a few weeks after morris announced his departure from the team, martin announced that david nedohin, the fourth player on his former provincial rival randy ferbey's team, would join martin's team. martin and team won their first event of the season at the shoot-out. they made the semifinals in their next event at the point optical curling classic, but martin injured his back during the semifinal game. jeff sharp subbed in at lead, and martin's team finished the event as runners-up to jeff stoughton. after winning the final of the direct horizontal drilling fall classic over brock virtue and posting a semifinals finish at the cactus pheasant classic, martin played in the masters grand slam, finishing the round robin with a 3–1 win-loss record. he proceeded to win his games over kevin koe and liu rui before reaching the final, where he played a close game with glenn howard until howard pulled away with the win.