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The 2019 Men’s Curling World Championships will take place inside the ENMAX Centre in Canada from March 30 through April 7.
In the United States, coverage of the World Championships, including each of Team USA’s matches, will be live on the Olympic Channel. But if you don’t have cable or don’t have that channel, you can watch a live stream of the Olympic Channel on your computer, phone, Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV or other device via one of the following live-TV streaming services:
FuboTV
The main FuboTV channel package gives you access to 85-plus live TV channels, including the Olympic Channel.
You can start a free 7-day trial of FuboTV right here, and you can then watch a live stream of the Olympic Channel’s coverage of the World Championships on your computer via the FuboTV website, or on your phone (Android and iPhone supported), tablet, Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Chromecast or other supported device via the FuboTV app.
PlayStation Vue
PS Vue–which doesn’t require an actual PlayStation console to sign up or watch–offers four different live-TV channel packages. The “Core” bundle and above all include the Olympic Channel.
You can start a free 5-day trial of PS Vue right here, and you can then watch a live stream of the Olympic Channel’s coverage of the World Championships on your computer via the PS Vue website, or on your phone (Android and iPhone supported), tablet, Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Chromecast, PlayStation (3 or 4), or other supported device via the PS Vue app.
Hulu With Live TV
In addition to a Netflix-like on-demand streaming library, Hulu also offers a bundle of 60-plus live TV channels, including the Olympic Channel.
You can sign up for “Hulu with Live TV” right here, and you can then watch a live stream of the Olympic Channel’s coverage of the World Championships on your computer via the Hulu website, or on your phone (Android and iPhone supported), tablet, Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Chromecast, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Echo Show, or other streaming device via the Hulu app.
2019 Curling World Championships Preview
Following their stunning gold-medal win at the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang, Team USA bowed out in the quarterfinals at last year’s World Championships a couple months later. Of course, they brought a completely new team to that competition, with Rich Ruohonen, Philip Tilker, Colin Hufman and Greg Persinger represented the Red, White and Blue.
This time around, the Americans will return three-fourths of the gold-medal winning squad, with John Shuster back as skip along with John Landsteiner as lead and Matt Hamilton as second. The only change from the Olympic team is Chris Plys replacing Tyler George. The Shuster/Landsteiner/Hamilton/Plys team played together in the second leg of the Curling World Cup in December, beating Niklas Edin and defending world champions Sweden in a rematch of the Olympic gold-medal match.
“I am super excited, it’s been a good season so far,” Plys said. “It’s really a good opportunity for us. We want to go to Alberta and make some noise. I think we need to go and handle our own business up there. Our goal is to come home with a medal, which is getting harder each year for everybody, as a lot of countries are getting a lot better. There are no more gimme games, you’ve got to work for it all.”
Shuster has only a 2016 bronze to show for his eight previous World Championships appearances, but after guiding his team to gold at the Olympics last year, and then beating Sweden again in December, he and the Americans should certainly be considered one of the top favorites in Canada.
Sweden, of course, still can’t be overlooked and will certainly continue to be in the mix. After taking silver at the Olympics, Edin’s squad earned gold at the 2018 world championships, giving him three total in his career. Edin is one of the best ever, and as long as he’s around, Sweden will be in contention.
But the top favorite has to be the hosts, who are currently ranked No. 1 in the world. Canada fell to a surprising fourth-place finish at the Olympics, and they were defeated by Sweden in the final at last year’s World Championships, but Kevin Koe and Ben Hebert have each captured gold twice at the world championships, and now they have a pair of new teammates in B.J. Neufeld and Colton Flasch who have looked really strong together. That quartet went undefeated at the Canadian National Championships in early March, setting them up as the favorites here.
“It’s just up to us to go and take care of business and just play like we can and how we did at the Brier,” Koe said. “If we do that, I’ll think we’ll be in good shape.”