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<\/p>\nDunstone, who is representing Canada for the first time at the world championship, rebounded after back-to-back lopsided losses to Scotland and the United States.<\/p>\n
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His team had opened strongly with wins over South Korea and Italy on Friday.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not far off,\u201d Dunstone said after the morning win. \u201cWe didn\u2019t have to reinvent the wheel with what we were doing. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe game (against the U.S.), we struggled without question. The (game against Scotland), we felt like we played fairly well. We\u2019ve been drawing well the entire time; just a little bit off with hits and being precise on the hit-and-rolls and shot management overall.\u201d<\/p>\n
Poland scored a deuce in the fourth end to tie the score at 2-2 and was shooting 97 per cent at that point. <\/p>\n
\u201c(There was a) \u2018here we go\u2019 kind of feeling for sure,\u201d said Dunstone. \u201cI mean, you can\u2019t expect people to miss shots; everybody\u2019s here for a reason.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe showed exactly that on those two shots \u2014 world-class draws, and I couldn\u2019t match him. But overall, we leaned heavy on them and eventually got misses.\u201d<\/p>\n
The misses started in the fifth end, when Stych wrecked on a guard with his last shot as Canada scored two. His misses on his last shots in the sixth and seventh ends led to the big Canada steals.<\/p>\n
Against Japan, Canada went down 1-0 in the first end, scored two in the second and surrendered one in the third. Dunstone scored one in the fifth to lead 3-2 at the break. After Japan tied the game 3-3 in the sixth, Canada pounced on some mistakes to score four in the seventh and never looked back.<\/p>\n
Canada plays China and unbeaten Sweden on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Sweden, skipped by seven-time world champion Niklas Edin, improved to 7-0 with a 9-4 win over Norway in the evening draw. Switzerland, which edged Germany 7-6 Monday night is second at 6-1. Canada and Scotland are 4-2, Germany and Italy are 4-3, and China and the host U.S. are 3-3.<\/p>\n
Czechia is ninth at 2-4, Japan and South Korea are both 2-5, Poland is 1-5 and Norway is winless at 0-6.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 30, 2026.<\/p>\n
The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dunstone, who is representing Canada for the first time at the world championship, rebounded after back-to-back lopsided losses…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-572436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572436","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=572436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}