CALGARY -- The battle for playoff positioning in the CFLs West Division kicks into high gear when the Calgary Stampeders host the B.C. Lions on Friday. You can watch the game live on TSN at 8:30pm et/5:30pm pt and get in-depth player stats, Twitter Trender and more on our GameTracker. The Stampeders, Lions and Saskatchewan Roughriders have all secured playoff spots, but order of finish will be determined in these final four weeks of the regular season. Each week features a head-to-head matchup between two of them while the other faces the Edmonton Eskimos. At 11-3, Calgary is the frontrunner to finish first in the West with the Lions and Roughriders chasing at 9-5. The top team gets the division final at home Nov. 17 plus a weeks rest, while the second seed hosts the third seed in the semifinal Nov. 10. "The good thing is its in our hands," Stampeders quarterback Kevin Glenn said. "We dont need help from anybody else. Its set up for us pretty good. All we have to do is go out and handle our business now." The 3-11 Eskimos are at the bottom of the division. They have been all but mathematically eliminated from a crossover playoff spot in the East Division. The combination of a Calgary win Friday and an Edmonton upset victory over the Roughriders on Saturday would translate to the Stampeders finishing no worse than second in the division and a home playoff date. The Stampeders and Lions were 1-1 heading into the third of their four meetings this regular season. The two clubs close out the campaign against each other in Vancouver on Nov. 1. "B.C. has a really good defence, but its important for us to establish dominance," Stampeders running back Jon Cornish said. "If we want to win the West, we have to show to the other best teams in this league, Saskatchewan and B.C., were No. 1." Calgary downed the Lions 44-32 in the season opener, but lost 27-22 in Vancouver on Aug. 17. "A lot of the things we looked at and discussed throughout the week was the last time we played this team," Lions head coach Mike Benevides said. "This is an outstanding football team with tremendous balance. Its going to be a huge challenge for us. "You cant undersell the value of this game. Its a huge game for both teams." Calgary is coming off a 38-11 win over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers with Cornish running for a career-high 208 yards. The New Westminster, B.C., is 42 yards away from breaking his own record of single-season rushing yards by a Canadian running back. B.C.s running game stalled in a 31-17 loss at home to the Roughriders last week. The Lions mustered just 80 yards on the ground with their leading rusher Andrew Harris held to 10 yards on six carries. Benevides took some of the blame for that low number upon himself, but Harris says the offence has to commit to the running game. "The biggest thing is the want to," the Winnipeg native. "The offensive co-ordinator has to want to do it, the offensive line has to want to do it and I have to be the guy who delivers and hits the holes and makes plays. "The run game is very important and its something we need to catch fire on. Calgary is definitely a team we need to knock off." The Stampeders will get their first look at Lions quarterback Thomas DeMarco, who is 2-1 since Travis Lulay was sidelined with a shoulder injury. DeMarco has averaged 221 throwing yards in his three games and has four touchdown passes. He was intercepted three times by Saskatchewan last week. "Thomas DeMarco, Im ready for him," Stampeders sack leader Charleston Hughes said. "Hes a good quarterback. Is he ready for me is the question." Calgarys depth at quarterback gives the Stampeders a distinct advantage over their western rivals down the stretch. Glenn is 2-1 in three starts since returning from injury and 7-2 overall this season. Drew Tate will dress for a second game since his return from a throwing arm injury in Week 2. Waiting in the wings is Bo Levi Mitchell, who is 3-0 in starts this season. Calgary had to plug injury holes at quarterback, at receiver, on the offensive line and in the defensive backfield this season. Now, its the special teams turn. The Stampeders lost linebacker Alvin Bowen and running back Wilkerson DeSouza to anterior cruciate ligament knee injuries in the Winnipeg game. Receiver Chris Bauman was on the verge of returning to the lineup after breaking a bone in his wrist during training camp, but also injured his ACL this week. Running back Clifton Smith and linebacker Glenn Love were activated from the practice roster for this game. Linebacker Malik Jackson is rotating back into the lineup after a broken arm and may see time on special teams. Notes: The Stampeders and NHLs Flames have home games starting at the same time Friday in Calgary. The teams have the same ownership group. ... Temperatures are expected to hover near the freezing mark at McMahon Stadium for game time. ... Lions kicker Paul McCallum will play his 304th career regular season games and tie Paul Osbaldiston for sixth on the all-time list. ... At 95.3 per cent made, Calgary field-goal kicker Rene Paredes is on pace to break McCallums