The End of the End of Everything by Dale Bailey

We had a lot of great years together and Peter (Prokopowich) and Bob (Scales) are great guys.”Īrmour’s masters rink had pretty good chemistry before their run to the 2005 championship, as they had crossed paths over the years in various bonspiels and leagues around Westman. “Kelly and I curled with each other from the early 2000s until just before COVID shut everything down.

“It’s really cool to be inducted with both teams,” Armour said. It will be a special evening for Armour - who was inducted into the Hall for his individual accolades in 2006 - as he was the third for Kelly Robertson’s 2011 Canadian senior men’s championship team that is also part of this year’s class. Gudz died in 2021 and Sabad is unable to attend. The team will be honoured on Sunday at the Victoria Inn during the Manitoba Curling Hall of Fame’s 2023 induction ceremony.Īrmour and Barr will there to accept the induction. So many people congratulated us after the final and it was great to shake hands with people that we knew instead of complete strangers if we had won some place else.” “It was definitely special though, especially since we had so many of our family and friends there. “We had played so many competitive games over the years that we kind of blocked all of that out. “I don’t think we felt any pressure being the home team or anything like that,” Armour said. In 2005, Armour and his teammates Frank Gudz, Don Barr and Ken Sabad were able to win a national title on home ice.Īfter capturing the Manitoba men’s masters crown earlier in the season, the Souris Curling Club squad captured the Canadian championship at the Riverview Curling Club in Brandon.ĭoug Armour of Souris delivers a shot in the seventh end of the 2005 Canadian masters men’s curling championship at the Riverview Curling Club. As the third for Mel Logan’s Souris team that reached the semifinal round at the 1982 Labatt Brier in Brandon, Doug Armour knows what it’s like to be the home rink for the national event.

The End of the End of Everything by Dale Bailey