Mike McEwen didn’t have a hint of frustration after his home side Ontario rink bowed out of the Brier Saturday afternoon.
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“You’ve got to put things in perspective,” the skip said after a 6-3 loss to Wild Card 1’s Brendan Bottcher in the Page 3-4 game. “We were in the grave before Christmas and pretty much wrote ourselves off and everybody else had us off. Here we are, final four in Canada. I’m really proud of how we turned this around.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
“We were entertaining,” McEwen, the 42-year-old Winnipegger said. “I loved the atmosphere and everything about it and just to arrive back in that after my departure for a few years feels really good.”Article content Down two in the seventh, McEwen settled for one after failing to stick an angle slash. He surrendered a steal of one in the ninth after missing a runback to fall three points back.
“Not disappointed,” he said. “We played a great game. A millimetre thicker or thinner, I make that crazy one to tie the game. Where I hit popped enough that it wasn’t for two. They put on a hitting clinic. Not often you see a team convert that many runs and doubles. I had one little tick on a chaser and that runner goes a little differently, it’s a tie game.
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