[2][3] After repeatedly making it to provincial championships, and failing to win, finally Cochrane in 2003 became only the fourth Ottawa-based team to play in the Brier.

Cochrane, playing out of the RCMP Curling Club at the time, and his team of Bill Gamble, Ian MacAulay and John Steski defeated Peter Corner in the provincial final.

[2] Two of Cochrane's seniors team - MacAulay and Morgan Currie were born on Prince Edward Island, meaning both players are eligible to represent the province thanks to Curling Canada's new "birth right" rules.

[3] Given this new rule, Cochrane, MacAulay and Currie picked up a lead from the island (Mark O'Rourke) to play in the 2020 PEI Tankard, the provincial men's championship.

[5] Cochrane will again be using a whistle and occasional hand signals to communicate sweeping orders to his team due to his chronic throat condition, although since his retirement from teaching his surgeries have been reduced to about once a year.