2018 Canada Cup

The 2018 Home Hardware Canada Cup was held December 5–9 at Affinity Place in Estevan, Saskatchewan.^[1] The tournament winners qualified for the 2021 Canadian Olympic Curling Pre-Trials.

2018 Home Hardware Canada Cup
Host city	Estevan, Saskatchewan
Arena	Affinity Place
Dates	December 5–9
Men's winner	Team Jacobs
Curling club	Community First CC, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
Skip	Brad Jacobs
Third	Marc Kennedy
Second	E. J. Harnden
Lead	Ryan Harnden
Coach	Adam Kingsbury
Finalist	Kevin Koe
Women's winner	Team Jones
Curling club	St. Vital CC, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Skip	Jennifer Jones
Third	Kaitlyn Lawes
Second	Jocelyn Peterman
Lead	Dawn McEwen
Finalist	Kerri Einarson
« 2016 2019 »

Both the men's and women's events have a total purse of $70,000 with the winners receiving $14,000 and the runners up winning $9,000.^[2]

Men

Teams

A revised version of the World Curling Tour's Order of Merit ranking system, allowing the many new teams for the 2018–19 curling season to carry over points individual players earned on their former teams, as of May 1, 2018, was used to qualify the first six men's teams. Team Dunstone qualified as the top-ranking non-qualified team on the Canadian Team Ranking System as of November 11, 2018.^[3][4]

Skip	Third	Second	Lead	Locale
Brendan Bottcher	Darren Moulding	Brad Thiessen	Karrick Martin	Saville Community Sports Centre, Edmonton, Alberta
Mike McEwen^[5]	Reid Carruthers	Derek Samagalski	Colin Hodgson	West St. Paul Curling Club, West St. Paul, Manitoba
Matt Dunstone	Braeden Moskowy	Catlin Schneider	Dustin Kidby	Highland Curling Club, Regina, Saskatchewan
John Epping	Mat Camm	Brent Laing	Craig Savill	Leaside Curling Club, East York, Toronto, Ontario
Brad Gushue	Mark Nichols	Brett Gallant	Geoff Walker	Bally Haly Golf & Curling Club & RE/MAX Centre, St. John's
Brad Jacobs	Marc Kennedy^[6]	E. J. Harnden	Ryan Harnden	Community First Curling Centre, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
Kevin Koe	B. J. Neufeld	Colton Flasch	Ben Hebert	The Glencoe Club, Calgary, Alberta

^[7]

Round-robin standings

Final round-robin standings

Key
	Teams to Playoffs
	Teams to Tiebreaker

Skip	W	L	PF	PA	EW	EL	BE	SE	S%
Brad Jacobs	5	1	42	30	27	22	3	9	87%
Brad Gushue	4	2	45	33	26	23	2	7	86%
Kevin Koe	4	2	42	37	21	20	5	3	86%
Brendan Bottcher	4	2	41	42	23	19	4	6	82%
John Epping	3	3	34	35	23	23	5	4	83%
Matt Dunstone	1	5	32	41	17	24	4	2	83%
Reid Carruthers	0	6	21	39	15	20	6	4	81%

Round-robin results

Draw 1

Wednesday, December 5, 9:00 am

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
John Epping	2	0	0	2	1	0	0	1	0	1	7
Brendan Bottcher	0	2	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	5

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Brad Jacobs	0	2	0	0	2	0	2	0	3	X	9
Kevin Koe	1	0	1	0	0	2	0	1	0	X	5

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Brad Gushue	1	0	1	0	0	2	0	1	1	1	7
Matt Dunstone	0	1	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	4

Draw 2

Wednesday, December 5, 2:00 pm

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Brad Jacobs	1	0	1	0	2	0	3	0	1	X	8
Brad Gushue	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	X	4

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
John Epping	0	0	0	1	1	2	0	0	2	X	6
Reid Carruthers	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	X	3

Draw 3

Wednesday, December 5, 7:00 pm

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Reid Carruthers	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	1	X	X	5
Brendan Bottcher	1	0	0	2	0	4	2	0	X	X	9

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Kevin Koe	0	0	2	0	3	0	2	1	0	1	9
Matt Dunstone	2	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	6

Draw 4

Thursday, December 6, 9:00 am

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Brad Gushue	1	0	0	5	1	0	X	X	X	X	7
John Epping	0	0	1	0	0	1	X	X	X	X	2

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Reid Carruthers	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	4
Brad Jacobs	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	5

Draw 5

Thursday, December 6, 2:00 pm

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Matt Dunstone	0	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	X	4
Brad Jacobs	0	1	0	0	2	0	2	0	2	X	7

