2010 BDO Classic Canadian Open
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The 2010 BDO Classic Canadian Open will be the third Grand Slam of Curling tournament of the 2009-10 curling season
2009-10 curling season
The 2009–10 curling season began in September 2009 and ended in April 2010.-Season of Champions top three finishes:-Other events:-World Curling Tour events:-Women's World Curling Tour events:...

. It was held January 20-24 at the MTS Centre
MTS Centre
The MTS Centre is an indoor sports arena and entertainment venue in downtown Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and home of the Winnipeg Jets of the National Hockey League. It is located on the former Eaton's site and is owned and operated by True North Sports & Entertainment. The 440,000 square feet ...

 in Winnipeg
Winnipeg
Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of Manitoba, Canada, and is the primary municipality of the Winnipeg Capital Region, with more than half of Manitoba's population. It is located near the longitudinal centre of North America, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers .The name...

, Manitoba
Manitoba
Manitoba is a Canadian prairie province with an area of . The province has over 110,000 lakes and has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography. Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy; other...

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Teams

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Ted Appelman
Ted Appelman
Ted Appelman is a Canadian curler from Edmonton, Alberta. A former skip, he currently plays second for Randy Ferbey.Appelman has made most of his successes to date as a skip, during the 2008-09 curling season and the 2009-10 curling season. His team was invited to participate in the 2009 Canada...

 
Tom Appelman  Brandon Klassen  Brendan Melnyk    Edmonton
Edmonton
Edmonton is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta and is the province's second-largest city. Edmonton is located on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Capital Region, which is surrounded by the central region of the province.The city and its census...

Kerry Burtnyk
Kerry Burtnyk
Kerry Burtnyk is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. He grew up in Reston, Manitoba. He is a two time Canadian champion skip, and the 1995 World Champion skip.-Career:...

 
Don Walchuk
Don Walchuk
Donald J. Walchuk is a Canadian curler from Edmonton, Alberta. Until April 26, 2006, Walchuk played third for Kevin Martin's team.Walchuk joined up with Martin prior to the 1996 season...

 
Richard Daneault  Garth Smith    Winnipeg
Winnipeg
Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of Manitoba, Canada, and is the primary municipality of the Winnipeg Capital Region, with more than half of Manitoba's population. It is located near the longitudinal centre of North America, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers .The name...

David Nedohin
David Nedohin
David Nedohin is a Canadian curler from Sherwood Park, Alberta. He throws fourth rocks for the Randy Ferbey rink.-Curling career:...

 
Randy Ferbey
Randy Ferbey
Randy Ferbey is a Canadian curler from Sherwood Park, Alberta.Ferbey is a six-time Canadian champion and a four-time World Champion....

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Scott Pfeifer
Scott Pfeifer
Scott Pfeifer is a Canadian curler from Sherwood Park who plays out of the Saville Sports Centre in Edmonton....

 
Marcel Rocque
Marcel Rocque
Marcel Rocque is a Canadian curler home to the city of Edmonton, Alberta. He is a four-time winner of The Brier, the annual Canadian men's curling championship and a three-time World Champion as the lead for the Randy Ferbey team...

 
  Edmonton
Edmonton
Edmonton is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta and is the province's second-largest city. Edmonton is located on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Capital Region, which is surrounded by the central region of the province.The city and its census...

Jason Gunnlaugson
Jason Gunnlaugson
Jason "the Gunner" Gunnlaugson is a Canadian curler.Gunnlaugson is known for having been hired by the Russian Curling Federation to represent the country at the 2014 Winter Olympics...

 
Justin Richter  Braden Zawada  Tyler Forrest    Beausejour
Beausejour
Beausejour or Beauséjour may refer to:*Beauséjour , a federal electoral district in eastern New Brunswick, Canada*Beausejour, Manitoba, a town in Manitoba, Canada...

Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue
Bradley Raymond "Brad" Gushue, ONL is a Canadian curler from Mount Pearl, Newfoundland and Labrador. Gushue, along with teammates Russ Howard, Mark Nichols, Jamie Korab and Mike Adam, represented Canada in curling at the 2006 Winter Olympics, where they won the gold medal by defeating Finland...

 
Mark Nichols
Mark Nichols
Mark Nichols, ONL is a Canadian curler from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.Nichols played third for the Brad Gushue rink from 1999 to 2011, and represented Canada at the 2006 Winter Olympics. With Gushue, Nichols has been to three Canadian Junior Curling Championships and six Briers...

