My main man playing in The Brier, Kris Granchelli, along with his team from Nova Scotia just finished their 5th game and now sit at 2-3. They are around the middle of the table, but what has to concern them is the fact that their schedule is heavily back-loaded with the top teams. One way to look at it is they should be able to gain ground on those ahead of them with victories, however, they will be tough.
Sunday afternoon saw Nova Scotia in the feature match on TSN. I gotta tell you, it was pretty neat seeing my buddy's
The feature match-up was a debacle for the NS team. They were playing NWT/Yukon (I like how our third territory doesn't even get a mention). I personally was already counting this one in the standings which I guess is not recommended. Kris curled 82% which from what I can tell is OK for a lead, but not outstanding. Their 3rd, Bruce Lohnes chucked a 67% which I know really sucks. Long story short, they lost to the perennial door mats and fell to 1-2. On TSN. HD. Live. Plus Nova Scotia hosts the Brier next year. I might go.
Monday morning they were matched up against Russ Howard and New Brunswick. Now I know Russ has won the Brier with Ontario I think. I'm not sure if he has playing out of New Brunswick. He may even be a world champion. I'm not going to look it up because it seems to me like he pussied out by leaving Ontario where the competition HAS to be stiffer than NB. You do what you gotta do, eh? Anyway, NB won 10-7 with Granchelli throwing a sparkling 91% for 73pts. (I went to Wikipedia to try to figure this out. Nothing. I'm going to have to make a phone call.) Once again the NS 3rd chucked bricks like was Dontrelle Willis in a Tiger's uniform for 68% & 54pts. That dropped the team to 1-3.
They had to go right back out there in Draw 7 to play Northern Ontario. They should merge these guys with the territories. Seriously. They got the boot from Ontario because no one from the south wanted to travel that far just to lay the boots down on them. It always happened. We have Northern Ontario and Ontario. No Southern Ontario. Good stuff. Granchelli continues his torrid pace by putting up 90% & 61pts. NS wins as Lohnes finally puts his glasses back on and jumps up to 76%. Basically from what I can tell, if you curl in the 60's your team will loose. It's a Shore Thing!
So the team now stands at 2-3 and are probably sucking back a few Keith's/Alpines right now. Kris' stats put him just shy of middle of the pack for Leads with an overall 85% accuracy rate. I think his numbers today are a truer reflection of his abilities and hopefully the entire team can get hot as they begin to go up against what most would agree are the better teams.
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Cheers,
-mrjackstraw
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