Canada’s Brad Gushue posted a pair of wins Tuesday to begin a busy stretch for his St. John’s-based team at the world men’s curling championship in Schaffhausen, Switzerland.

Gushue posted a 7-4 victory over New Zealand’s Anton Hood in the morning draw at the IWC Arena and then dumped American John Shuster 8-2 in the evening session.

It was the first of four straight two-game days for the Canadian side of Gushue, Mark Nichols, E.J. Harnden and Geoff Walker.

Canada was in sole possession of second place at 5-1 behind unbeaten Niklas Edin of Sweden (6-0), who beat New Zealand 11-7 in the afternoon draw.

“We’re in a good place right now but we still have to finish, there’s six games left,” Gushue said. “If we really want one of those top two spots you probably have to win five of those six and there’s still some really good teams left.

“We’ll chip away [to] make sure we get a playoff spot and eventually once we do that we’ll start honing in on one of those top two places.”