 
Ryan Fry
Ryan Fry
Ryan B. Fry is a Canadian curler currently playing third on the Brad Gushue team. Fry was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba on July 25, 1978. Fry is a right-handed shooter and delivers "tuck" style. Fry skipped a junior men's team to the 1996 and 1997 Canadian Junior Curling Championships representing...

 
Jamie Korab
Jamie Korab
Jamie A. Korab, ONL is a Canadian curler.Korab was the lead for the Canadian men's team at the 2006 Winter Olympics skipped by Brad Gushue....

 
  St. John's
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
St. John's is the capital and largest city in Newfoundland and Labrador, and is the oldest English-founded city in North America. It is located on the eastern tip of the Avalon Peninsula on the island of Newfoundland. With a population of 192,326 as of July 1, 2010, the St...

Glenn Howard
Glenn Howard
Glenn Howard is a Canadian curler from Penetanguishene, Ontario. He has won three Briers and three world championships in his career. He has also won six straight Ontario provincials.-1980s-2006:...

 
Richard Hart
Richard Hart (curler)
Richard Hart is a retired Canadian curler from Pickering, Ontario. With skip Glenn Howard, Hart has played in 8 straight Ontario Finals....

Brent Laing
Brent Laing
Brent Laing is a Canadian curler from Stayner, Ontario. He currently plays second for Glenn Howard....

 
Craig Savill
Craig Savill
Craig Edward Savill is a Canadian curler from Ottawa. He currently plays lead for former World Champion Glenn Howard rink....

 
  Coldwater
Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe is a Canadian curler. Originally from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, he now resides in Grande Prairie, Alberta and curls out of Edmonton, Alberta. He is the skip of the current World champion team....

 
Blake MacDonald
Blake MacDonald
Blake MacDonald is a Canadian curler from St. Albert, Alberta.For much of the team's history, MacDonald threw last rock for the team, while Koe held the broom. The two switched in 2009, with MacDonald throwing third rocks, but Koe still skipping. MacDonald has been playing with Koe since 2006...

 
Carter Rycroft
Carter Rycroft
Carter Rycroft is a Canadian curler from Sherwood Park, Alberta. He was a member of the Canadian Olympic team, skipped by Kevin Martin that won a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics...

 
Nolan Thiessen
Nolan Thiessen
Nolan Thiessen is a Canadian curler from Edmonton. He currently plays lead for Kevin Koe....

 
  Edmonton
Edmonton
Edmonton is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta and is the province's second-largest city. Edmonton is located on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Capital Region, which is surrounded by the central region of the province.The city and its census...

Kevin Martin
Kevin Martin (curler)
Kevin Martin , nicknamed "The Old Bear" and "K-Mart", is a Canadian curler from Edmonton. He is a four-time Brier champion, has been to three Winter Olympics and is the gold medal winner in the 2010 Winter Olympics...

 
John Morris
John Morris (curler)
John Morris is a Canadian curler, and Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic gold medalist from Chestermere, Alberta. Morris plays third for the Kevin Martin team. Morris, author of the book Fit to Curl, is the son of Maureen and Earle Morris, inventor of the "Stabilizer" curling broom...

 
Marc Kennedy
Marc Kennedy
Marc Kennedy is a Canadian curler, and Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic gold medalist from Edmonton, Alberta. Kennedy currently plays second for Kevin Martin....

 
Ben Hebert
Ben Hebert
Ben Hebert is a Canadian curler, a Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic gold medalist, 2008 World Champion and two time Brier Champion from Calgary, Alberta...

 
  Edmonton
Edmonton
Edmonton is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta and is the province's second-largest city. Edmonton is located on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Capital Region, which is surrounded by the central region of the province.The city and its census...

Dale Matchett
Dale Matchett
Dale Matchett is a Canadian curler from Alliston, Ontario. Matchett is a former provincial junior curling champion and a regular on the World Curling Tour....

 
Ryan Werenich  Jeff Gorda  Shawn Kaufman    Bradford
Bradford, Ontario
Bradford is the primary country urban area of the Town of Bradford West Gwillimbury, Ontario, in Canada. It overlooks a beautiful and prosperous farming community, known as The Holland Marsh, located on the Holland River that flows into Lake Simcoe...

Mike McEwen
Mike McEwen (curler)
Michael "Mike" McEwen is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba, who grew up in Brandon, Manitoba. The McEwen team curls out of the Assiniboine Memorial Curling Club in Winnipeg.-Career:...

