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First Grand Slam .. New Beginning
Posted: November 13, 2012
This weekend is the first grand slam of the season and more importantly the first grand slam under new ownership of Rogers Media. For all of us curlers it is great to have that size...
Red Deer ends the streak
Posted: November 07, 2012
All good things must come to an end I guess. After 16 consecutive wins and two events titles our luck finally ran out and we lost the final this past weekend in Red Deer to Brendan...
Two in a row
Posted: October 31, 2012
As most of you know by now we backed up our big win in Portage with our first ever win at the Brooks Pheasant Classic this past weekend. We took a much simple route in...
First win of the Year and off to Brooks
Posted: October 24, 2012
First of all apologies for a lower number of event preview and breakdowns so far this year. I left immediately after New West on a holiday to Mexico with the family and returned just in...
New West preview and a little Nolan rant
Posted: October 02, 2012
New West Preview New West is up this weekend. Easily one of the best events on tour year after year with first class volunteers who year after year look after us players. This is the seventh...
Two weeks summary!
Posted: September 27, 2012
First of all I apologize for waiting so long to write a blog about our first two events. Lifes busy these days with a pregnant wife, my own business, practice, workouts and kids sports and...
Brockville ... Another year begins
Posted: September 12, 2012
And so it begins again. I am currently sitting in the Edmonton airport (after a helacious battle to get through security but that is a topic for another day) and about to board to head...
Players Championship preview
Posted: April 13, 2012
Well this is the end of the year. Long season that started in late September in Saskatoon is almost over. The prestigious Players Championship starts next week in PEI. Our first game in PEI will...
Victoria ... Golf weekend
Posted: April 03, 2012
Recap Well we got home from Victoria and it was a successful weekend. A close semifinal battle with Kevin Martin’s team, along with a win over Mike McEwen’s team in the B event can be considered a...
Victoria
Posted: March 27, 2012
As I tweeted out a week ago the big decision before Victoria is always "go to curling practice or go get the golf swing in order". Victoria is a great event for all of the curlers...
Brier blog ... That sucks
Posted: March 13, 2012
First off before we get into anything on here we should say thanks to all of the the countless volunteers who did an amazing job in Saskatoon. Every Brier is different and has it’s things...
Brier blog ... Brier final time!
Posted: March 11, 2012
It is no secret what the mind set of our team was this week ... Win the whole thing! That is the type of pressure that we put on ourselves. We come to these events...
Brier blog ... Play-off time
Posted: March 09, 2012
The anxiety levels are up, buttflies are in the stomach, not quite getting the same sleep I normally get on the road ... Must be playoff time at the Brier. We sort of crawled to...
Brier blog ... Final RR day
Posted: March 08, 2012
Been a back and forth couple of days. We were rolling right along at 6-0 when we played Northern Ontario tuesday afternoon. We had a chance to get 5 in the 3rd and would have...
Brier blog after day 2
Posted: March 04, 2012
We have been here since Thursday at 3pm and it feels like we have been in beautiful Saskatoon for two weeks. The first two days are a grind! Thursday night you have a few drinks...
Brier Preview
Posted: February 27, 2012
So it is almost here. Next Saturday night at 630pm we finally get to start the Brier. Our team is meeting up in Calgary on Wednesday for some team practices and a send-off at The...
Brier bound ... Team Alberta!
Posted: February 13, 2012
Well as everyone who has the internet knows we had a great week in Camrose and will once again be Team Alberta at the Tim Horton’s Brier this year. It’s the second time in three...
Hello from cold Camrose
Posted: February 10, 2012
As most of you know by now we took the A event final last night over Kevin Martin. It’s nice to read stories of ending his win streak and it was a great win but...
Inspiration for Provincials
Posted: February 06, 2012
A little humor today ... with a little bit of inspiration. I for one enjoy a good motivational sports speech from the movies and here is my favorite one out there. I often listen to it...
