Firefighters update

I wrote a blog earlier about the Canadian Firefighters Curling Championship and its rich history. The 50th edition of the championship is now well underway. I had noted in that blog that Johnny Mo himself won the Alberta crown as skip but seeing as he has to be in Moncton for the World Curling Championships starting this weekend, Johnny Mo is a little busy. So, I found it neat to discover that with Morris out the Alberta team has found a pretty solid ringer as a replacement. Jim Henderson, who I wrote about in that blog, is replacing Morris at skip. That's a pretty impressive replacement considering the fact that Henderson has the second most firefighter titles to his name, eight, behind only Southern Ontario's Neil Harrison who has 10. However, Henderson is the all-time leader for wins as a skip, since seven of his eight has come as a skip and Harrison only won six as skip. Henderson most recent crown was in 2005.
At this point, however, Henderson may be hard-pressed to make it nine since his Alberta rink is mid-table with just a handful of games left.