 
B. J. Neufeld
B. J. Neufeld
B.J. Neufeld is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Neufeld plays lead for the McEwen team which curls out of the Assiniboine Memorial Curling Club in Winnipeg. He started curling around the age of ten and, like older brother Denni Neufeld, cites the achievements of his father as leading...

 
Matt Wozniak
Matt Wozniak
Matt Wozniak is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Wozniak plays second for the Mike McEwen team which curls out of the Assiniboine Memorial Curling Club in Winnipeg.-External Links:...

 
Denni Neufeld
Denni Neufeld
Denni Neufeld is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Neufeld plays lead for the McEwen team which curls out of the Assiniboine Memorial Curling Club in Winnipeg. He started curling around the age of ten and cites the achievements of his father as leading his interest into the game of curling...

 
  Winnipeg
Winnipeg
Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of Manitoba, Canada, and is the primary municipality of the Winnipeg Capital Region, with more than half of Manitoba's population. It is located near the longitudinal centre of North America, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers .The name...

Jean-Michel Ménard
Jean-Michel Ménard
Jean-Michel Ménard is a curler from Quebec, Canada. Ménard is notable for being the first Francophone skip from Quebec to win the Brier - Canada's national curling championship- which he did in 2006.-Profile:...

 
Martin Crête  Éric Sylvain
Éric Sylvain
Éric Sylvain is a Canadian curler from Lévis. He currently plays second for Jean-Michel Ménard.Sylvain joined up with Ménard in 2003, and qualified for his first Brier in 2005 as a member of Team Quebec...

 
Jean Gagnon
Jean Gagnon
Jean Gagnon is a Canadian-born former ice hockey player who played 20 seasons of professional hockey, including 6 seasons with HC Fribourg-Gottéron in the Swiss National League A.-Awards and honours:-External links:...

 
  Gatineau
Gatineau
Gatineau is a city in western Quebec, Canada. It is the fourth largest city in the province. It is located on the northern banks of the Ottawa River, immediately across from Ottawa, Ontario, and together they form Canada's National Capital Region. Ottawa and Gatineau comprise a single Census...

Wayne Middaugh
Wayne Middaugh
Wayne Middaugh is a Canadian curler from Victoria Harbour, Ontario.Middaugh is a two-time world champion, once as second for Russ Howard in 1993 and as a skip in 1998. He has participated and won in seven and participated in 11 Briers- in 1991, 1992, 1993, and 1994 as Russ Howard's second and in...

 
Jon Mead
Jon Mead
Jonathan Mead is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Mead played third for Wayne Middaugh's rink until the end of the 2009-10 curling season...

 
John Epping
John Epping
John Epping is a Canadian curler from Toronto.Epping was a top junior curler, having won the Ontario Junior championship in 2004. At the 2004 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, his team finished with an 8-4 record, just out of the playoffs. He won the Canadian Mixed Curling Championship in 2006...

 
Scott Bailey
Scott Bailey (curler)
Scott Bailey is a Canadian curler from Brampton, Ontario. Since 2010, he plays third for John Epping. He is known however for being the long-time lead for Wayne Middaugh. It was with Middaugh that Bailey won the 1998 Ford World Curling Championships.Bailey has been a member of the Middaugh rink...

 
  Islington
Chris Schille  Jeff Erickson  Reid Carruthers
Reid Carruthers
Reid Carruthers is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. He currently plays second on the Jeff Stoughton rink. Carruthers is a former junior provincial champion in 2003 and a Manitoba provincial mixed champion in 2008, both as a skip...

 
D. J. Kidby    Edmonton
Edmonton
Edmonton is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta and is the province's second-largest city. Edmonton is located on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Capital Region, which is surrounded by the central region of the province.The city and its census...

John Shuster
John Shuster
John Shuster is an American curler and Olympic medalist from Chisholm, Minnesota. He received a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin...

 
Jason Smith
Jason Smith (curler)
Jason Smith is an American curler from Cape Coral, Florida.He was formerly the third, , of John Shuster's team. His other teammates were Jeff Isaacson and John Benton . As a member of this team, he won the 2009 U.S...

 
Jeff Isaacson
Jeff Isaacson
Jeff Isaacson is an internationally elite curler from the United States. He graduated in 2001 from Mesabi East High School in Aurora, Minnesota....