single-season record of 94.3. ... B.C. hasnt lost two regular-season games in a row since July 2011. Mario Lemieux Throwback Jersey . -- The Buffalo Sabres got the lead for a change, and held onto it thanks to a stellar performance in goal by Jhonas Enroth. Tom Barrasso Jersey . - The Chicago Cubs say they have agreed to one-year contracts with pitchers Jason Hammel and James McDonald. http://www.hockeypenguinsjerseysstore.com/Black-Mario-Lemieux-Jersey/. It offers no assurances and doesnt apply any context, like, for example, taking injuries into account. Last year, this method forecasted the first round at a 7-1 clip; this year it was 5-3, with losses on Columbus, Colorado and San Jose. Chris Kunitz Jersey . Miller finished in two minutes, 6.09 seconds, one day before the first medal race on the Alpine schedule. The 36-year-old American also turned in the top time in Thursdays opening training session. Marc-Andre Fleury Youth Jersey . McCann was hurt in the third inning Friday night against Cleveland but remained in the game until he was pinch hit for in the sixth. Manager Joe Girardi said McCann was feeling cloudy.Start as you mean to go on then? Hardly. Bookies were offering odds of 13/1 before kickoff that the home team Houston Dynamo would prevail by three goals to nil. Ominous odds. We should have seen the warning. What price, we wonder for three players to be red-carded from the same team in blue? Drooping off the pitch with heads hung shamefully low, only eight men in tow? The Montreal Impact had just made MLS history. No, not the type which would have been in the January power point presentations. In the 20-plus year history of MLS, no team - and there has been many rough-edged ones, has ever had three players dismissed in the course of a playoff match. At least one from the Impacts Podium of Shame had the calmness of thought about him only minutes after reaching the dressing room to offer up an apology just before dipping into that icy cold early bath. And it was Romero taking to social media, typing out, "Sorry for my reaction in the game tonight. I felt great impotence [sic importance] and no I couldnt control. excuse me!" Ill leave the jokers amongst you to play off Romeros spoonerism of impotence. It could of course be the best describing word to detail the last 10 matches this season from MLSs 19th franchise. Displaying though a certain PR savvy, Romero was canny enough to aim his tweet at not only his employee but also to those who have sacrificed both their hard earned money and valuable time to the Impact cause for over a decade - UM02. Better known in MLS Supporter Group Culture as the Montreal Ultras. I am not going to waste any time on searching for any quotes where Impact head coach Marco Schällibaum would perhaps have offered up apologies. For all I know, he may have already been fired. Schällibaums almost monthly apology address have worn mighty hallow over the course of a very lengthy season. How many have we heard already? Tiresome. As Keith Richards reminds us, "Talk Is Cheap." Only our actions count, be the direct inference from Rock and Rolls bad boy. Its not form to blame Schällibaum for his actions. Or more precisely, his inactions. Blame Rivas, Romero and Di Vaio all you like. But the last time I checked, football was still a team sport. Every team instructed and bought together in football harmony by the technical staff - under the guidance of management. Youve let everyone down. Every single stakeholder. From top to bottom. First and foremost your supporters. Or as one of the games canniest of business minds, Peter Kenyon, ex-CEO of Manchester United and Chelsea FC, once infamously described football fans as customers. Kenyons only crime? Brutal honesty in his forthright choice of words. Sticking with the money theme all those club partners which have invested both marketing dollars basis will feel a sense of been had. Each of the club partners buys in with the expectation of success. The reward system providing, as the money men refer to as the ROI. To the uninitiated, the Return On Investment. Success on the pitch leading to success off of it as the cliché goes. The partner group is the sub species of a football club which makes available a significant percentage of the capital to allow for investment and upgrades to the playing pool. The risks the partner group buy into happened during 90 minutes of Houston Hell last night. The clever ones will have though built such scenarios into their strategy planning models. After all, what is that they say about, out of all bad comes good. Not wanting at all to place club partners above Impact employees, volunteer or paid but they as well are another group of hapless victims. Those travelling to Houston will have an easier time dealing with last night than those who will have gathered at Impact pubs, cafés or even in each others homes to take in what came billed as an historic moment for the Impact, their employer. How shell-shocked are each of them as they arrived into their offices at Stade Saputo Friday morning? Wonder what their conversation round the ample water coolers