{"id":545641,"date":"2026-03-19T00:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T00:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/545641\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T00:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T00:31:07","slug":"john-epping-bj-neufeld-to-lead-manitoba-based-rink-in-2026-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/545641\/","title":{"rendered":"John Epping, BJ Neufeld to lead Manitoba-based rink in 2026-27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">John Epping has found a new team, this time in Manitoba. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">After playing in Northern Ontario for the past two seasons with Jacob and Tanner Horgan, the 42-year-old is bringing lead Ian McMillan to the prairie province where he\u2019ll play with third B.J. Neufeld and second Ryan Wiebe. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We were feeling left out of the party\u2026 so here\u2019s our lineup! \ud83d\udcaa\ud83e\udd4c<\/p>\n<p>Excited to announce our lineup for the 2026-2027 season, now playing out of Manitoba: <\/p>\n<p>Skip: John Epping<br \/>Vice: BJ Neufeld<br \/>Second: Ryan Wiebe <br \/>Lead: Ian McMillan<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for more updates \ud83d\udc40 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RIzc5TKSGn\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/RIzc5TKSGn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Team Epping (@teamepping) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/teamepping\/status\/2034354498978693454?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/curling\/article\/curling-roster-tracker-following-the-latest-lineup-news-in-curling\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/curling\/article\/curling-roster-tracker-following-the-latest-lineup-news-in-curling\/\">Follow all the lineup news in curling with TSN\u2019s Roster Tracker.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Neufeld, 40, was cut by Team Matt Dunstone last season and linked up with fellow Manitoba curler Reid Carruthers in 2025-26, but they were unable to qualify for the Brier. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Winnipeg native won a Canadian championship with Team Kevin Koe in 2019, settling for silver at the World Men\u2019s Curling Championship that same season. Playing for Mike McEwen, Neufeld was a finalist at the 2017 Olympic Trials. He\u2019s competed in 10 Briers and is a seven-time Grand Slam champion. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Wiebe, 25, is also from Winnipeg and recently parted ways with Ontario\u2019s Team Sam Mooibroek. He made his lone Brier appearance in 2025. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Team Epping lost the Northern Ontario final this season and went 3-4 at the Canadian Curling Trials in November. Epping has been to four Briers with a bronze medal in 2018 being his best finish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">McMillan is a native of Dryden, Ont., but lives in Winnipeg. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Epping has found a new team, this time in Manitoba. After playing in Northern Ontario for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[712,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-545641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}