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Brendan Bottcher	2	0	2	0	2	0	0	2	0	1	9
Brad Gushue	0	1	0	2	0	2	1	0	2	0	8

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Kevin Koe	3	0	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	1	8
John Epping	0	1	0	0	1	0	2	0	2	0	6

Draw 6

Thursday, December 6, 7:00 pm

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Reid Carruthers	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	2
Kevin Koe	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	1	0	4

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Matt Dunstone	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	0	2	0	6
Brendan Bottcher	0	0	2	0	2	1	0	2	0	1	8

Draw 7

Friday, December 7, 9:00 am

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Brendan Bottcher	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	X	X	3
Kevin Koe	2	0	4	0	4	0	0	0	X	X	10

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Matt Dunstone	2	0	2	0	2	0	0	1	X	X	7
Reid Carruthers	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	X	X	3

Draw 8

Friday, December 7, 2:00 pm

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Brad Gushue	0	2	1	0	3	0	0	0	2	X	8
Reid Carruthers	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	X	4

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
John Epping	2	0	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	6
Brad Jacobs	0	1	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	2	7

Draw 9

Friday, December 7, 7:00 pm

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
John Epping	0	0	2	0	2	0	1	0	2	X	7
Matt Dunstone	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	X	5

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Kevin Koe	1	0	2	0	2	0	0	1	0	X	6
Brad Gushue	0	4	0	2	0	2	1	0	2	X	11

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Brad Jacobs	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	1	1	0	6
Brendan Bottcher	0	1	1	0	2	0	1	0	0	2	7

Tiebreaker

Saturday, December 8, 9:00 am

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Kevin Koe	0	0	1	0	3	0	2	0	0	2	8
Brendan Bottcher	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	3	0	0	7

Player percentages
Team Koe		Team Bottcher
Ben Hebert	93%	Karrick Martin	95%
Colton Flasch	100%	Brad Thiessen	91%
B.J. Neufeld	86%	Darren Moulding	90%
Kevin Koe	76%	Brendan Bottcher	88%
Total	89%	Total	91%

Playoffs

	Semifinal					Final
						1	Brad Jacobs	5
	2	Brad Gushue	5			3	Kevin Koe	4
	3	Kevin Koe	7

Semifinal

Saturday, December 8, 2:00 pm

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Brad Gushue	0	2	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	5
Kevin Koe	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	2	1	1	7

Player percentages
Team Gushue		Team Koe
Geoff Walker	86%	Ben Hebert	98%
Brett Gallant	83%	Colton Flasch	91%
Mark Nichols	84%	B.J. Neufeld	93%
Brad Gushue	81%	Kevin Koe	78%
Total	83%	Total	90%

Final

Sunday, December 9, 7:00 pm

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Brad Jacobs	2	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	5
Kevin Koe	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	4

Player percentages
Team Jacobs		Team Koe
Ryan Harnden	94%	Ben Hebert	94%
E. J. Harnden	91%	Colton Flasch	86%
Marc Kennedy	95%	B. J. Neufeld	84%
Brad Jacobs	80%	Kevin Koe	78%
Total	90%	Total	85%

Player percentages

After Round Robin Play; Includes games played at other positions

Leads	%	Seconds	%	Thirds/Skips	%	Fourths/Skips	%
Karrick Martin	88%	Brad Thiessen	82%	Darren Moulding	82%	Brendan Bottcher	82%
Colin Hodgson	90%	Derek Samagalski	81%	Reid Carruthers	78%	Mike McEwen	77%
Dustin Kidby	91%	Catlin Schneider	80%	Braeden Moskowy	80%	Matt Dunstone	79%
Craig Savill	85%	Brent Laing	84%	Mathew Camm	81%	John Epping	83%
Geoff Walker	90%	Brett Gallant	82%	Mark Nichols	87%	Brad Gushue	84%
Ryan Harnden	88%	E. J. Harnden	90%	Marc Kennedy	85%	Brad Jacobs	85%
Ben Hebert	90%	Colton Flasch	88%	B. J. Neufeld	88%	Kevin Koe	82%

Women

Teams

A revised version of the World Curling Tour's Order of Merit ranking system, allowing the many new teams for the 2018–19 curling season to carry over points individual players earned on their former teams, as of May 1, 2018, was used to qualify the first six teams. However, due to a virtual tie, a seventh women's teams was invited using this method. Team Flaxey qualified as the top-ranking non-qualified team on the Canadian Team Ranking System as of November 11, 2018.^[3][4] Team Tracy Fleury had qualified for the event, but had to decline as they were representing Canada at the Second Leg of the 2018–19 Curling World Cup.

