When they were just pups

Time to take a trip back in time 13 years to the other big city in Alberta — Edmonton.
In 1996, 13 teams gathered in the Alberta to vie for the Maple Leaf junior men’s curling championship.
The reason this championship is notable, is due to the fact that five of the 13 skips at that championship were in Edmonton for the junior championships.
In that event, Ryan Fry skipped Manitoba, Brad Gushue skipped Newfoundland, Jamie Koe skipped N.W.T., Jean-Michel Menard skipped Quebec and Joel Jordison skipped Saskatchewan. This week, all but Fry were at the Brier skipping their respective provinces. Fry was at the Brier playing second/vice for Gushue’s Newfoundland rink.
Of the five teams, Fry was tops at 9-3 and the only one to make the playoffs. Koe was tied for fourth at 7-5, and Gushue, Jordison and Menard tied each other for ninth at 5-7.
Fry was crushed in the final by Northern Ontario’s Jeff Currie 8-3.