Provincials in Camrose
Posted: February 01, 2012
Road to the Show Almost all curlers have the goal these days of making it to and winning the Olympics. However when it isn’t an Olympic year the goal for all mens teams in Canada is...
Dawson recap
Posted: January 31, 2012
Dawson recap No TV in Dawson ... tons going on there but we’ll talk about that another time! In terms of our on-ice product, I blogged about it during the event and the good news is we...
Go time at the Slam
Posted: January 27, 2012
Quite the weekend so far. Frustrating for all four of us as we haven’t been able to get on the same page all weekend so far. One guy plays good and the next guy will...
Pomeroy Inn and Suites National in Dawson Creek
Posted: January 19, 2012
Dawson Creek here we come Well it has been quite the past 24 hours. As many of you know the MotherCorp CBC is out of Curling and has pulled out of broadcasting the Grand Slam of Curling...
Skins Game Champs!
Posted: January 10, 2012
Casino Rama Skins Game Champs Well it was nice to finally win an event! We played pretty well this weekend, picked up on the couple of tricky spots on the ice and made enough big shots to...
Skins game
Posted: January 04, 2012
Casino Rama TSN Skins Game We took a little time off from updating the site during the holiday season but we’re back and will be updating the site again on a frequent basis so make sure...
First half breakdown
Posted: December 20, 2011
Canadian Open in Kingston It started out great for us as we beat JM Menard in our first game Wednesday night then played a solid game Thursday morning and beat Olympic champion Kevin Martin to go to...
Kingston Slam
Posted: December 12, 2011
Off to Kingston tomorrow We decided to try going out Tuesday night instead of the red eye on Tuesday at midnight. We won’t make it to our hotel till close to 1 am Edmonton time but...
Canada Cup ... Maybe next year
Posted: December 05, 2011
Canada Cup The addition this year of the direct entry into the 2014 Olympic Trials made this years Canada Cup much more intense than last year. You could feel it on the ice and with all...
Canada Cup - mid event
Posted: December 02, 2011
Hello all Team Koe fans! Quick little note from Cranbrook. We haven’t quite had the results we have been looking for but we are playing well and still in the thick of this event! Two...
Brantford ... Keep grinding
Posted: November 23, 2011
Brantford Last weekend was our first time making it out to Brantford for the Sun Life Classic. They put on quite the event out there with games going on at three clubs it makes it a little...
World Cup ... who knew we were a draw team?
Posted: November 09, 2011
The World Cup of Curling This past weekend actually ended positively for us even though we again didn’t reach our ultimate goal of winning our first grand slam event. After fighting through a red-eye flight down...
Brooks ... Damn McEwen
Posted: October 31, 2011
Brooks So it was another progression for our team this weekend. We were able to beat Glenn Howard which we hadn’t done since the Players Championship in 2010 but we were unable to defeat McEwen again as...
Portage ... great building block
Posted: October 26, 2011
The week that was in Portage The last second addition of Portage to our schedule ended up being a worthwhile investment of time and money as we fought our way through the C event and ended...
Portage la Prairie
Posted: October 17, 2011
We were off the tour this weekend. Well needed break after being out of town three weekends in a row to start. But we get right back at it this weekend with the Canad Inns...
New West ... promising start and awful ending
Posted: October 13, 2011
Past weekend results As everyone probably knows from looking at our results page or keeping up to date on the WCT website, we qualified through the A side this weekend then lost out in the quarters. We...
Vernon ... we’re getting there
Posted: October 04, 2011
Vernon review So it was a good weekend but not quite the result that we wanted. We only played four games as we went directly to the playoff round through the A side which got us...
Saskatoon ... Not quite hitting on all cylinders yet
Posted: September 26, 2011
Saskatoon in review Saskatoon put on a great event once again this weekend. The blistering 30 degree heat and Rider game on Saturday afternoon didn’t keep the curling fans away as the place was packed for...
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