We now know the six teams at the 2026 Montana’s Brier. Joining Alberta’s Kevin Koe, Newfoundland’s Brad Gushue and Team Canada’s Brad Jacobs are Manitoba’s Braden Calvert, Manitoba’s Matt Dunstone and Ontario’s Jayden King.
Dunstone reached the playoffs on Thursday with a dominant 9-3 win over Northern Ontario’s Sandy MacEwan. Dunstone then clinched second place in Pool B with a 6-3 win over Saskatchewan’s Mike McEwen. With the wins, Dunstone improved to a record of seven wins and one loss. With the loss, McEwen is now at five wins and three losses and has been eliminated from the playoffs. McEwen had made the playoffs in each of the last four years.
Calvert made the playoffs after beating MacEwan 8-4 and the fact that Dunstone beat McEwen in the final draw. Calvert, McEwen and New Brunswick’s James Grattan all had identical records of five wins and three losses in Pool B, and all beat each other. However, it is Calvert who got through because he had the best result in the draw to the button throughout the tournament prior to the games.
King was playoff bound after a 9-4 win over Saskatchewan’s Kelly Knapp. King improved to five wins and three losses and had the same record as Quebec. King got the tiebreaker thanks to an 8-7 win over Quebec’s Jean-Michel Menard on Wednesday night.
There are two 1 versus 2 games in the championship round on Friday morning. They will feature Koe versus Jacobs and Dunstone versus Gushue. The winners will go to the 1-2 game in the page playoff, and the losers will face the third place teams in each pool (Calvert and King).
