HearingLife Canadian Open 2025: How to watch every games online

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

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.

Women's Final: Sunday, Dec. 21, 11 a.m. CT (Merlis Belsher Place)

• Lawes vs. Reese-Hansen

WATCH: 2025 Canadian Open Women's Final

Men's Final: Sunday, Dec. 21, 3:30 p.m. CT (Merlis Belsher Place)

• Ramsfjell vs. Brunner

WATCH: 2025 Canadian Open Men's Final

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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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

Defending champion: Rachel Homan

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

SCHEDULE/RESULTS

Draw 1: Tuesday, Dec. 16, 8 a.m. CT

• Brown 8, Black 7 (shootout)
• Gray-Withers 8, Thevenot 5
• Dropkin 8, Kalthoff 7
• Mooibroek 9, Derksen 1

Draw 2: Tuesday, Dec. 16, 12 p.m. CT

• Ueno 8, Reese-Hansen 4
• Park 9, Dupont 4
• Colli 8, Klima 5
• Kean 9, Yamaguchi 4

Draw 3: Tuesday, Dec. 16, 4:30 p.m. CT

• Wranå 10, Bauldic 4
• MacMillan 6, Martin 5 (shootout)
• Ramsfjell 8, Koe 0
• Xu 5, Maeda 3

Draw 4: Tuesday, Dec. 16, 8:30 p.m. CT

• Cameron 6, Duncan 5
• Lawes 7, Skrlik 4
• Brunner 7, Carruthers 4
• Knapp 5, McDonald 3

Draw 5: Wednesday, Dec. 17, 8 a.m. CT

• Park 7, Martin 5
• Ramsfjell 7, Colli 5
• Mooibroek 8, Xu 3
• Wranå 6, Ueno 3

Draw 6: Wednesday, Dec. 17, 12 p.m. CT

• Skrlik 8, Gray-Withers 4
• Brunner 6, Dropkin 5
• Maeda 9, Derksen 3
• Brown 7, Duncan 2

Draw 7: Wednesday, Dec. 17, 4:30 p.m. CT

• Thevenot 7, Lawes 2
• Klima 9, Koe 7
• Yamaguchi 8, Knapp 4
• Reese-Hansen 7, Bauldic 2

Draw 8: Wednesday, Dec. 17, 8:30 p.m. CT

• Dupont 8, MacMillan 0
• Carruthers 11, Kalthoff 4
• McDonald 8, Kean 1
• Black 6, Cameron 3

Draw 9: Thursday, Dec. 18, 8 a.m. CT

• Klima 6, Brunner 4
• Knapp 8, Xu 6
• Duncan 6, Reese-Hansen 5 (shootout)
• Skrlik 5, Thevenot 4

Draw 10: Thursday, Dec. 18, 12 p.m. CT

• Ramsfjell 8, Kalthoff 1
• Yamaguchi 7, Derksen 4
• Brown 7, Bauldic 1
• Dupont 10, Martin 3

Draw 11: Thursday, Dec. 18, 4:30 p.m. CT

• Carruthers 5, Colli 3
• Maeda 6, McDonald 4
• Cameron 6, Ueno 5
• Park 7, MacMillan 4

Draw 12: Thursday, Dec. 18, 8:30 p.m. CT

• Koe 6, Dropkin 5
• Kean 9, Mooibroek 2
• Wranå 7, Black 3
• Gray-Withers 6, Lawes 5 (shootout)

Draw 13: Friday, Dec. 19, 8 a.m. CT

• McDonald 7, Yamaguchi 5
• Bauldic 7, Ueno 6
• MacMillan 7, Skrlik 6
• Klima 6, Ramsfjell 3

Draw 14: Friday, Dec. 19, 12 p.m. CT

• Xu 8, Derksen 2
• Black 6, Duncan 2
• Gray-Withers 10, Park 1
• Brunner 7, Kalthoff 4

Draw 15: Friday, Dec. 19, 4:30 p.m. CT

• Kean 7, Knapp 2
• Reese-Hansen 9, Wranå 4
• Thevenot 5, Dupont 3
• Dropkin 9, Carruthers 2

Draw 16: Friday, Dec. 19, 8:30 p.m. CT

• Mooibroek 10, Maeda 4
• Brown 7, Cameron 6
• Lawes 7, Martin 1
• Colli 5, Koe 4

Tiebreakers: Saturday, Dec. 20, 8 a.m. CT

• Xu 6, Maeda 5
• Knapp 6, McDonald 5
• Yamaguchi 7, Colli 5
• Dupont 8, Cameron 3

Women's Quarterfinals: Saturday, Dec. 20, 12 p.m. CT

• Dupont 7, Brown 4
• Black 7, Wranå 1
• Lawes 9, Park 3
• Reese-Hansen 7, Gray-Withers 6

Men's Quarterfinals: Saturday, Dec. 20, 4:30 p.m. CT

• Xu 7, Klima 6
• Ramsfjell 6, Knapp 3
• Yamaguchi 7, Kean 5
• Brunner 6, Mooibroek 5

Men's and Women's Semifinals: Saturday, Dec. 20, 8:30 p.m. CT

• Reese-Hansen 5, Dupont 4
• Lawes 8, Black 3
• Ramsfjell 8, Yamaguchi 1
• Brunner 7, Xu 6

Women's Final: Sunday, Dec. 21, 11 a.m. CT (Merlis Belsher Place)

• Lawes vs. Reese-Hansen

Men's Final: Sunday, Dec. 21, 3:30 p.m. CT (Merlis Belsher Place)

• Ramsfjell vs. Brunner