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It’s quite the quick turnaround for a handful of the teams just finished up at the men’s curling worlds. Back on the ice at the 2025 AMJ Players’ Championship, the final event — and crown jewel — of the Grand Slam of Curling calendar, only hours after challenging for global supremacy. Included is Scotland’s Bruce
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It’s quite the quick turnaround for a handful of the teams just finished up at the men’s curling worlds.
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Back on the ice at the 2025 AMJ Players’ Championship, the final event — and crown jewel — of the Grand Slam of Curling calendar, only hours after challenging for global supremacy.
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Included is Scotland’s Bruce Mouat, the mighty victor of the 2025 BKT World Men’s Curling Championship after Sunday’s thrilling 5-4 edge of Switzerland’s Yannick Schwaller in the finale in Moose Jaw, Sask.
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“We’re probably going to be hungover — I’m not going to lie,” said Mouat, moments after the final draw and looking ahead to another busy week after celebrating — of course — their triumph in Saskatchewan.
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“It’s going to be fun, regardless.”
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Mouat and the world kings — now two-time after also winning in 2023 — weren’t expecting just to be blurry-eyed for the Players’ Championship, either. They’re featured, as well, in Monday night’s Rio Mare Battle of the Sexes against Rachel Homan and her world champs in a unique curling adventure.
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That meant travelling early Monday morning — at 5-ish a.m., lamented the Scots — to get to Toronto for both events.
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“I did tweet (Homan), saying, ‘You better hope we’re hungover and tired,’” said Scotland lead Hammy McMillan Jr., with a grin.
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“So I think they have a chance now.”
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When it comes to the grand slam, all the worlds combatants have a chance get right after heartbreak at Moose Jaw’s Temple Gardens Centre.
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The reset at Toronto’s Mattamy Athletic Centre allows Canada’s Brad Jacobs and the others who fell short of the world title — Schwaller, USA’s Korey Dropkin, Italy’s Joël Retornaz and Germany’s Marc Muskatewitz — to end the 2024-25 curling season on a winning note.
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Same goes for those on the women’s side — Switzerland’s Silvana Tirinzoni, Sweden’s Anna Hasselborg, South Korea’s Kim Eun-jung and Japan’s Sayaka Yoshimura — who watched Homan raise the trophy a second straight season after the Ottawa team’s win in Uijeongbu, South Korea.
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“We’re going to — still — give it our all,” said world bronze-medallist Jacobs, who is out to win the Players’ Championship without second Brett Gallant and lead Ben Hebert.
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The star-studded front end returned to Calgary on Monday for different reasons — Hebert for work and family obligations, and Gallant to get ready with wife Joceyln Peterman to represent Canada at the 2025 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship — meaning Tyler Tardi and Connor Njegovan will step into the second and lead roles respectively with Team Jacobs.
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“We’ll try and make a bunch of shots,” added Jacobs.