Vice-skip Darren Moulding has left the curling rink led by Brendan Bottcher.
Team Bottcher announced the lineup change on Friday night in a statement posted to Twitter.
The rink said that Moulding is taking time away from curling for personal reasons and that it would announce a new player at a later date.
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Moulding disputed the statement in his own tweet saying “‘Personal Reasons’ lol? that’s a head scratcher?. Might have ask whose “personal reasons” those are.”
He added hashtags saying “Don’t believe it” and “lies” to the tweet.
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Bottcher’s statement said that the new player would play with the rink for the rest of the season, including defending the Tim Hortons Brier title.