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2000 New Brunswick Labatt Tankard
2000 New Brunswick Labatt Tankard
Host city	Fredericton, New Brunswick
Arena	Capital Winter Club
Dates	February 2–6
Winner	Team Howard
Curling club	Beaver CC, Moncton
Skip	Russ Howard
Third	Wayne Tallon
Second	Rick Perron
Lead	Grant Odishaw
Finalist	Jim Sullivan
	« 1999 2001 »

The 2000 New Brunswick Labatt Tankard, the provincial men's curling championship for New Brunswick, was held from February 2 to 6 at the Capital Winter Club in Fredericton, New Brunswick.^[1] The winning Russ Howard rink represented New Brunswick at the 2000 Labatt Brier in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.^[2]

Teams

The teams are listed as follows:^[3]

Skip	Vice	Second	Lead	Alternate	Club
Wade Blanchard	Charlie Sullivan Jr.	Mark Dobson	Jeff Lacey		Thistle-St. Andrews CC, Saint John
Peter Case	Mike Dobson	Paul Dobson	Scott Nealis^[a]	Geoff Porter^[a]	Thistle-St. Andrews CC, Saint John
Russ Howard	Wayne Tallon	Rick Perron	Grant Odishaw		Beaver CC, Moncton
Mike Kennedy	Terry Odishaw	Marc Lecocq	Daryell Nowlan		Grand Falls CC, Grand Falls
Barry Lewis	Serge Denis	Andre Boudreau	Darrel Rice		Beaver CC, Moncton
Bryan MacPherson	Mark Armstrong	Joe Vautour	Brad MacPherson^[b]	Kevin Loughery^[b]	Riverside G&CC, Rothesay
David Nowlan	Brent Palmer	Jamie Brennan	Kevin Keefe		Capital WC, Fredericton
Jim Sullivan	Brian Dobson	Jason Vaughan	Dan Alderman		Thistle-St. Andrews CC, Saint John

Round robin standings

Final Round Robin standings

Key
	Teams to Playoffs
	Teams to Tiebreaker

Skip	W	L	W–L	PF	PA	EW	EL	BE	SE
Russ Howard	6	1	–	51	27	31	21	4	8
Jim Sullivan	5	2	–	40	33	25	24	2	5
Wade Blanchard	4	3	1–0	36	41	26	26	10	5
Mike Kennedy	4	3	0–1	46	44	28	30	3	3
Barry Lewis	3	4	–	41	40	27	27	10	6
Bryan MacPherson	2	5	2–0	43	51	26	31	2	4
Peter Case	2	5	1–1	37	48	24	27	7	3
David Nowlan	2	5	0–2	36	46	28	29	3	5

Round Robin results

All draw times listed in Atlantic Time (UTC−04:00).^[5]

Draw 1

Wednesday, February 2, 8:00 pm

Sheet 1	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Jim Sullivan	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	2	0	4
Peter Case 🔨	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	2	0	1	6

Sheet 2	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Bryan MacPherson	0	2	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	2	1	8
David Nowlan 🔨	1	0	2	0	0	1	0	2	1	0	0	7

Sheet 3	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Barry Lewis 🔨	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	6
Mike Kennedy	0	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	2	0	1	7

Sheet 4	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Russ Howard 🔨	2	1	0	4	1	0	2	X	X	X	10
Wade Blanchard	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	X	X	X	2

Draw 2

Thursday, February 3, 9:00 am

Sheet 1	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Barry Lewis	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	X	X	3
Russ Howard 🔨	0	2	1	0	1	3	0	1	X	X	8

Sheet 2	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Mike Kennedy	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	5
Wade Blanchard 🔨	1	0	1	0	1	0	3	0	1	2	9

Sheet 3	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Peter Case	0	2	0	1	0	2	1	2	X	X	8
David Nowlan 🔨	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	X	X	2

Sheet 4	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Bryan MacPherson	0	0	1	0	2	0	X	X	X	X	3
Jim Sullivan 🔨	1	2	0	3	0	4	X	X	X	X	10

Draw 3

Thursday, February 3, 2:30 pm

Sheet 1	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
David Nowlan	0	2	0	1	1	1	1	0	1	X	7
Mike Kennedy 🔨	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	X	4

Sheet 2	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Russ Howard	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	0	1	X	5
Jim Sullivan 🔨	1	0	3	0	1	0	1	1	0	X	7

Sheet 3	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Wade Blanchard	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	2	1	6
Bryan MacPherson 🔨	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	5

Sheet 4	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Peter Case	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	2	0	X	4
Barry Lewis 🔨	0	2	0	0	1	0	3	0	2	X	8

Draw 4

Friday, February 4, 9:00 am

Sheet 1	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Bryan MacPherson	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	X	6
Barry Lewis 🔨	0	1	1	1	0	1	1	0	3	X	8

Sheet 2	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Wade Blanchard	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	5
Peter Case 🔨	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	3

