The 2022 Ontario Tankard, (known as the Port Elgin Chrysler '22 Ontario Tankard Presented by Bruce Power for sponsorship reasons), the provincial men's curling championship for Southern Ontario, was held from February 9 to 13 at The Plex in Port Elgin, Ontario.^[1] The winning Howard team represented Ontario at the 2022 Tim Hortons Brier, Canada's national men's curling championship in Lethbridge, Alberta.^[2]

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2022 Ontario Tankard
Host city	Port Elgin, Ontario
Arena	The Plex
Dates	February 9–13
Winner	Team Howard
Curling club	Penetanguishene Curling Club, Penetanguishene
Skip	Scott Howard
Third	Adam Spencer
Second	David Mathers
Lead	Tim March
Alternate	Glenn Howard
Finalist	John Epping
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The event was expected to attract around 9,000 spectators, and to bring a $1,000,000 to the local economy.^[2] Bruce County contributed $5,000 cash and $5,000 in-kind for sponsorship, with revenues expected to contribute to improving the local Port Elgin Curling Club, which is playing host to the event (but is not the host venue).^[3]

Team Howard, skipped by Scott Howard, won in the final, defeating the defending champion John Epping rink. Team Howard's normal skip, Glenn Howard (Scott's father) missed the event due to a knee injury. Spare Adam Spencer filled in as third on the team, which also consisted of David Mathers and Tim March. Epping took control early in the final, going up 3–1 after 2 ends, but team Howard remained patient, blanking the next four ends, before Scott Howard made a double in the 7th to tie the game. Epping blanked the eighth, but narrowly missed a blank opportunity in 9th, giving up a steal of one. In the tenth, Howard made a double to lie two on his last. Epping attempted to respond with a double of his own, but missed, giving up another steal, losing the game 5–3. In total, there were about 500 fans on hand to watch the game, which was described as "electric" by Glenn Howard, in a game that was played amidst changing regulations due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario.^[4]

Originally, eight teams were to qualify, two from a cash spiel qualifier, three from an open qualifier, the top two southern Ontario teams in the CTRS standings (December 1, 2021), and one from the "Trillium Tour Series", the top team from a series of Ontario Curling Tour events (as of December 20, 2021).^[5]

On January 24, 2022, CurlON decided to expand the field to 12 teams, as it could not hold the open qualifier due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario. It invited the next top 7 teams on the CTRS ranking who were in the qualifiers.^[6]

Camm

Epping

Ferris

Horgan

Howard

Kean

Latimer

Mitchell

Mooibroek

Niepage

Reid

Steep

Teams

The team lineups are as follows:^{[7] [8] [9]}

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Skip	Third	Second	Lead	Alternate	Club
Jason Camm	Matthew Hall	Cameron Goodkey	Jordie Lyon-Hatcher		Navan Curling Club, Navan, Ottawa
John Epping	Ryan Fry	Mathew Camm	Brent Laing		Leaside Curling Club, East York, Toronto
Pat Ferris	Ian Dickie	Connor Duhaime	Zachary Shurtleff		Grimsby Curling Club, Grimsby
Tanner Horgan	Jonathan Beuk	Wesley Forget	Scott Chadwick	Jacob Horgan	Cataraqui Golf and Country Club, Kingston
Scott Howard	Adam Spencer	David Mathers	Tim March	Glenn Howard [lower-alpha 1]	Penetanguishene Curling Club, Penetanguishene
Mark Kean	Kevin Flewwelling	Ed Cyr	Sean Harrison		Ingersoll & District Curling Club, Ingersoll
Shane Latimer	Punit Sthankiya	Brett Lyon-Hatcher	Brendan Acorn	Nicholas Lemieux	Whitby Curling Club, Whitby
Scott Mitchell	Landan Rooney	Nathan Steele	Colin Schnurr	Jacob Jones	Whitby Curling Club, Whitby
Sam Mooibroek	Matthew Garner	Brady Lumley	Spencer Dunlop	John Gabel	KW Granite Club, Waterloo
Dylan Niepage	Gavin Lydiate	Jayden King	Daniel Del Conte		Guelph Curling Club, Guelph
Fraser Reid	Shane Konings	Spencer Nuttall	Tyler Twining		Blue Water Curling Club, Owen Sound
Sam Steep	Adam Vincent	Oliver Campbell	Thomas Ryan	Douglas Thomson	KW Granite Club, Waterloo

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The draw is listed as follows: