HALIFAX — Brad Gushue was crouched down on the ice at the Scotiabank Centre with his head in his hands, not long after the veteran skipper from Newfoundland had let his final rock fly on Wednesday night at Canada’s Olympic trials.

The takeout for three in a must-win round robin finale was there, the moment was there for the late-game heroics to stay alive and earn a playoff berth, and Gushue missed it.

“Just had to hit probably two thirds, three quarters of it, and couldn’t yell loud enough,” a disappointed Gushue said following his team’s 6-3 loss to Brad Jacobs, following that last rock he’d thrown that hadn’t curled enough. “I tried to get them to sweep most of the way down the sheet and we just missed the line call.”

And so Gushue, who won Olympic gold for Canada in 2006 and bronze

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