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Originally Posted by Cowperson
If you have the hammer in the 11th end, why not just remove every Swedish stone as they're thrown, regardless of where they are on the ice, rolling your own out of the way in the process - basically keeping the ice clear - and then draw to the button with your last rock to win?
Why allow clutter, which can only advantage the Swedes, to build up at all?
Cowperson
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Because curling would be pretty boring if they allowed that. The first few guards that are put up are not allowed to be peeled off.