The 1982 Labatt Brier, the

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men's

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championship was held from March 7 to 14, 1982 at the

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in Brandon,

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. The total attendance for the week was 106,394, which was the first Brier to be attended by over 100,000 spectators. After losing in the Brier final the previous two years, Al Hackner, who skipped Team Northern Ontario finally captured the Brier tankard in the third straight final appearance after defeating

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, skipped by Brent Giles in the final 7–3. Northern Ontario advanced to the final after defeating

8–5 in the semifinal. This was Northern Ontario's third Brier championship and the first of two titles skipped by Hackner. The Hackner rink would go onto represent

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in the 1982 Air Canada Silver Broom, the men's world curling championship held in

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which they captured the world championship as well. Manitoba's 6–5 victory over

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in Draw 2 and British Columbia's 7–6 victory over Northern Ontario in Draw 12 were the sixth and seventh instances in which a game went into a second extra end in the Brier. This was also only the second Brier to feature multiple double extra end games, with the other occurring in .

Teams

The teams were listed as follows:

Map of teams

Round-robin standings

''Final Round Robin standings''

Round-robin results

All draw times are listed in

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( UTC-06:00).

Draw 1

''Sunday, March 7, 1:00 pm''

Draw 2

''Sunday, March 7, 7:30 pm''

Draw 3

''Monday, March 8, 9:00 am''

Draw 4

''Monday, March 8, 1:30 pm''

Draw 5

''Monday, March 8, 7:30 pm''

Draw 6

''Tuesday, March 9, 9:00 am''

Draw 7

''Tuesday, March 9, 1:30 pm''

Draw 8

''Tuesday, March 9, 7:30 pm''

Draw 9

''Wednesday, March 10, 9:00 am''

Draw 10

''Wednesday, March 10, 1:30 pm''

Draw 11

''Wednesday, March 10, 7:30 pm''

Draw 12

''Thursday, March 11, 1:30 pm''

Draw 13

''Thursday, March 11, 7:30 pm''

Draw 14

''Friday, March 12, 9:00 am''

Draw 15

''Friday, March 12, 1:30 pm''

Tiebreakers

was awarded the bye into the second tiebreaker round based on head-to-head victories over both

and

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in the round robin.

Round 1

''Friday, March 12, 7:30 pm''

Round 2

''Saturday, March 13, 9:00 am''

Playoffs

Semifinal

''Saturday, March 13, 1:45 pm''

Final

''Sunday, March 14, 12:45 pm''

Awards

All-Star Team

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Ross G.L. Harstone Award

The Ross Harstone Award was presented to the player chosen by their fellow peers as the curler who best represented Harstone's high ideals of good sportsmanship, observance of the rules, exemplary conduct and curling ability.

References

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