(By: Paul Wiecek)
The list of potential replacements for the vacant lead position on the Jeff Stoughton foursome has expanded to include a former Olympic gold medallist.
Sort of.
Mark Nichols (CP photo)
Newfoundland’s Mark Nichols — who won gold in Torino in 2006 as third for Brad Gushue — will play lead for Stoughton at next month’s prestigious Players Championship in Summerside, P.E.I. in what Stoughton described Wednesday night as a one-off — at least for now.
“We thought it’d be fun to play with the guy,” said Stoughton, “so we called him up and he said, ‘Let me see if I can get the time off work.’ And he did. So it’s great…
“It’s solving our problem for that weekend. And yeah, it’d be awesome if he could play for us (next winter). But that’s not even on the radar or in talks right now. It just sort of worked out that the need came up and we gave him a call.”