Skip	Third	Second	Lead	Locale
Chelsea Carey	Sarah Wilkes	Dana Ferguson	Rachelle Brown	The Glencoe Club, Calgary, Alberta
Kerri Einarson	Val Sweeting	Shannon Birchard	Briane Meilleur	Gimli Curling Club, Gimli, Manitoba
Allison Flaxey	Kate Cameron	Taylor McDonald	Raunora Westcott	Granite Curling Club, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Rachel Homan	Emma Miskew	Joanne Courtney	Lisa Weagle	Ottawa Curling Club, Ottawa, Ontario
Jennifer Jones	Kaitlyn Lawes	Jocelyn Peterman	Dawn McEwen	St. Vital Curling Club, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Darcy Robertson	Karen Klein	Vanessa Foster	Theresa Cannon	Assiniboine Memorial Curling Club, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Casey Scheidegger	Cary-Anne McTaggart	Jessie Scheidegger	Kristie Moore	Lethbridge Curling Club, Lethbridge, Alberta
Laura Walker	Cathy Overton-Clapham	Lori Olson-Johns	Laine Peters	Saville Community Sports Centre, Edmonton, Alberta

^[7]

Round-robin standings

Final round-robin standings

Key
	Teams to Playoffs
	Teams to Tiebreaker

Skip	W	L	PF	PA	EW	EL	BE	SE	S%
Kerri Einarson	6	1	49	35	32	28	4	9	82%
Jennifer Jones	5	2	49	40	28	30	2	4	79%
Rachel Homan	5	2	45	36	32	27	4	11	82%
Casey Scheidegger	4	3	50	41	33	27	4	7	79%
Laura Walker	3	4	40	46	30	30	5	6	79%
Chelsea Carey	2	5	38	54	26	33	2	6	77%
Allison Flaxey	2	5	36	49	25	29	6	7	79%
Darcy Robertson	1	6	49	55	31	33	2	6	77%

Round-robin results

Draw 1

Wednesday, December 5, 9:00 am

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Chelsea Carey	0	2	0	0	1	0	3	0	0	X	6
Darcy Robertson	2	0	3	1	0	2	0	1	2	X	11

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Laura Walker	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	5
Allison Flaxey	0	0	2	1	0	2	0	1	0	0	6

Draw 2

Wednesday, December 5, 2:00 pm

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Casey Scheidegger	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	3	X	6
Laura Walker	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	X	3

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Kerri Einarson	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	5
Rachel Homan	1	1	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	1	6

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Jennifer Jones	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	0	0	2	7
Chelsea Carey	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	1	1	0	5

Draw 3

Wednesday, December 5, 7:00 pm

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Jennifer Jones	3	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	3	X	9
Darcy Robertson	0	0	2	0	0	3	0	2	0	X	7

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Rachel Homan	1	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	5
Casey Scheidegger	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	1	2	1	7

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Kerri Einarson	2	0	0	0	2	2	0	1	0	X	7
Allison Flaxey	0	2	1	2	0	0	0	0	1	X	6

Draw 4

Thursday, December 6, 9:00 am

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Rachel Homan	0	0	3	0	2	2	0	1	X	X	8
Laura Walker	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	X	X	3

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Kerri Einarson	1	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	0	1	6
Jennifer Jones	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	3

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Casey Scheidegger	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	1	6
Chelsea Carey	0	1	0	2	0	2	0	0	2	0	7

Draw 5

Thursday, December 6, 2:00 pm

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Allison Flaxey	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	1	0	X	5
Chelsea Carey	0	1	0	0	2	2	0	0	2	X	7

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Darcy Robertson	0	0	0	2	1	0	1	0	1	0	5
Laura Walker	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	1	0	4	8

Draw 6

Thursday, December 6, 7:00 pm

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Darcy Robertson	0	2	0	1	0	0	2	1	1	0	7
Kerri Einarson	1	0	1	0	2	1	0	0	0	3	8

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Rachel Homan	1	0	0	1	0	2	0	1	X	X	5
Jennifer Jones	0	2	3	0	3	0	1	0	X	X	9

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Allison Flaxey	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	X	X	2
Casey Scheidegger	3	2	0	0	4	0	0	3	X	X	12

Draw 7

Friday, December 7, 9:00 am

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Kerri Einarson	2	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	3	X	8
Casey Scheidegger	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	X	5

