It's that time again! Annual post-Canadians split thread (pairs and dance)

[fan]

Hello Everyone! It's that time again for the annual post-Canadians splits - pairs and dance.

Couples highlighted in Red have split. I'll do Dance. Can someone else do Pairs?

 

[fan]

Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir
2 Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje
3 Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier
4 Carolanne Soucisse / Shane Firus
5 Haley Sales / Nikolas Wamsteeker
6 Sarah Arnold / Thomas Williams
7 Mira Samoisette / Dominic Barthe
8 Elysia-Marie Campbell / Philippe Granger
Vanessa Chartrand / Alexander Seidel

 

[fan]

Junior Dance
Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha QC 61.62 (1) 91.93 (1) 153.55
2 Ashlynne Stairs / Lee Royer BC/YK 56.19 (2) 83.44 (2) 139.63
3 Danielle Wu / Nik Mirzakhani BC/YK 52.48 (4) 81.50 (3) 133.98
4 Valerie Taillefer / Jason Chan QC 54.10 (3) 73.43 (5) 127.53
5 Alicia Fabbri / Claudio Pietrantonio QC 48.46 (7) 77.58 (4) 126.04
6 Irina Galiyanova / Tommy Tang CO 48.89 (6) 71.73 (6) 120.62
7 Sabrina Bédard / George Waddell QC 46.38 (11) 67.97 (7) 114.35
8 Olivia Han / Grayson Lochhead WO 49.12 (5) 62.96 (8) 112.08
9 Keelee Gingrich / Parker Brown CO 48.24 (8) 61.97 (11) 110.21
10 Gina Cipriano / Jake Richardson QC 47.30 (9) 61.41 (12) 108.71
11 Ravie Cunningham / Cedar Bridgewood BC/YK 44.66 (12) 62.47 (10) 107.13
12 Yohanna Broker / Matthew Korkoian WO 37.96 (13) 62.57 (9) 100.53
13 Priya Ramesh / Brandon Labelle CO 33.93 (14) 60.50 (13) 94.43 - he's on IPS
14 Jolie Che / Paul Ayer AB/NT/NU 47.23 (10) 40.75 (15) 87.98
15 Kaitlyn Chubb / Alex Gunther

 

[fan]

Novice Dance
Natalie D Alessandro / Bruce Waddell CO 13.60 (2) 12.35 (2) 64.54 (1) 90.49
2 Jade McCue / Gabriel Clemente CO 12.88 (4) 14.44 (1) 56.96 (5) 84.28
3 Jessica-Lee Behiel / Jackson Behiel AB/NT/NU 13.37 (3) 9.99 (9) 59.84 (3) 83.20
4 Katerina Kasatkin / Corey Circelli CO 10.83 (7) 10.50 (6) 60.11 (2) 81.44
5 Nina Mizuki / Veniamins Volskis BC/YK 10.76 (9) 10.54 (5) 58.26 (4) 79.56
6 Bridget Le Donne / Jakub Smal WO 12.83 (5) 9.84 (10) 53.77 (7) 76.44
7 Charlotte Lafond-Fournier / Anthony Campanelli QC 10.33 (12) 10.44 (7) 54.86 (6) 75.63
8 Sophia Strachan / Everest Zhu WO 14.06 (1) 11.34 (3) 47.89 (13) 73.29
9 Jessica Li / Jacob Richmond QC 9.80 (14) 10.84 (4) 51.84 (8) 72.48
10 Emily Mikulcik / Malcolm Kowan AB/NT/NU 10.55 (11) 9.99 (8) 49.20 (9) 69.74
11 Olivia McIsaac / Liam MacDonald WO 11.62 (6) 9.17 (11) 48.08 (10) 68.87
12 Lily Hensen / Nathan Lickers WO 10.76 (10) 8.56 (13) 48.07 (11) 67.39
13 Pearl Kang / Cael Elford AB/NT/NU 9.76 (15) 8.38 (14) 47.91 (12) 66.05 - she's on IPS
14 Théadora Sauvé / Alexandre Faucher QC 10.22 (13) 8.58 (12) 43.58 (15) 62.38
15 Katrine Roy / Olivier Poupart QC

 

[Catherine M]

There are so few pairs, they fit in one post. Kinda sad.

