Veteran skip Kevin Martin will have a much different lineup if he decides to return for another season on the mens curling circuit. Trent Brown Jersey . Team second Marc Kennedy and lead Ben Hebert plan to leave Martins rink after this season to join reigning national champion Kevin Koe. Its the first major move of whats expected to be an off-season loaded with significant roster changes. As for the 47-year-old Martin, who has national, world and Olympic titles on his glowing resume, he plans to take some time after the season to consider his future plans. "I cant confirm that Im looking for a new roster," Martin told The Canadian Press on Wednesday from Napa Valley, Calif. "But I can confirm that Marc and Ben are going to curl with Kev, yeah. I havent decided if Im going to curl again at all." The timing of the news is less than ideal for Koe and his current lineup of third Pat Simmons, second Carter Rycroft and lead Nolan Thiessen, who will try to put the distraction aside as they prepare to play at the world championship in Beijing this Saturday. Koe preferred to keep his focus on the upcoming competition and respectfully declined comment. Rycroft, whose wife is pregnant, has already said hell be taking a year off from the sport after this season. Simmons and Thiessen were not available for comment and their future plans remain unclear. Hebert declined comment and a message left with Kennedy was not immediately returned. Martin said it was unfortunate that the news surfaced during the season and before the world championship. "I sure wish none of this stuff (came) out," he said. "Im not exactly sure how it did but its too bad." With the Olympic season nearly complete, several roster changes are expected as teams prepare for the next four-year cycle. Team Brad Jacobs, which won gold at the Sochi Games last month, will be one of the rinks to beat next season. Whats uncertain at this time is what ripple effect the new Koe lineup might have on teams throughout the country. The 2014-15 season isnt necessarily critical as rinks start to look ahead to the 2018 Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, but the sooner that players can lock in the better. Martin, Kennedy and Hebert teamed with John Morris to win Tim Hortons Brier titles in 2008 and 2009, going undefeated en route to the championship each year. They also won Olympic gold at the 2010 Games in Vancouver. Morris left the team almost a year ago and later joined Jim Cotters B.C. rink. Morris was replaced by Dave Nedohin and the current Martin lineup has enjoyed a strong season. Martin wasnt surprised at the pending departure of two of his teammates since they want to position themselves for the next Olympic cycle. "Having teams change and personnel change, thats just part of sport," he said. "Thats not unusual I dont think. Its just unfortunate that any of these changes -- and there are a lot of changes that are going to happen this year -- happen before the end of the (season). That should definitely happen in May." Martin added the moves make "perfect sense" for Kennedy and Hebert. The veteran skip expects to decide on his own future plans by the end of June. There is still one major event left on the curling calendar -- the April 15-20 season-ending Grand Slam Players Championships in Summerside, P.E.I. That competition was already shaping up to be an emotional one with Alison Kreviazuks announcement this week that it will be her last competition with Team Rachel Homan. The longtime second has decided to move to Sweden to be with her boyfriend. Joanne Courtney of Val Sweetings rink will join Homan, lead Lisa Weagle and third Emma Miskew next season. Homan is the reigning national champion and won silver at the world championship last weekend. Cordarrelle Patterson Jersey . Blatter also told reporters Saturday after meeting with Qatars emir that the decision to award the tournament to the desert nation is "not reversible." There have been calls to move the tournament because of Qatars intense heat. Danny Shelton Jersey . These teams will see plenty of each other in the next few weeks as three of the Canucks next nine games are against the Wild (after today they meet February 9th in Minnesota and again February 16th at Rogers Arena). http://www.patriotsauthoritystore.com/Authentic-Trent-Brown-Patriots-Jersey/ . Cory Batey and Brandon Vandenburg were each convicted on four charges of aggravated rape, one of attempted aggravated rape and two for aggravated sexual battery. Vandenburg was also found guilty of tampering with evidence as well as an unlawful