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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.
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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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When Edmonton’s Kelsey Rocque made a decision to change up her curling team after the 2019-20 season, she was thinking it would lead to future success.
News that Curling Canada has officially announced it is looking at 18-team fields for the Tim Hortons Brier and Scotties Tournament of Hearts this year was met…
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Abandoning the provincial structure will kill the Brier.
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Abandoning the provincial structure will kill the Brier.
Somehow, the very Canadian debate on the format of the Brier/Scotties nationals has bubbled to the surface amidst this pandemic. Once again, the debate of what these championships are and how we should qualify the teams has been the subject of podcasts and newspaper articles.
Curling Canada, understandably desperate to run its most lucrative events, has scheduled a Brier and a Scotties to be held in an NHL-style bubble.
Some curlers and media types have emerged from isolation to suggest that Curling Canada should use this occasion to finally eliminate all the weaker teams from the Brier and just invite the top 10 or 16 Canadian Team Ranking System (CTRS) squads in the country. The current format guarantees a spot at the Brier for each of Canada’s provinces and territories. Changing the format to the top 16 would elim