CFL Gameday: Calgary at Montreal (October 30)

The Winnipeg Blue Bombers opened the door on Friday night, Sunday will see if the Montreal Alouettes take advantage of the generosity.

The Alouettes host the Calgary Stampeders in a game that has first place possibilities for both teams on the line.

A win by Montreal and they once again are can take the lead from the Bombers for first place in the CFL East,  an opportunity that the home town crowd might wish to see, providing for yet another CFL East final at Molson Stadium in a couple of weeks.

With a victory, the Stamps can join the logjam for first in the West, where both BC and Edmonton hold down the top spot, with the advantage going to BC on the strength of their win on Saturday night.

Calgary enters today's game still confident in Drew Tate's skills at QB, Tate who took over the top job from Henry Burris last week has had a fairly rewarding time at the pivotal position, though it remains to be seen if in the tension of a key life or death game his relative inexperience, compared to Burris' veteran poise will come back to haunt the Stamps.

Montreal of course will rely on the always poised Anthony Calvillo, who had a very unlike Anthony kind of game last week in Winnipeg, look for him to seek out a bit of revenge for that first half performance taking out his frustrations on the Stampeders secondary.

With but one more week to go in the 2011 season, we still have some key games to determine placements for five of six playoff bound teams (all but Hamilton (who have know for a couple of weeks that it's all road games, all the time in the playoffs) still control their fate in this last week dash to the playoff rounds.

Game Time 1 PM ET (10 AM PT, 11 MT) Molson Stadium  TSN

Pre Game

Calgary Herald-- Richardson salivating at Stamps matchup
Calgary Sun-- Stamps road-testing best in Alouettes
Globe and Mail-- Stamps, Eskimos to honour high school players killed in crash
Montreal Alouettes must win against Calgary Stampeders ...

Quick Snaps Montreal Alouettes
Quick Snaps Calgary Stampeders


Post Game


Calgary 32 at Montreal 27
Attendance-- 24,051


Calgary Herald-- Stampeders hang on to narrow lead, edge Alouettes 32-27
Calgary Sun-- Stamps claim crucial CFL win over Alouettes
Globe and Mail-- Missing ingredient confounds Alouettes
National Post-- Stampeders tied for first in West with win over Alouettes
Canada.com-- Stamps hold off Als to stay in hunt for West title