2006 Home Hardware Masters of Curling | |
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Host city | Waterloo, Ontario |
Arena | Waterloo Memorial Recreation Complex |
Dates | November 29 – December 3 |
Winner | Glenn Howard |
Curling club | Coldwater & District CC, Coldwater |
Skip | Glenn Howard |
Third | Richard Hart |
Second | Brent Laing |
Lead | Craig Savill |
Finalist | Randy Ferbey |
The 2006 Home Hardware Masters of Curling was held from November 29 to December 3, 2006 at the Waterloo Memorial Recreation Complex in Waterloo, Ontario. The event is not to be confused with the February event that happened in the same year but in the previous season.
Glenn Howard's rink won their first of four straight Masters tournaments, defeating Randy Ferbey's rink in the final with a score of 5–4.
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Teams to Playoffs | |
Teams to Tiebreaker |
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Tie breakers:
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||||||
Base | 7 | |||||||||||||
Walchuk | 4 | |||||||||||||
Base | 1 | |||||||||||||
Howard | 8 | |||||||||||||
Howard | 5 | |||||||||||||
Simmons | 2 | |||||||||||||
Howard | 5 | |||||||||||||
Ferbey | 4 | |||||||||||||
Ferbey | 7 | |||||||||||||
Middaugh | 6 | |||||||||||||
Ferbey | 8 | |||||||||||||
Martin | 5 | |||||||||||||
Martin | 6 | |||||||||||||
Koe | 4 |
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