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Jennifer Jones	0	2	0	1	0	2	0	2	0	X	7
Allison Flaxey	1	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	X	4

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Darcy Robertson	0	2	0	1	0	1	1	0	1	0	6
Rachel Homan	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	3	0	1	7

Draw 8

Friday, December 7, 2:00 pm

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Chelsea Carey	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	X	X	X	2
Rachel Homan	0	0	2	1	1	0	5	X	X	X	9

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Jennifer Jones	1	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	4	X	9
Casey Scheidegger	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	2	0	X	6

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Laura Walker	1	0	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	5
Kerri Einarson	0	1	0	0	1	0	4	0	1	1	8

Draw 9

Friday, December 7, 7:00 pm

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Laura Walker	0	0	1	1	0	1	1	0	4	0	1	9
Chelsea Carey	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	3	0	8

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Allison Flaxey	1	0	1	0	0	2	0	3	0	2	9
Darcy Robertson	0	2	0	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	6

Draw 10

Saturday, December 8, 9:00 am

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Laura Walker	0	0	1	0	2	0	2	0	1	1	7
Jennifer Jones	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	5

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Casey Scheidegger	1	0	2	0	1	0	2	1	0	1	8
Darcy Robertson	0	1	0	2	0	2	0	0	2	0	7

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Allison Flaxey	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	4
Rachel Homan	0	1	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	1	5

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Chelsea Carey	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	X	3
Kerri Einarson	0	3	0	1	0	0	1	0	2	X	7

Playoffs

	Semifinal					Final
						1	Kerri Einarson	5
	2	Jennifer Jones	8			2	Jennifer Jones	8
	3	Rachel Homan	4

Semifinal

Saturday, December 8, 8:00 pm

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Jennifer Jones	1	0	0	3	1	0	2	0	1	X	8
Rachel Homan	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	2	0	X	4

Player percentages
Team Jones		Team Homan
Dawn McEwen	88%	Lisa Weagle	81%
Jocelyn Peterman	88%	Joanne Courtney	83%
Kaitlyn Lawes	88%	Emma Miskew	79%
Jennifer Jones	88%	Rachel Homan	68%
Total	88%	Total	78%

Final

Sunday, December 9, 2:00 pm

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Kerri Einarson	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	1	0	X	5
Jennifer Jones	0	2	0	0	2	1	0	0	3	X	8

Player percentages
Team Einarson		Team Jones
Briane Meilleur	91%	Dawn McEwen	81%
Shannon Birchard	95%	Jocelyn Peterman	84%
Val Sweeting	78%	Kaitlyn Lawes	81%
Kerri Einarson	70%	Jennifer Jones	86%
Total	84%	Total	83%

Player percentages

After Round Robin

Leads	%	Seconds	%	Thirds	%	Skips	%
Rachelle Brown	81%	Dana Ferguson	78%	Sarah Wilkes	75%	Chelsea Carey	73%
Briane Meilleur	88%	Shannon Birchard	81%	Val Sweeting	83%	Kerri Einarson	75%
Raunora Westcott	85%	Taylor McDonald	80%	Kate Cameron	78%	Allison Flaxey	72%
Lisa Weagle	84%	Joanne Courtney	82%	Emma Miskew	82%	Rachel Homan	77%
Dawn McEwen	83%	Jocelyn Peterman	82%	Kaitlyn Lawes	81%	Jennifer Jones	75%
Theresa Cannon	78%	Vanessa Foster	78%	Karen Klein	74%	Darcy Robertson	78%
Kristie Moore	83%	Jessie Haughian	80%	Cary-Anne McTaggart	76%	Casey Scheidegger	76%
Laine Peters	85%	Lori Olson-Johns	80%	Cathy Overton-Clapham	76%	Laura Walker	73%

References

1. . www.curling.ca. Archived from the original on March 2, 2019. Retrieved July 4, 2018.
2. 2018 Home Hardware Canada Cup Media Guide: Fact Sheet, pg 7
3. "2018 Home Hardware Canada Cup field nearly complete". www.curling.ca. Retrieved July 5, 2018.
4. Cameron, Al (November 13, 2018). "FIELD NOW COMPLETE FOR 2018 HOME HARDWARE CANADA CUP". Curling Canada. Retrieved November 13, 2018.
5. "McEwen taking over as skip as Carruthers team heads into curling's Canada Cup".
6. "Kennedy to join Team Jacobs for Canada Cup". TSN. November 26, 2018. Retrieved November 26, 2018.
7. "Teams". www.curling.ca. Retrieved July 5, 2018.

External links

• Official website