Senior Pairs:

1 Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford QC
2 Lubov Ilyushechkina / Dylan Moscovitch CO
3 Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro WO
4 Brittany Jones / Joshua Reagan WO
5 Camille Ruest / Andrew Wolfe QC
6 Sydney Kolodziej / Maxime Deschamps
7 Angelina Ekaterinina / Sebastian Arcieri WO
WD Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau QC

Junior Pairs:

1 Evelyn Walsh / Trennt Michaud EO
2 Lori-Ann Matte / Thierry Ferland QC
3 Olivia Boys-Eddy / Mackenzie Boys-Eddy CO
4 Tessa Jones / Matthew den Boer BC/YK
5 Jamie Knoblauch / Cody Wong WO
WD Hannah Dawson / Christian Reekie EO
WD Justine Brasseur / Mathieu Ostiguy QC


Novice Pairs:

1 Chloé Panetta / Steven Lapointe QC
2 Patricia Andrew / Paxton Knott WO
3 Takara Dei / Josh Venema AB/NT/NU He's on IPS
4 Keara Harney / Zachary Freedman QC
5 Danika Levesque / Samir Andjorin QC

 

[Catherine M]

Notable skaters (well ones that I have heard of) looking for pairs partners on IPS:

Bryce Chudak
Pier-Alexandre Hudon
Samuel Morais
Dustin Sherriff-Clayton
Kurtis Schreiber
Josh Venema

Kim DeGuise Leveillee
Bryn Hoffman
Cassandra Leung


Any news on Allison Eby? Brett Varley?

 

[danafan]

Any news on Brett Varley?

Varley is reportedly skating with Mary Orr, but they haven't competed yet.

http://www.brantnews.com/news-story/6943129-an-athlete-for-all-seasons/

 

[DFO]

I do know all these prenovice pairs plan to be in Novice pairs for 2017-18

Brooke McIntosh / Brandon Toste CO
Charlie Forest / Nathaniel Foster QC
Mackenzie Ripley / Owen Brawley WO
Camille Perreault / Bryan Pierro QC
Emmanuelle Guay / Alexandre Roy QC
Véronique Turbide / Jeremy Burns SPLIT Now Véronique Turbide /Willliam St-Louis QC
Laura Bergeron / Louis-Marie Labelle QC

I don't know if Jeremy Burns is searching.

 

[blue_idealist]

Notable skaters (well ones that I have heard of) looking for pairs partners on IPS:

Bryce Chudak
Pier-Alexandre Hudon
Samuel Morais
Dustin Sherriff-Clayton
Kurtis Schreiber
Josh Venema

Kim DeGuise Leveillee
Bryn Hoffman
Cassandra Leung


Any news on Allison Eby? Brett Varley?

I saw Sherriff-Clayton on the list for Sr. Men at Nationals. I don't know much about him. Is he normally a pairs skater?

 

[Catherine M]

I saw Sherriff-Clayton on the list for Sr. Men at Nationals. I don't know much about him. Is he normally a pairs skater?

Dustin has skated pairs before, he just hasn't had a partner for awhile since he's very short for a male pairs skater, only 5'6 so he's going to need someone tiny who has been through puberty so the potential pool of partners is extremely small but I guess at this point all you can do is keep on looking.

