2014 Point Optical Curling Classic
The 2014 Point Optical Curling Classic was held September 26-29 at the Nutana Curling Club in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. It was the 39th edition of the event.[1] The event was held on Week 5 of the 2014–15 World Curling Tour. The event had a purse of $41,000 The winning team won $11,000.
| 2014 Point Optical Curling Classic | |
|---|---|
| Host city | Saskatoon, Saskatchewan |
| Arena | Nutana Curling Club |
| Dates | September 26–39 |
| Winner |  Mike McEwen |
| Curling club | Fort Rouge CC, Winnipeg |
| Skip | Mike McEwen |
| Third | B. J. Neufeld |
| Second | Matt Wozniak |
| Lead | Denni Neufeld |
| Finalist |  John Epping |
The Mike McEwen rink from Winnipeg won their second Point Optical Classic, defeating Toronto's John Epping rink in the final. It is the McEwen rink's second WCT win of the season, after having previously defeated Team Epping at the 2014 Stu Sells Oakville Tankard.
Teams
Teams are as follows (only skip name shown)
Matthew Blandford - eliminated, 4 wins- Brendan Bottcher - eliminated, 3 wins
- Reid Carruthers - eliminated, 1 win
Brady Clark - eliminated, 1 win
Dale Craig - eliminated, 0 wins
Peter de Cruz - eliminated, 2 wins- Clint Dieno - C qualifier
Niklas Edin - B qualifier- John Epping - C qualifier
Brad Gushue - C qualifier- Jeff Hartung - eliminated, 2 wins
- Brad Jacobs - A qualifier
- Kevin Koe - C qualifier
- Bruce Korte - eliminated, 3 wins
- Chad Lang - eliminated, 0 wins
- Steve Laycock - eliminated, 2 wins
- William Lyburn - eliminated, 0 wins
- Kevin Marsh - eliminated, 0 wins
- Mike McEwen - A qualifier
- Sven Michel - eliminated, 1 win
Yusuke Morozumi - B qualifier- Chris Plys - eliminated, 2 wins
- Robert Schlender - eliminated, 2 wins
- Aaron Sluchinski - eliminated, 3 wins
- Jeff Stoughton - eliminated, 3 wins
- Brock Virtue - eliminated, 2 wins
Playoffs
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||
| Brad Jacobs
| 6 | |||||||||||||
| Clint Dieno
| 1 | |||||||||||||
| Brad Jacobs
| 2 | |||||||||||||
| John Epping
| 3 | |||||||||||||
| Niklas Edin
| 4 | |||||||||||||
| John Epping
| 7 | |||||||||||||
| John Epping
| 4 | |||||||||||||
| Mike McEwen
| 5 | |||||||||||||
| Mike McEwen
| 5 | |||||||||||||
| Kevin Koe
| 3 | |||||||||||||
| Mike McEwen
| 6 | |||||||||||||
| Brad Gushue
| 0 | |||||||||||||
| Yusuke Morozumi
| 3 | |||||||||||||
| Brad Gushue
| 5 | |||||||||||||
References
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