Team McEwen
Hometown: Winnipeg, MB
Twitter: @TeamMcEwen
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Mike McEwen
Birthdate: July 30, 1980
Birthplace: Brandon, MB
Resides: Winnipeg, MB
- Three-time Manitoba provincial champion (2016, 2017 & 2019)
- Two-time Masters champion (2010 & 2015)
- National champion (2014)
- Two-time Canadian Open champion (Jan. 2011 & Dec. 2011)
- Two-time Elite 10 champion (2015 & 2018)
- Canada Cup champion (2014)
- Winter Universiade gold medallist (2003)
Third

Reid Carruthers
Birthdate: Dec. 30, 1984
Birthplace: Winnipeg, MB
Resides: Winnipeg, MB
- World champion (2011)
- Brier champion (2011)
- Six-time Manitoba champion (2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018 & 2019)
- Champions Cup winner (2016)
- National champion (2013)
- Two-time Canada Cup champion (2012 & 2016)
- World mixed doubles silver medallist (2017)
- Canadian mixed doubles champion (2017)
Second

Derek Samagalski
Birthdate: Sept. 9, 1984
Birthplace: Winnipeg, MB
Resides: Brandon, MB
- Four-time Manitoba champion (2012, 2015, 2018 & 2019)
- Champions Cup winner (2016)
- Canada Cup champion (2016)
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Colin Hodgson
Birthdate: June 8, 1990
Birthplace: Edmonton, AB
Resides: Winnipeg, MB
- Three-time Manitoba provincial champion (2015, 2018 & 2019)
- Champions Cup winner (2016)
- Canada Cup champion (2016)
- Canada Winter Games gold medallist (2007)
Team Bio
Reid Carruthers returned to skipping his own squad in 2014 after four successful seasons playing front end on Jeff Stoughton’s team winning Brier and world titles in 2011.
Carruthers reunited with Derek Samagalski — having played together previously in 2005-06 and from 2008-10 — and added a pair of new members from two different provinces: Saskatchewan’s Braeden Moskowy and Alberta’s Colin Hodgson. The all-new Team Carruthers won the Manitoba provincial title in its first season together defeating Team McEwen in the Safeway Championship final to advance to the 2015 Tim Hortons Brier.
The 2015-16 campaign was a breakout season on the Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling circuit for Team Carruthers finishing runner-up at two events — the National and the Elite 10 — and capturing its first GSOC title together at the inaugural Humpty’s Champions Cup. For Moskowy, Samagalski, and Hodgson it was their first championship win ever in the series. Carruthers earned his first as a skip having also claimed the National in 2013 with Team Stoughton.
The Champions Cup title almost got away from them as Carruthers had a shot to win in the extra end, but hit and rolled out for a blank that resulted in a rare double extra end. The second time around Carruthers needed to make a trickier draw shot while facing three counters and his rock stopped just in time to defeat Team Epping.
Former “frenemy” Mike McEwen joined in 2018. McEwen won seven titles in the Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling during his tenure as a skip. Carruthers and McEwen experimented with various back-end combinations until settling with McEwen throwing last rocks and calling the game with Carruthers in a traditional vice skip role.
2019-20 Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling results
Masters
Round | Opponent | Result |
Round Robin | Bottcher | L 4-11 |
Round Robin | Edin | W 8-4 |
Round Robin | Gushue | L 3-8 |
Round Robin | Dunstone | L 4-5 |
KIOTI Tractor Tour Challenge (Tier 1)
Round | Opponent | Result |
Round Robin | Koe | L 4-7 |
Round Robin | Shuster | W 6-4 |
Round Robin | De Cruz | W 7-6 |
Round Robin | Mouat | L 5-8 |
Tiebreaker | Mouat | W 7-3 |
Quarterfinals | Bottcher | L 2-6 |
BOOST National
Stage | Opponent | Result |
Round Robin | Mouat | L 4-6 |
Round Robin | Howard | W 6-3 |
Round Robin | De Cruz | L 4-6 |
Round Robin | Epping | W 5-4 |
Tiebreaker | Paterson | W 7-4 |
Quarterfinals | Edin | L 2-5 |
Meridian Canadian Open
Stage | Opponent | Result |
Triple Knockout A | Schwaller | L 2-6 |
Triple Knockout B | Howard | W 8-3 |
Triple Knockout B | Mouat | W 6-5 |
Triple Knockout B | Koe | W 5-4 |
Quarterfinals | Dropkin | W 6-2 |
Semifinals | Jacobs | L 3-6 |
2018-19 Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling results
Princess Auto Elite 10
Round | Opponent | Result |
Round Robin | Jacobs | W 4-3 |
Round Robin | Paterson | W 5-2 |
Round Robin | Edin | W 3-2 |
Round Robin | Koe | W 2-1 |
Semifinals | Epping | W 3-2 |
Final | Gushue | L 1-2 |
Masters
Round | Opponent | Result |
Round Robin | Gunnlaugson | W 8-4 |
Round Robin | Shuster | W 5-4 |
Round Robin | Gushue | L 2-5 |
Round Robin | Dunstone | L 1-6 |
Tiebreaker | Murphy | L 4-5 |
Tour Challenge (Tier 1)
Round | Opponent | Result |
Round Robin | Shuster | L 5-7 |
Round Robin | De Cruz | L 3-8 |
Round Robin | Dunstone | W 5-2 |
Round Robin | Edin | L 3-4 |
Boost National
Round | Opponent | Result |
Round Robin | McDonald | W 8-4 |
Round Robin | Edin | L 4-5 |
Round Robin | Calvert | L 2-6 |
Round Robin | Jacobs | L 1-8 |
Meridian Canadian Open
Round | Opponent | Result |
Triple Knockout A | Bottcher | L 4-8 |
Triple Knockout B | Calvert | L 6-7 |
Triple Knockout C | Kleiter | W 5-3 |
Triple Knockout C | Epping | L 3-4 |
Players’ Championship
Round | Opponent | Result |
Round Robin | Paterson | W 6-3 |
Round Robin | Koe | L 6-7 |
Round Robin | Howard | W 4-2 |
Round Robin | Mouat | L 5-6 |
Round Robin | Edin | L 4-6 |
Tiebreaker 1 | Mouat | W 7-2 |
Tiebreaker 2 | De Cruz | L 4-7 |
Humpty’s Champions Cup
Round | Opponent | Result |
Round Robin | Mouat | L 3-5 |
Round Robin | Tardi | W 7-1 |
Round Robin | Dunstone | L 8-9 |
Round Robin | Bottcher | L 2-7 |