 

[4rkidz]

There are so few pairs, they fit in one post. Kinda sad.Senior Pairs:



Novice Pairs:

1 Chloé Panetta / Steven Lapointe QC
2 Patricia Andrew / Paxton Knott WO
3 Takara Dei / Josh Venema AB/NT/NU He's on IPS
4 Keara Harney / Zachary Freedman QC
5 Danika Levesque / Samir Andjorin QC

I think you will see that Takara has new partner soon, interestingly we picked her to be the perfect match for Zach Dalemen but he apparently already has a pairs partner. Hope he takes well to pairs he is the perfect size. Actually him an his sister would be interesting

 

[barbarafan]

I think you will see that Takara has new partner soon, interestingly we picked her to be the perfect match for Zach Dalemen but he apparently already has a pairs partner. Hope he takes well to pairs he is the perfect size. Actually him an his sister would be interesting

Zachary Daleman is doing pairs? I had thought of him for pairs but he skated in singles so well at canadians I was very impressed. Are you able to tell us who his partner is or is it hush hush..I understand if it is.

 

[happyfan]

According to Facebook posts, Justine Brasseur and Mathieu Osteguy have parted ways.
There was no mention of new partnerships at this time.

 

[Sylvia]

Mathieu Ostiguy has an IPS profile up: http://icepartnersearch.com/showbio.php?i=5801

 

[Catherine M]

Not a surprise at all that Brasseur & Ostiguy split as she just got too big for him, which happens all the time with younger teams. They'll always have that great 15/16 season when they went to Youth Olympic Games in Norway among other international comps.

Best of luck to both Justine & Mathieu in the next phase of their skating career.

 

[Catherine M]

To answer my own question, here's Alison Eby's IPS bio:

http://icepartnersearch.com/showbio.php?i=5804

So she's looking for a new partner too.

Hopefully we'll be hearing of new partnerships in the coming weeks!

Edited to add an updated list of notable pairs skaters on IPS:


Bryce Chudak
Pier-Alexandre Hudon
Samuel Morais
Mathieu Ostiguy
Dustin Sherriff-Clayton
Kurtis Schreiber
Josh Venema

Alison Eby
Kim DeGuise Leveillee
Bryn Hoffman
Cassandra Leung
Katrina Lopez

 

[Cant Skate]

Katrina Lopez is on IPS as well...she was partnered with Kurtis and medalled in Novice I believe in 2016 (not sure of the exact details and I'm too lazy to look it up)

Should Wes Killing be added to this list? He is still a Canadian guy even though he's represented Japan for the last two years. His partner Marin is on IPS but he's not so I'm not actually sure if he's planning on continuing.

 

[Catherine M]

Katrina Lopez is on IPS as well...she was partnered with Kurtis and medalled in Novice I believe in 2016 (not sure of the exact details and I'm too lazy to look it up)

Thanks for info on Katrina Lopez. Now that you mentioned her partnership with Kurtis, I now remember her. So I've added her to the list of IPS'ers!

 

[Rock2]

I think we're in for some really interesting matchups here such that pairs will finally have a solid reboot in Canada that will position us well for the future.

Eby and Brasseur will be highly sought after. And then looking ahead I assume Luba becomes available after Korea.

As for men I'm also keeping my eye on Michaud who I'm guessing will make a move and possibly repartner after the cycle. I also think Arcieri is immensely talented (and like Michaud even stronger than he looks) and hasn't found his perfect match yet.

The other one that I'm keeping my eye on is Boudreau-Audet who is skating for Japan. He's good and needs to get back into the mix in Canada with the list of partners available. I'll bet 50 bucks that purely on my own speculation there has been discussion about him snapping up Brasseur with the main barrier being is she ready to go senior. Not sure if she's age eligible. My research says she turns 16 on July 10...and I'm wondering if the cut off date is July 1. Too lazy to research but it may not work on that front. He's 6 ft 1 with two triples; this boy has to be coming back to us.

We need to add Portz/Purich to the list. Seems they missed nationals due to her injury but will be back on the ice.

I'd like to see someone like Emy Decelles pair with Morais or Boudreau-Audet. That just visually seems to work for me.

I think the rest will depend not just on matches but where people are willing to live and what their goals are. Can only speculate.

Eby/Chudak sounds interesting
Brasseur/Chudak are in the same camp, so....
Eby/Arcieri should be trying out in my mind. No idea why that hasn't happened.