photography charge.Nobody knows what the New Year will bring with it. In terms of hockey though, we know that Winnipeg Jets head coach Paul Maurice will achieve a very important and distinguished milestone in his career, and it shouldn’t take much more than the first week or so of the new calendar to accomplish it. Entering Monday night’s game against San Jose – the last home tilt of four in a row for Winnipeg, the Jets’ bench boss has amassed 498 NHL career wins. Since being named Jets head coach 12 months ago, Maurice has guided the Jets to a cumulative record of 36-24-12 over parts of two seasons. However, the majority of his coaching wins leading up to the impending 500th came with the Carolina Hurricanes. In fact, he totaled 323 wins with the ‘Canes and 384 overall with that franchise, which included two seasons as the Hartford Whalers before the team relocated south to Raleigh, North Carolina in 1997. Maurice, who will turn 48 later this month, started his coaching career right out of major junior hockey with the Windsor Spitfires. As a player in the OHL, Maurice suffered a serious eye injury in his first season in Windsor (1984-85). He managed to play four years with the Spitfires, but realized his career on the ice was likely done, as the vision in his right eye never improved. From there, the Sault Ste. Marie product turned his attention to coaching, and quickly accepted an assistant’s position with the Spitfires the very next season after his junior career was complete in 1988-89. At 28, he was named the head coach of the Whalers, a position he held through the transfer of that franchise to Carolina, where he spent another 11 seasons in total. His NHL coaching career also included a pair of seasons as the bench boss of the Toronto Maple Leafs (2006-07 and 2007-08). “It just means you’ve been around too long, I guess,” joked Maurice, when asked recently about his upcoming milestone. Seriously though, no coach wants to acknowledge they had anything to do with their personal record or success as a coach. Most – if not all – will credit the players they coached and deflect to them exclusively as the reason for one victory, never mind 500. But when win No. 500 happens, Maurice’s players will share in the moment as much as anyone. Meanwhile, MMaurice is also expected to coach his 1,200th game in the NHL later this season. Jason McCourty Jersey. It’s expected he’ll officially hit the mark on April 9 when the Jets are in Colorado. Chiarot Emerging Even though Ben Chiarot is playing like a seasoned veteran on the blue line since his call-up from the American Hockey League in early December, the Jets defenceman has not yet been told by the team to get a permanent residence in Winnipeg. He admitted last weekend that he’s still living in a downtown Winnipeg hotel, although one would expect that will change sooner-than-later based on his play, and the organization will inform him to find more established digs in the city. Since joining the club 14 games ago, the Hamilton native has been stellar as a ‘D’ partner with Dustin Byfuglien, playing 20 minutes per game. As a result, it’s highly unlikely he’ll be sent back to St. John’s at all this season. It’s also commonly thought by those that cover the team on a regular basis that Chiarot is now too valuable based on his age (23) and play of late for the Jets to risk losing him to another NHL team as a waiver claim. Therefore, even when the club starts to return the likes of Zach Bogosian, Toby Enstrom, Jacob Trouba, Grant Clitsome and Mark Stuart from injury. that Chiarot will still be part of the team’s defence corps at the NHL level. NOTES: Until Winnipeg’s win over Minnesota on Dec. 27, the Jets had dropped three straight overtime/shootout decisions (Philadelphia, Colorado, Anaheim). However, they have still lost two straight overtime decisions at home….Winnipeg is 6-1-3 against the Metropolitan Division this season and 11-4-4 against the Eastern Conference….Forward Michael Frolik is tied for second in the league with three shorthanded goals this season. He and New York Rangers forward Rick Nash are slightly behind the Los Angeles Kings’ Tyler Toffoli at four….With 26 goals on the season, Dallas Stars forward Tyler Seguin leads the entire NHL. And of the Top 20 scorers in the league, Seguin has also recorded the most shots (160)…..Winnipeg’s penalty kill on the road is second in the league at 88.9 percent. That trails only Chicago (90 percent)….The Jets goal differential is plus-8 entering Monday’s game, the highest of the season. 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