Brett Gallant is getting talked up among Canada’s fab four at the 2025 BKT World Men’s Curling Championship. Read More
Talented second considered best of the bunch by rink-mates at 2025 BKT World Men’s Curling Championship Moose Jaw.
Talented second considered best of the bunch by rink-mates at 2025 BKT World Men’s Curling Championship Moose Jaw.
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Brett Gallant is getting talked up among Canada’s fab four at the 2025 BKT World Men’s Curling Championship.
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High praise is being thrown his way from his fellow curling brethren, who believe the youngest member of the crew from Calgary will eclipse the awards they’ve each received when his own career comes to an end.
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Makes sense, though, given Gallant’s a curling machine — proof positive by his handling of a hectic schedule over the last three months.
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There was a Canadian mixed doubles trials victory in January, giving him and wife Jocelyn Peterman the right to represent the nation — pending upcoming qualification — at the 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Milano-Cortina, Italy.
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To follow was a Grand Slam of Curling final appearance at the WFG Masters.
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Then came the ridiculous run at the Montana’s Brier.
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And just ahead of these worlds was now-Calgary couple Gallant and Peterman back at it in the mixed doubles nationals on his home land of Prince Edward Island.
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“He was the first guy to the rink on the Monday after mixed nationals when he was home,” said Canada team coach Paul Webster, of Canada’s talented second from Charlottetown, P.E.I. “He was home on Saturday, back practising on Monday.
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“I can tell you just from watching him in the drills that we do all the time, it looked like he hadn’t left.”
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Really, he hasn’t stopped, with the oh-so hectic schedule still at hand post-worlds — win or lose.
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Gallant and the rest of Team Jacobs head to the GSOC season-finale for next Tuesday morning’s start of the AMJ Players’ Championship in Toronto. That’s less than 48 hours after hoping to hoist the worlds trophy in Moose Jaw, Sask.
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And then, he’s back on the ice with Peterman to try to secure their Olympic berth at the April 26-May 3 world mixed doubles playdowns in Fredericton, N.B.
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“If you’re playing this late into the year, it certainly beats the alternative because all the events you really want to be playing in are at this time,” Gallant said. “So I’m pretty grateful to be being playing in them.”
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But isn’t he tired?
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Curling on fumes?
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Or is the Gallant machine just running strictly on adrenaline at this point? After all, Canada — which ran its record to 6-1 with Wednesday morning’s 8-3 win over Austria’s Magnus Ramsfjell (4-3) — is running smoothly it seems.