For the first time all week, the hometown hero Brad Gushue had the fans worried until the last stone.
Gushue did eventually lower the heart rates of the crowd with a 9-8 win in an extra end over Nova Scotia’s Kendal Thompson at the Montana’s Brier in St. John’s, improving his record to 5-0.
But the six-time Brier champion was nervous that his team almost let the game slip away after Thompson had control for most of the match.
“Oh my god [laughs], yeah, it was always in doubt. That was a scary game. We weren’t very sharp today,” Gushue said in his post-game interview. “We’re fortunate to win that one. We got very lucky with that miss in the ninth end and scary 10th end, scary 11th end. Yeah, pretty stressful…