CALGARY, March 13, 2009 -- Manitoba's Jeff Stoughton will play Newfoundland's Brad Gushue in Saturday's Page Playoff 3 vs 4 game here at the Tim Hortons Brier.

Stoughton advanced to the 3 vs 4 game with a 6-3 win over Quebec's Jean-Michel Menard at the Saddledome Friday afternoon.

The win sets up a rematch between Manitoba and Newfoundland of their round-robin game Thursday morning. Manitoba won that game convincingly, 8-3, allowing them to keep their playoff hopes alive.

The game will also be a rematch of the final of the 2005 Canadian Curling Trials, which Gushue won en route to an Olympic gold medal at the 2006 Turin Games.

Stoughton said he has no illusions about settling that score with a win over Gushue tomorrow.

"It doesn't matter if we beat him a hundred times," Stoughton said, "it will not replace that."

Quebec and Manitoba finished the round-robin with identical 7-4 records, forcing the tiebreaker game to determine who claimed the fourth and final playoff spot.

Stoughton was spectacular in the victory over Quebec, making four runback doubles to bail his team out of trouble.

The Brier resumes here this evening when Alberta's Kevin Martin takes on Ontario's Glenn Howard in the Page Playoff 1 vs 2 game. Martin takes a perfect 11-0 record -- and a 24-game Brier winning streak -- into the game, while Howard comes in with a 9-2 round-robin record.

The winner of the 1 vs 2 game advances straight to Sunday night's Brier final, while the loser gets a second chance in the Brier semi-final Saturday night against the winner of Manitoba-Newfoundland.