Teams

Hometown: Winnipeg, MB

Twitter: @TeamMcEwen

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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.

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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

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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