I think a lot of dominoes fall once Brasseur repartners. I think her best matches longer term are Boudreau and then maybe Chudak and then I think Michaud could even handle her despite his height. He's just such a strong pair boy. If she's retrenching in juniors and grabs a younger guy or someone out of novice then the landscape changes.

My wild card prediction is that in 2018 Luba pairs up with Trennt.
He has beautiful lines and skating skills and similar jumps to her. He's short but strong. Has elements of Pelletier and Brubaker to his movement and style. On that front a better match for Luba than Dylan.
I also have a feeling he for personal reasons doesn't want to move too far and neither does she. Only so many solutions in Ontario. I think they could be an amazing vision on the ice.

That's my mind dump. Lots of cool stuff on the horizon. I'm sure of it.

 

[kwanfan1818]

A skater needs to be 15 by July 1 to be age-eligible for seniors. Brasseur will be age-eligible starting this July 1 for the 2017-18 season.

 

[Catherine M]

I did the math at lunch on which pair skater looking for a partner has has any junior eligibility left from the names on IPS (and Brasseur). Here's what I've come up with:


Bryce Chudak---None
Pier-Alexandre Hudon---3 years
Samuel Morais--None
Mathieu Ostiguy--1 year
Dustin Sherriff-Clayton---None
Kurtis Schreiber---1 year
Josh Venema--2 years


Justine Brasseur--4 years
Alison Eby---4 years
Kim DeGuise Leveillee---None
Bryn Hoffman---None
Cassandra Leung--3 years
Katrina Lopez--2 years


And @Rock2, I teamed up Luba & Trennt in my head awhile ago.

 

[fan]

I had teamed up Luba and Drew, but I like him with Ruest. I approve of the Michaud pairing.

 

[barbarafan]

I think we're in for some really interesting matchups here such that pairs will finally have a solid reboot in Canada that will position us well for the future.

Eby and Brasseur will be highly sought after. And then looking ahead I assume Luba becomes available after Korea.

As for men I'm also keeping my eye on Michaud who I'm guessing will make a move and possibly repartner after the cycle. I also think Arcieri is immensely talented (and like Michaud even stronger than he looks) and hasn't found his perfect match yet.

The other one that I'm keeping my eye on is Boudreau-Audet who is skating for Japan. He's good and needs to get back into the mix in Canada with the list of partners available. I'll bet 50 bucks that purely on my own speculation there has been discussion about him snapping up Brasseur with the main barrier being is she ready to go senior. Not sure if she's age eligible. My research says she turns 16 on July 10...and I'm wondering if the cut off date is July 1. Too lazy to research but it may not work on that front. He's 6 ft 1 with two triples; this boy has to be coming back to us.

We need to add Portz/Purich to the list. Seems they missed nationals due to her injury but will be back on the ice.

I'd like to see someone like Emy Decelles pair with Morais or Boudreau-Audet. That just visually seems to work for me.

I think the rest will depend not just on matches but where people are willing to live and what their goals are. Can only speculate.

Eby/Chudak sounds interesting
Brasseur/Chudak are in the same camp, so....
Eby/Arcieri should be trying out in my mind. No idea why that hasn't happened.

I think a lot of dominoes fall once Brasseur repartners. I think her best matches longer term are Boudreau and then maybe Chudak and then I think Michaud could even handle her despite his height. He's just such a strong pair boy. If she's retrenching in juniors and grabs a younger guy or someone out of novice then the landscape changes.

My wild card prediction is that in 2018 Luba pairs up with Trennt.
He has beautiful lines and skating skills and similar jumps to her. He's short but strong. Has elements of Pelletier and Brubaker to his movement and style. On that front a better match for Luba than Dylan.
I also have a feeling he for personal reasons doesn't want to move too far and neither does she. Only so many solutions in Ontario. I think they could be an amazing vision on the ice.

That's my mind dump. Lots of cool stuff on the horizon. I'm sure of it.

Arcieri skated at nationals with a partner already..Angelina only problem....chris wirtz is the coach.

I like Trent with Walsh...he is so stable and strong...so he could partner anybody.

