Eighteen teams ready to rumble for Scotties title inside Calgary curling bubble
The NHL, NBA and WNBA got it done in the summer. Then the World Juniors followed suit over the holidays. The Australian Open is finding its way as well. Now, it’s curling’s turn to enter the bubble. It all starts on Friday. Here s TSN.ca s preview of the 2021 Scotties Tournament of Hearts.
Scotties Tournament of Hearts: Final - Ontario 7, Manitoba 8 (11)
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The NHL, NBA and WNBA got it done in the summer. Then the World Juniors followed suit over the holidays. The Australian Open is finding its way as well. Now, it’s curling’s turn to enter the bubble.
We needed to take our time and do our due diligence on this selection process, Curling Canada chief executive officer Katherine Henderson said Friday in a release. In the end, it was decided that we created the Canadian Team Ranking System for exactly these purposes. It is a proven system with a history that we use for all of our other selection processes, and ultimately, from a consistency standpoint, it makes the most sense for this situation.
The Scotties is set for Feb. 19-28 at the Markin MacPhail Centre and the Brier will run March 5-14. The Canada Olympic Park venue will hold six events in all in a spectator-free setting due to the pandemic.
Zacharias, Peterson ready to prove they belong with Canada’s best inside Scotties bubble
Manitoba skips Mackenzie Zacharias and Beth Peterson will each make their Scotties Tournament of Hearts debuts later this month inside the Calgary curling bubble. And both are ready to prove they belong with Canada s elite on the pebbled ice.
Ryan Horne, TSN.ca Staff Team Mackenzie Zacharias celebrates Canadian junior title , Curling Canada
Last February, Mackenzie Zacharias and her rink from the Altona Curling Club in Manitoba stood atop the podium in Krasnoyarsk, Russia as world junior champions.
Less than 12 months later, after one of the most unbelievable years in quite some time, Team Zacharias is going to its first career Scotties Tournament of Hearts inside the Calgary curling bubble.
Carey to replace Fleury at Scotties
Shorty after it was officially announced that Manitoba s Team Tracy Fleury will be a Wild Card team at the Scotties Tournament of Heats, the East St. Paul rink revealed that Chelsea Carey will replace Fleury at the skip position inside the Calgary curling bubble.
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Shorty after it was officially announced that Manitoba s Team Tracy Fleury will be a Wild Card team at the Scotties Tournament of Heats, the East St. Paul rink revealed that Chelsea Carey will replace Fleury at the skip position inside the Calgary curling bubble.
Fleury will stay home with her young daughter, Nina, who is receiving treatment for a medical condition.
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Two-time Canadian womenâs curling champion Chelsea Carey, who has been without a team since the end of the 2019-20 season, will compete in the 2021 Scotties Tournament of Hearts as skip of the Tracy Fleury team from Winnipeg.
Fleury, whose team is getting into the Scotties as one of three wild cards, will not participate in the Scotties because of an illness in her family.
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âTracy is staying home,â Team Fleury third Selena Njegovan said. âHer daughter has (an illness) so Tracy made the decision that she wasnât going to play the Scotties.