From the Hack

In Part 2 of our preview of the 2020 Tim Hortons Brier - Steve Laycock of Team BC (01:46), Darren Moulding of Team Alberta (09:18), Ben Hebert of Team Canada (20:09) and John Epping of Team Ontario (32:49).

In Part 1 of our 2020 Tim Hortons Brier Preview we chat with Colin Hodgson of Team McEwen who will face Team Howard in the Wild Card game (01:52), Matt Dunstone of Team Saskatchewan (13:25), Geoff Walker of Newfoundland & Labrador (22:31) and Jason Gunnlaugson of Team Manitoba (31:47)

In this abbreviated edition of the From the Hack podcast we welcome 2020 Scotties champion skip, Kerri Einarson. We discuss the 1 vs 2 against Jennifer Jones, we discuss the key moments of the championship final against Team Homan and we look ahead to the World Championships in Prince George, BC.

While most of the Canadian curling community will be focused on Moose Jaw and the 2020 Scotties next week, two teams from Manitoba will be half a world away representing Canada at the 2020 World Junior Championships. Hear more from some of the players that will be wearing the Maple in Lead in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. - Karlee Burgess (02:17). Mackenzie Zacharias (11:58) and Jacques Gauthier (18:30).

In Part 2 of our 2020 Scotties Preview - Sarah Wilkes of Team Canada joins us to discuss what has been a year filled with ups and downs for Team Carey since they won the 2019 Scotties in Sydney, Nova Scotia (02:42)... Kendra Lilly was the subject of many rumoured new lineups at the end of the last Olympic cycle but she stayed in Northern Ontario with Team McCarville who have qualified for the playoffs in their last three Scotties appearances (10:47)... Lori Eddy might be best known as the co-host of the "2 Girls and a Game" podcast but she also has game. Eddy will skip Nunavut at the 2020 Scotties, 23 years after reaching the final in her only previous Scotties appearance (21:40)... Laura Walker almost didn't play this season but now, she's headed to her first Scotties as skip of Team Alberta (30:59)... Noémie Verreault and her team have been playing across Québec in relative obscurity for several years but their patience has paid off, they are headed to their first Scotties in Moose Jaw (37:23).

In Part 1 of our 2020 Scotties Preview - Robyn Silvernagle who will skip the home team in Saskatchewan (02:11)… Mary-Anne Arsenault of Nova Scotia who reached the semi-final in her last appearance at the Scotties in 2018 (06:59) … Corryn Brown of BC who is headed to her first Scotties accompanied by a teammate she's played with since they were 6 years old (13:31)… Jo-Ann Rizzo, an accomplished curler who will play in her first Scotties as the 2nd for Team Galusha out of the Northwest Territories (21:45)... Kerri Einarson who won the Manitoba Scotties with a clutch draw to steal the provincial final (28:59)

With the 2020 Scotties Wild Card game set for this Friday, FTH caught up with Casey Scheidegger whose team won last season's Wild Card game in Sydney, Nova Scotia. We talk about her team's adventure in simply making it to Sydney, we discuss how the team prepared for a one-off elimination game and we also discuss Wild Card teams seem to do very well in the round-robin.

This is an interview I did with Mike McEwen prior to the 2017 Olympic Trials. I referred to it as my favourite FTH interview in a tweet recently and I thought I would post it here for those that are interested.

It's time for our favourite episode each year where we interview some of the best junior curlers in the world this season, the skips of the teams that won the Canadian and U.S. Junior Championships. - Luc Violette (02:59), Delaney Strouse (13:03), Mackenzie Zacharias (18:30) and Jacques Gauthier (25:10).