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Seven Scots will beryllium playing - 5 of whom were astatine nan Winter Olympics successful Cortina and different mates who were astatine nan caller World Championship - while 2022 Olympic golden medallist Eve Muirhead will return connected a wide head role.

Mouat skips Northern Shield and is joined by Olympic mixed doubles partner Jen Dodds and Robin Brydone.

Muirhead joins Hammy McMillan successful nan different European franchise, Alpine Curling Club. "I deliberation we've 5 Olympic medals betwixt america from this caller Games, which is beautiful incredible," Muirhead, who was Team GB's cook de mission, said.

Grant Hardie is pinch American outfit Frontier Curling Club and Ross Whyte joins Canadian squad Maple United.

Perhaps astir interestingly, Bobby Lammie is portion of Asian franchise Typhoon Curling Club and will squad up pinch woman Seol Ye-eun.

"That could beryllium an absorbing dynamic," he tells BBC Sport Scotland. "I'm looking guardant to it, but hopefully we don't autumn out."

"The main situation for us, successful nan Asian franchise, is going to beryllium nan connection obstruction because there's Chinese players, Japanese, Korean, arsenic good arsenic New Zealand, and Sweden. But that's portion of nan fun."