A Great Curling Shot!

Glen Howard of Team Ontario made one the greatest curling shots that I've ever seen.

Last night, during the Canadian men's curling championship in his game against Saskatchewan, he ran a stone of his back onto another of his rocks, which then bounced that stone into a Saskatchewan rock and sent it out of play. In the meantime, the stone he threw (his 'shooter') was deflected at an angle into another Saskatchewan rock, sending it out of play. Howard went from two down in the last end to scoring three and winning the game! It was an incredible shot, and exactly as he called it.

Saskatchewan made the mistake of guarding a different runback, rather than putting another stone in the house for third shot. Mistake? How do you guard against such fantastic shotmaking?

Howard's shot ranks right up there with Al Hackner's double kill and save the shooter to win the 1985 World Championship, and Pat Ryan's triple kill lose the shooter to blank the sixth end in the 1991 Worlds against Norway. It was that good.

And non-curlers have absolutely no appreciation of it...indeed, they mock us curling fans. For shame!