Edin Reaches 2023 BKT Tires & OK Tire World Men's Curling Championship Quarters

SKIP
Niklas
Edin

Third
Oskar
Eriksson

Second
Rasmus
Wrana

Lead
Christoffer
Sundgren

Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE) qualified for the 2023 BKT Tires & OK Tire World Men's Curling Championship playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 9-1 against Brad Gushue (St. John's, CAN). of the 2023 BKT Tires & OK Tire World Men's Curling Championship in Ottawa, Ontario;

Edin finished 9-3 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Edin defeated Sixten Totzek (Baden Baden, GER) 8-2, then won 11-6 against John Shuster (Duluth, USA) and 7-4 against Bruce Mouat (Stirling, SCO). Edin won 8-3 against ByeongJin Jeong (Seoul, KOR), then won 8-3 against Ugurcan Karagoz (Erzurum, TUR) and 9-6 against Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN). Edin went on to lose 8-7 against Magnus Ramsfjell (Lillehammer, NOR). Edin responded with a 10-3 win over Lukas Klima (Prague, CZE). Edin won 6-2 against Joel Retornaz (Trentino, ITA), then won 7-1 against Anton Hood (Naseby, NZL). Edin went on to lose 8-5 against Yannick Schwaller (Geneva, SUI). Edin lost 8-5 to Gushue in their final qualifying round match.

Edin earned 33.000 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the BKT Tires & OK Tire World Men's Curling Championship. Edin gained 3 points improving upon their best 8 events, though dropped 2 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 3rdplace overall with 358.750 total points. Edin ranks 3rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 358.750 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	84	23	0	0.785	22-6	12-7	6-8	3-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	794	720	437	9.07	5.50	3.56	5.06	3.79	1.79	1.45	1.15

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	390	538	67	49	13-0	48-3	112-9	1.38	0.17	0.51	0.13

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	404	182	370	42	5-2	8-18	37-79	0.45	0.92	0.60	0.28

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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