Sheet 3	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Jim Sullivan	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	X	X	2
Mike Kennedy 🔨	1	0	1	0	1	3	0	1	X	X	7

Sheet 4	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
David Nowlan	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	X	5
Russ Howard 🔨	2	0	2	0	2	0	2	0	1	X	9

Draw 5

Friday, February 4, 2:30 pm

Sheet 1	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Jim Sullivan	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	3	6
Wade Blanchard	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	2	0	5

Sheet 2	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Barry Lewis	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	X	5
David Nowlan	1	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	2	X	7

Sheet 3	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Russ Howard	0	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	1	6
Bryan MacPherson	1	0	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	0	5

Sheet 4	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Mike Kennedy	0	0	2	0	2	0	3	0	2	0	2	11
Peter Case	1	0	0	1	0	3	0	2	0	2	0	9

Draw 6

Friday, February 4, 8:00 pm

Sheet 1	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Peter Case	0	1	0	2	0	0	2	0	X	X	5
Bryan MacPherson 🔨	2	0	2	0	2	1	0	4	X	X	11

Sheet 2	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Mike Kennedy	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	X	3
Russ Howard 🔨	0	2	0	0	2	0	1	0	1	X	6

Sheet 3	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
David Nowlan	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	X	4
Jim Sullivan 🔨	1	0	0	2	2	0	0	2	0	X	7

Sheet 4	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Barry Lewis	1	0	0	2	0	2	1	0	2	X	8
Wade Blanchard 🔨	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	X	4

Draw 7

Saturday, February 5, 9:00 am

Sheet 1	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Wade Blanchard	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	5
David Nowlan 🔨	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	4

Sheet 2	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Jim Sullivan	0	1	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	X	4
Barry Lewis 🔨	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	X	3

Sheet 3	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Russ Howard	1	0	0	2	0	1	0	3	X	X	7
Peter Case 🔨	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	X	X	2

Sheet 4	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Bryan MacPherson	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	X	5
Mike Kennedy 🔨	1	0	2	0	2	1	0	0	3	X	9

Tiebreaker

Saturday February 5, 2:30 pm

Sheet 2	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Wade Blanchard	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2
Mike Kennedy 🔨	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	4

Playoffs

Semifinal			Final

			1	Russ Howard	8
2	Jim Sullivan	6	2	Jim Sullivan	4
3	Mike Kennedy	2

Semifinal

Saturday, February 5, 8:00 pm

Sheet 4	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Jim Sullivan 🔨	0	2	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	X	6
Mike Kennedy	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	X	2

Final

Sunday, February 6, 2:30 pm

Sheet 3	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Russ Howard 🔨	2	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	2	X	8
Jim Sullivan	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	X	4

2000 New Brunswick Labatt Tankard
Russ Howard 2nd New Brunswick Provincial Championship title

Notes

1 2 Team Case alternate Geoff Porter threw lead stones in Draws 4 and 5.^[4]
1 2 Team MacPherson alternate Kevin Loughery threw lead stones in Draws 1 and 6.^[4]

References

↑ "Home". Labatt Tankard Final 8 - Round Robin & Playoffs. New Brunswick Curling Association. Archived from the original on June 8, 2000. Retrieved 26 February 2026.
↑ "Sullivan rinks falls short". Saint John Times Globe. February 7, 2000. p. 41. Retrieved May 18, 2025.
↑ "Team List of Qualifiers for Final 8". Labatt Tankard Playdowns. Archived from the original on June 8, 2000. Retrieved 26 February 2026.
1 2 "Draw 7". Labatt Tankard Playdowns. New Brunswick Curling Association. Archived from the original on September 20, 2000. Retrieved 26 February 2026.
↑ "Schedule". Labatt Tankard Playdowns. New Brunswick Curling Association. Archived from the original on June 8, 2000. Retrieved 26 February 2026.

[case-5] 1 2 Team Case alternate Geoff Porter threw lead stones in Draws 4 and 5.^[4]

[macpherson-6] 1 2 Team MacPherson alternate Kevin Loughery threw lead stones in Draws 1 and 6.^[4]

[1] "Home". Labatt Tankard Final 8 - Round Robin & Playoffs. New Brunswick Curling Association. Archived from the original on June 8, 2000. Retrieved 26 February 2026.

[2] "Sullivan rinks falls short". Saint John Times Globe. February 7, 2000. p. 41. Retrieved May 18, 2025.

[3] "Team List of Qualifiers for Final 8". Labatt Tankard Playdowns. Archived from the original on June 8, 2000. Retrieved 26 February 2026.

[Draw7-4] 1 2 "Draw 7". Labatt Tankard Playdowns. New Brunswick Curling Association. Archived from the original on September 20, 2000. Retrieved 26 February 2026.

[7] "Schedule". Labatt Tankard Playdowns. New Brunswick Curling Association. Archived from the original on June 8, 2000. Retrieved 26 February 2026.

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