was? I bet none are on 2014 Season Ticket drives. Yet another opportunity cost of 90 minutes in Houston Hell. The League will demand and receive all the answers they require. Newly minted VP of Operations and Security Ray Whitworth just witnessed quite the baptism of fire. As he took in the match, Whitworth more than anyone else would have been fully aware of the quite explosive potential attached to Romero and Di Vaios actions. Mercifully unlike Whiworths native England - which gave birth tto football hooliganism - the English disease has not migrated across the Atlantic.dddddddddddd At least not yet. Imagine for one moment Thursday night was a crucial West Ham vs Millwall encounter, one made all the more incendiary as it welcomed in a night time sky. There would be still be fires smouldering in Houston as its health services continued the enormous task of saving limbs, if not precious life itself. MLSs Peter Walton, another veteran of the English trenches, in his role as GM of the Professional Referee Organization has a sizable task ahead of him. What will the MLS Disciplinary Committee be munching on as they eat their muesli for breakfast this morning? Many across the Impacts micro and macro worlds will find opportunity here to bring to task Impact President Joey Saputo. Some will lay the 90 minutes of Houston Hell blame fully at him. As you do, remember it was Saputo who made the decision to commit the significant money the club made available this time last year so as to be in place to significantly upgrade the 2012 talent pool. In addition to that, consider the millions of dollars of red ink hemorrhaging from the 2012 accounts. Saputo also placed significant personal money to the 2013 cause. It was the Impact Class of 2013 who took to the pitch last night. Not Saputo. Nor the stadium that bares the holding company name. More opportunity cost when factoring in the money now swirling around MLS naming rights deals. Saputo will be inconsolable right now. Not only in his role as club president, but as a fan. No one lives, breathes and kicks the Impact quite like him. There was though some comfort for me to be found from last night. Ill take any crumb under these conditions and circumstances. They actually come from what wasnt. Reading between the lines as Dickens may have uttered. One comes in the considerable global football force that is Alessandro Nesta. Mercifully spared from anything connected to last night by injury, or more likely the toll of multiple injuries in a quite all together remarkable career which spawned into life as an eight-year old in a Roman suburb. Di Vaio a teammate. That and the pending birth of a third child down in Miami rendered Nesta un-travelable. The other comfort comes in the quite considerable form of IMFC original MLS homeboy, Patrice Bernier. Yes he travelled, made it to the bench but was spared the embarrassment of being one of that final whistle gang of eight. Bernier has been playing through the pain barrier just as the Impacts season began taking the shape of a pear. We dont need to remind you how Berniers star has shone since December 2011, when on a wet and windy Monday morning the media gathered at the Impacts then downtown offices as club president welcomed the Brossard native back into the Impact bosom. Not content with personal accolades in the form of 2012 MVP the man elevated his game this season. Then factor in he was asked (or was it told) to play and perform to his high standards in a most unfamiliar role by his new head coach. I wont claim to know Bernier, Im still coming to terms with myself. But what I do know is what I have witnessed first-hand on and off the Impact pitch. I dont need to get into what I have been told. From my lookout post - which extends all the way back to them Claude Robillard days - Bernier has been the exception to the football rule. Ooze the stuff he does, the utter personification of class. Something totally lacking from his club last night Bernier, as Nesta, will both feel immense guilt by association. With no word on any contract extension seeping from Saputo Stadium as the focus was four square on Di Vaio - if Im Berniers agent, hometown discount has just been taking off the table. What will be on the minds of Impact Legends this morning? Especially the class of 94, those the club paid a terrific tribute to as part of the ceremony introducing the 2013 version. All season long we witnessed wonderful pre match scenes as those most deserving which helped build the club towards its MLS moment, were introduced to supporters many of whom not even born during those halcyon Claude Robillard days. Somewhere, Jesse Marsch is getting his laughter on. Change of Coach? Change of culture needed more like. More on the Impact - TSN 690 Saturday morning during a special edition of oranges @ halftime - Pulp Free, Freshness Guaranteed. Kick Off at 10am et/7am pt Listen Live: TSN690.ca You can reach and follow Noel Butler at:Noel.Butler@BellMedia.ca @TheSoccerNoel on Twitter cheap jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys ' ' '
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