Has Dylan actually said he will retire after Olympics.
Dylan had said he would skate at least until the OLympics but after that he could not say yes for sure. Has that changed?

Trent seems to be a my way or the highway kind of person judging by the breakup with Eby.

 

[Rock2]

I'm not loving the Arcieri pairing. If it keeps him in the game for now that's fine by me.
She's not that tiny, yet he pitched her in the air so high on the twist. Wow...

I do feel badly trying to set Trennt up with someone else when the Walsh partnership is so new. She's doing remarkably well, so it for sure wouldn't hurt for them to finish the cycle and then see where they are at. I think he has starpower and there could be a better match out there. In fairness, if Walsh ends up being it, so be it.

I know the Eby/Michaud split was discussed awhile back. As with Kirsten and Dylan we have to remember there are soooooo many things that go into making a partnership work (or collapse). I have decided to be objective and say I just don't know the full story. So, I'm not pointing to anyone.

 

[Rock2]

And @Rock2, I teamed up Luba & Trennt in my head awhile ago.

Excellent. I'll have the buttons made #Luba&Trennt18

Hmmmmm, Daleman/Brasseur??......

 

[Erin]

While I agree that Boudreau-Audet has a ton of talent and would rather see him skate for Canada, I see two potential problems with any pairing in Canada. One is that he would be forced to sit out a year. The second is funding...I would assume that he would be getting some significant costs defrayed by the Japanese fed. This situation is exacerbated by the need to sit out a year because he isn't eligible for carding while he isn't eligible to compete internationally for Canada.

 

[jlmart]

I think there is also the question of competition opportunities. Skating pairs in a country that has a weak pairs programme like Japan or Finland would mean there would be a much higher chance of going to worlds I would imagine.

 

[CdnSk8Fan]

Junior Dance split - not listed above
Hannah Whitley / Elliott Graham

Saw this https://twitter.com/ellogam1998/status/828254131383058437
Tryout? Confirmed?

This leads me to think Olivia McIsaac / Liam MacDonald have split? Can anyone confirm?

 

[clairecloutier]

I think there is also the question of competition opportunities. Skating pairs in a country that has a weak pairs programme like Japan or Finland would mean there would be a much higher chance of going to worlds I would imagine.

It's not just Worlds, it's other events too. Suto/Boudreau Audet got at least 1 Challenger Series assignment this year (U.S. Classic), 1 other fall international (Torun Cup), 1 Grand Prix (NHK Trophy, host pick), and will skate at 4CCs. If he were skating for Canada, he'd probably only get 1 Challenger Series event at best, that is until he proved himself in a new pairing, which would take at least 1 season and probably 2.

 

[Catherine M]

Zachary Freedman is now on IPS so another novice team has split. He says he has british citizenship too.


I'll redo the pairs list to show a couple of new splits since we first started the thread.

Senior Pairs:

1 Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford QC
2 Lubov Ilyushechkina / Dylan Moscovitch CO
3 Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro WO
4 Brittany Jones / Joshua Reagan WO
5 Camille Ruest / Andrew Wolfe QC
6 Sydney Kolodziej / Maxime Deschamps
7 Angelina Ekaterinina / Sebastian Arcieri WO
WD Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau QC

Junior Pairs:

1 Evelyn Walsh / Trennt Michaud EO
2 Lori-Ann Matte / Thierry Ferland QC
3 Olivia Boys-Eddy / Mackenzie Boys-Eddy CO
4 Tessa Jones / Matthew den Boer BC/YK
5 Jamie Knoblauch / Cody Wong WO
WD Hannah Dawson / Christian Reekie EO
WD Justine Brasseur / Mathieu Ostiguy QC He's on IPS


Novice Pairs:

1 Chloé Panetta / Steven Lapointe QC
2 Patricia Andrew / Paxton Knott WO
3 Takara Dei / Josh Venema AB/NT/NU Both on IPS
4 Keara Harney / Zachary Freedman QC He's on IPS
5 Danika Levesque / Samir Andjorin QC