3.63	1.72	1.46	1.85

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	285	328	48	63	10-0	19-1	72-9	1.15	0.17	0.46	0.13

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	261	96	242	38	3-4	4-7	16-54	0.37	0.93	0.60	0.24

2024: Aaron Sluchinski
Aaron Sluchinski, Jeremy Harty, Kerr Drummond, Dylan Webster , Mickey Pendergast
Airdrie, AB
2023: Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe, Tyler Tardi, Bradley Thiessen, Karrick Martin
Calgary, AB
2022: Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe, John Morris, B.J. Neufeld, Ben Hebert , John Dunn
Calgary, AB
2020: Brendan Bottcher
Brendan Bottcher, Darren Moulding, Bradley Thiessen, Karrick Martin
Edmonton, AB
2019: Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe, B.J. Neufeld, Colton Flasch, Ben Hebert
Calgary, AB
2018: Brendan Bottcher
Brendan Bottcher, Darren Moulding, Bradley Thiessen, Karrick Martin
Edmonton, AB
2017: Brendan Bottcher
Brendan Bottcher, Darren Moulding, Bradley Thiessen, Karrick Martin
Edmonton, AB
2016: Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe, Marc Kennedy, Brent Laing, Ben Hebert
Calgary, AB
2015: Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe, Marc Kennedy, Brent Laing, Ben Hebert
Calgary, AB
2014: Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe, Pat Simmons, Carter Rycroft, Nolan Thiessen
Calgary, AB
2013: Kevin Martin
Kevin Martin, John Morris, Marc Kennedy, Ben Hebert
Edmonton, AB
2012: Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe, Pat Simmons, Carter Rycroft, Nolan Thiessen, Blake MacDonald
Calgary, AB
2011: Kevin Martin
Kevin Martin, John Morris, Mark Kennedy, Ben Hebert
Edmonton, AB
2009: Kevin Martin
Kevin Martin, John Morris, Mark Kennedy, Ben Hebert
, AB

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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