HearingLife Canadian Open 2025: How to watch every games online
Best way to catch shhots of the Canadian Open curling from anywhere
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David Mikes
12/17/20254 min read
Just one week before Christmas, so many teams are looking to earn themselves an early present in the fourth Grand Slam of Curling event of the 2025-26 season, the HearingLife Canadian Open in Saskatoon, Sask.
However, it will be tough to take the field against Rachel Homan or Silvana Tirinzoni on the women’s side, and Matt Dunstone or Bruce Mouat on the men’s side, considering they’ve combined to make up five of the six finalist spots in this year's first three events.
What you need to know
Extra ends are back, kind of.
The Grand Slam of Curling competition committee is listening to the curlers' request and bringing back extra ends, however, they’re only for tiebreakers and playoff games.
For round-robin games, if there is a tie after eight ends, the two teams will partake in a shootout to determine the winner.
Playing an extra end was always the standard procedure to break a tie until this year in the Grand Slam of Curling. At the first Slam event of the season, the AMJ Masters, the style being used for the HearingLife Canadian Open was applied, but for the following two Slam tournaments, the CO-OP Tour Challenge and the KIOTI GSOC Tahoe, extra ends were completely eliminated.
This led to exciting finishes, including Bruce Mouat earning his 12th Grand Slam title, beating Dunstone in a shootout by three millimetres.
WEDNESDAY'S SCHEDULE/RESULTS
Draw 5: 9:30 a.m. ET / 8:30 a.m. CT
• Y. Schwaller vs. Whyte: Watch Live
• Ha vs. Kim: Watch Live
• Hasselborg vs. Yoshimura: Watch Live
• McEwen vs. Muskatewitz: Watch Live
Draw 6: 1 p.m. ET / 12 p.m. CT
• Mouat vs. Kleiter: Watch Live
• X. Schwaller vs. Constantini: Watch Live
• Gim vs. Morrison: Watch Live
• Jacobs vs. Epping: Watch Live
Draw 7: 5 p.m. ET / 4 p.m. CT
• Casper vs. Waddell: Watch Live
• Homan vs. Kitazawa: Watch Live
• Tirinzoni vs. Kang: Watch Live
• Dunstone vs. Retornaz: Watch Live
Draw 8: 9 p.m. ET / 8 p.m. CT
• Edin vs. Hösli: Watch Live
• Einarson vs. Wang: Watch Live
• Tabata vs. Fujisawa: Watch Live
• Shuster vs. Gushue: Watch Live
Teams to watch during the week
There are so many interesting teams with great storylines heading into the week, such as how Homan and Brad Jacobs look after winning the Canadian Curling Trials and earning an Olympic berth last month. What about Brad Gushue, who is continuing his retirement tour and will always create buzz no matter where he is?
There's no shortage of intrigue at this week's event, but here is one team you should be watching on both the women’s and men’s sides and why:
Xenia Schwaller, Switzerland
Schwaller has been one of the most impressive teams on the Grand Slam of Curling tour this season. For such a young team, they’ve improved against the world's best each tournament. They’ve made the playoffs in all three events so far this season, including making the semifinals in the last two, but each time she has bowed out to her fellow countrywoman, Tirinzoni.
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However, the games keep getting closer. Schwaller lost by a score of 6-4 in the KIOTI GSOC Tahoe.
Schwaller has now climbed the world rankings to No. 4, and with just over a month since the last Slam event, it will be interesting to see if they can continue to improve and maybe finally break through against Tirinzoni.
Matt Dunstone, Canada
Dunstone was, without a doubt, the best Canadian team heading into the Canadian Curling Trials based on his impressive play leading up to it. Dunstone won the first Slam event of the year, and made the final in all three Slams this season.
His biggest competition heading into the trials, Jacobs, couldn’t beat him no matter what. Dunstone beat him twice in Slam semifinals and also the PointsBet final.
The trials proved to be a different beast, though, as Jacobs beat him in the round robin and in the best-of-three finals, sweeping Dunstone 2-0.
The result was heartbreaking for Dunstone, but now, being a couple weeks removed from that huge event, Dunstone is the team to watch at the HearingLife Canadian Open, as it will be interesting to see how his team responds.
The slam also showcases a Tier 2 event of 16 teams, comprised of the next-best 13 teams based on the World Curling team rankings as of Nov. 11 and three more being sponsors’ exemptions.
Women
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Defending champion: Rachel Homan
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Tier 1: Shootout Division
Wang Rui, China
Kang Bo-bae, Korea
Sayaka Yoshimura, Japan
Stefania Constantini, Italy
Kerri Einarson, Gimli, Man.
Satsuki Fujisawa, Japan
Gim Eun-ji, Korea
Anna Hasselborg, Sweden
Rachel Homan, Ottawa
Kim Seung-youn, Korea
Rebecca Morrison, Scotland
Silvana Tirinzoni, Switzerland
Xenia Schwaller, Switzerland
Ha Seung-young, Korea
Ikue Kitazawa, Japan
Momoha Tabata, Japan
Men
Defending champion: Bruce Mouat
Tier 1: Shootout Division
Matt Dunstone, Winnipeg
Niklas Edin, Sweden
Danny Casper, USA
Marco Hösli, Switzerland
Rylan Kleiter, Saskatoon
Brad Gushue, St. John’s, N.L.
Marc Muskatewitz, Germany
Brad Jacobs, Calgary
Kyle Waddell, Scotland
Mike McEwen, Saskatoon
Bruce Mouat, Scotland
Joël Retornaz, Italy
John Shuster, USA
Yannick Schwaller, Switzerland
Ross Whyte, Scotland
John Epping, Sudbury, Ont.
Games circled on the schedule
There are so many games each day that will deliver great curling, but to keep the list short, here are five games to circle on your calendar, along with one point as to why it’s a must-see event.
Draw 4 - Dec. 16 at 7:30 p.m. ET / 4:30 p.m. PT
Rachel Homan vs. Stefania Constantini
Constantini is the only team to beat Homan at the Grand Slam of Curling this season.
Draw 5 - Dec. 17 at 5 p.m. ET / 2 p.m. PT
Matt Dunstone vs. Joel Retornaz
Both teams have sweepers that can manipulate the rock however they want, creating an exciting, yet strategic battle.
Draw 12 - Dec. 18 at 9 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. PT
Brad Jacobs vs. Brad Gushue
Gushue’s Olympic dreams came to an end at the hands of Jacobs at the Canadian Curling Trials last month.
Draw 15 - Dec. 19 at 5 p.m. ET / 2 p.m. PT
Rachel Homan vs. Kerri Einarson
The best two Canadian women's teams in the world always have a heated battle.
Draw 16 - Dec. 19 at 9 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. PT
Bruce Mouat vs. Kyle Waddell
World No. 1 Mouat faces one of the up-and-coming bright fellow countrymen in Waddell.
The HearingLife Canadian Open will be available exclusively on Sportsnet+ starting Dec. 16 at 9 a.m. ET / 6 a.m. PT with Draw 1 through Draw 10. Starting with Draw 10 on Dec. 18 at 1 p.m. ET / 10 a.m. PT, the games will be available on both Sportsnet and Sportsnet+ through the finals on Sunday, Dec. 21.