 
John Benton
John Benton (curler)
John Benton is an American curler from St. Michael, Minnesota. He started curling in 1975 and made his first US Junior National Championships in 1987. In 1998 he qualified for his first Olympic Trials where he was placed fifth...

 
  Duluth
Duluth
Duluth may refer to:*Duluth, Minnesota*Duluth, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta*Duluth , an album by Trampled by Turtles*Duluth , by Gore Vidal...

Pat Simmons
Pat Simmons (curler)
Pat Simmons is a Canadian curler. Simmons has skipped team Saskatchewan in four straight Briers from 2005 to 2008.Simmons made it to his first Brier in 2005 after winning his first provincial championship...

 
Gerry Adam  Jeff Sharp  Steve Laycock
Steve Laycock
Steve Laycock is a Canadian curler from Saskatoon. He currently skips his team out of the Tartan Curling Club in Regina....

 
  Davidson
Davidson, Saskatchewan
Davidson is a town in south central Saskatchewan, Canada. It is located 104 km southeast of Saskatoon beside provincial highway 11. It is located almost exactly halfway between Saskatoon and Regina and was a popular stopping-off point for travellers before Hwy...

Jeff Stoughton
Jeff Stoughton
Jeff Stoughton is a Canadian curler. Stoughton is a three-time Brier champion and two-time World champion as skip.-Career:...

 
Kevin Park
Kevin Park
Kevin Park is a Canadian curler from Edmonton, Alberta.-Early career:Park was a two time provincial junior champion in his native Alberta, winning in 1983 and 1984....

 
Rob Fowler
Rob Fowler
For the curler, see Rob Fowler Rob Fowler is a meteorologist in the South Carolina Lowcountry, and chief meteorologist for WCBD-TV. Fowler is married with three children: Trey,Kylie,and Tate.- Meteorologist with WCBD :...

 
Steve Gould
Steve Gould (curler)
Steve Gould is a Canadian curler from Headingley, Manitoba. He currently plays lead for Jeff Stoughton....

 
  Winnipeg
Winnipeg
Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of Manitoba, Canada, and is the primary municipality of the Winnipeg Capital Region, with more than half of Manitoba's population. It is located near the longitudinal centre of North America, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers .The name...

Thomas Ulsrud
Thomas Ulsrud
Thomas Ulsrud is a Norwegian curler.Ulsrud has curled professionally since 1983. In his second World Junior Curling Championship in 1988, Ulsrud skipped Norway to a bronze medal....

 
Torger Nergård
Torger Nergård
Torger Nergård is a Norwegian curler.Nergård has curled professionally since 1987 and currently plays third for Team Thomas Ulsrud. At Junior level, he played third at the 1991 and 1992 World Junior Curling Championships for Thomas Due, and skipped his own team in 1996...

 
Christoffer Svae
Christoffer Svae
Christoffer Svae is a Norwegian curler who currently plays second for Team Thomas Ulsrud.At Junior level, Svae played second for Team Thomas Løvold and won gold medals at the 2002 and 2003 World Junior Curling Championships "B" tournaments.Svae formally joined Team Ulsrud in 2007 having played...

 
Håvard Vad Petersson    Oslo
Oslo
Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

Jim Cotter  Bob Ursel
Bob Ursel
Bob "Bobby" Ursel is a Canadian curler who curls out of Kelowna, British Columbia.In 1984, Ursel skipped his native Manitoba to a Canadian Junior Curling Championship...

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Kevin Folk
Kevin Folk
Kevin Folk is a Canadian curler from Kelowna, British Columbia. He plays second for Jim Cotter.Folk won the 2000 Canadian Junior Curling Championships playing third for Brad Kuhn...

 
Rick Sawatsky   Kelowna
Kelowna
Kelowna is a city on Okanagan Lake in the Okanagan Valley, in the southern interior of British Columbia, Canada. Its name derives from a Okanagan language term for "grizzly bear"...


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Draws

Group A W L
  Howard 5 0
  McEwen 3 2
  Stoughton 3 2
  Simmons 2 3
  Matchett 1 4
  Shuster 1 4
Group B W L
  Martin 5 0
  Middaugh 4 1
  Ursel 3 2
  Ménard 2 3
  Gushue 1 4
  Schille 0 5
Group C W L
  Ulsrud 4 1
  Ferbey 3 2
  Appelman 2 3
  Burtnyk 2 3
  Gunnlaugson 2 3
  Koe 2 3

Playoffs

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