"Brad Gushue"

/ Third = Mark Nichols (curler)/Mark Nichols

/ Second = Brett Gallant

/ Lead = Geoff Walker (curler)/Geoff Walker

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/ Brier appearances = 12 (2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)

/ Top CCA ranking = 4th (2008–09)

/ Grand Slam victories = 3: The National (curling)/The National (2010), Masters of Curling/Masters (2014), Canadian Open of Curling/Canadian Open (2014)

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"Bradley Raymond "Brad" Gushue", Order of Newfoundland and Labrador/ONL (born June 16, 1980) is a Canadian curler from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. Gushue, along with teammates Russ Howard, Mark Nichols (curler)/Mark Nichols, Jamie Korab and Mike Adam, represented Canada in curling at the 2006 Winter Olympics, where they Curling at the 2006 Winter Olympics#Gold medal game - Friday, February 24, 1730/won the gold medal by defeating Finland 10–4, including a dramatic 6-point sixth end in the final match (even though he missed a draw for 7-points), which was conceded after the 8-end minimum stipulated under Olympic rules.

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That was our best game since the Olympic trials in December. Everyone's shot-making was up to par.

He is our team mate and friend. We look up to him but he isn't an icon.

I feel much better today than I was feeling in the last couple of days. It is nice knowing we are in the playoffs now. If we have two good games now, from here on in, we achieve our goal.

For the first five ends, he did a real good job putting pressure on us. Pete did a good job keeping them in the game.

I don't like the reputation that the sport is all partying, and that you don't have to be athletic. Sure, there are some guys who like to party and others who aren't in great shape, but that shouldn't take away from the sport.

I'm not too worried about the last two (Olympic failures), because we're not the same team, other than the fact it was Canada. It's four different individuals on the ice. So I'm not worried about the past.

We've been starting slowly, I don't know what explains it. We did the same thing against Germany and Switzerland. We have to talk about it. We have to do something.

Now we have a medal, but we don't have the one we want. We're still going for the one we want.

We're all pretty confident. The COC and all the sport associations have really stepped up to the plate with some extra funding, and I think we're going to have a good performance.