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SURREY, B. Eric Decker White Jersey .C. -- Beating the Montreal Alouettes in the final game of the season means almost as much to B.C. Lions defensive back Tad Kornegay as securing first place in the CFL West. Kornegay has some bad history with Montreal. Twice the former Saskatchewan Roughrider lost to the Alouettes in the Grey Cup, once in a game decided by a penalty for too many men on the field. Thats why Kornegay wants to settle some old scores when the Lions (10-7) face the Alouettes (10-7) tonight at BC Place Stadium. You can watch the game live on TSN, beginning at 10pm et/7pm pt. You can also watch the game on TSN Mobile TV. "Its personal to me," Kornegay said Friday after the Lions held a brief practice at their training facility. "I cant deny that. I lost two Grey Cups, back to back to them. There is going to be a little more emotion for me this week. Its something I will have to control. I have to focus on winning this game so we can finish off in first place." The Lions and Montreal can both finish first in their divisions. The Alouettes fate could be decided even before kickoff. The Lions, who started the season 0-5, must win to finish first for the first time since 2007. B.C. would host the West Final a week before the Grey Cup game is played in Vancouver. The Lions could also slip to third place and begin the playoffs on the road. The Edmonton Eskimos used a 23-20 win over the Saskatchewan Roughriders Friday night to improve their record to 11-7 and move into first place in the West. The Calgary Stampeders (10-7) host the Winnipeg Blue Bombers (10-7) on Saturday afternoon. If B.C. finishes tied with Edmonton or Calgary, the Lions would be seeded higher because they won both season series. If the Lions lose and the Stampeders win, B.C. finishes third. Quarterback Travis Lulay said the Lions have to focus on themselves. "Its a bit of a waste of energy worrying about what happens in the two games before," said Lulay, who has thrown for 4,535 yards and 28 touchdowns in his first full season as a starter. "Thats completely out of our control. The only thing we can control is how we prepare and how we play against Montreal. Thats where 100 per cent of our focus has gone." The Alouettes, who have lost their last two games, need the Stampeders to beat Winnipeg for a chance to finish first in the East for the fifth time in sixth years. Quarterback Anthony Calvillo said Montreal doesnt have much room for error. "This whole year has been tough," said Calvillo. "You just cannot afford to make too many mistakes. "Offensively, when you go back to the losses that we had, there were maybe five or six guys making two to three mistakes each, myself included. Its costing us. Going into this last game we just cannot have that any more. Were so close." Slotback Jamel Richardson, who leads the league with 1,772 yards and 11 touchdowns on 110 catches, said the Als cant afford three losses heading into the playoffs. "We look at every game as a must win," said Richardson, who set a CFL record last week with his 12th 100-yard game in a single season. "We are going out there and play every game to win. We want to get this victory going into the playoffs and stay on a high note." The Lions need to control Calvillo to beat Montreal. The 38-year-old veteran leads the league with 5,188 yards passing and 32 touchdowns. During the season he broke records for career touchdown passes, passing yards and completions. "With A.C., he is going to get his plays and he is going to get his completions," Lions head coach/GM Wally Buono said. "You have to make sure that after the catch there isnt a whole lot more yards. "The other big thing is making sure the ball isnt going to be thrown over your head." Montreal beat B.C. 30-26 back in Week 1. Vancouver hasnt been friendly to the Alouettes. Montreal is 1-9 in B.C. dating back to 2001 with the Lions outscoring them 328-223. Calvillo takes comfort in the fact Montreal did beat B.C. 16-12 last year in a game played at Empire Field, the temporary facility the Lions used while BC Place was being refurbished. "I do believe the last three years we made some major steps forward," Calvillo said when interviewed at a downtown Vancouver hotel. "We did win last year. We had great chances to win the years before that. We are heading in the right direction. This week is going to be another opportunity for us to go out there and prove to ourselves and everyone else we can come out there and win on the road." After getting off to a horrible start the Lions have gone 9-1. Defensive back Korey Banks said first place wasnt on anybodys mind when the team was still struggling for that first win. "When we won that first one ... we released we are a good football team," he said. "Before you find out what kind of team you have, you have to go through controversy. We went through all the controversy you can possibly go through. Everything was going against us. We kept willing our way to get everyone on the same page. Guys started peaking and playing together." The Lions have been riding a wave for three months. Lulay doesnt want to see that crash in final regular-season game. "This is the point of the season where you want to gain momentum," he said. "You want to be playing your best football now. Going into the playoffs its important for us to go out and play well. We are playing the two-time defending champions. We have to play a good football game." http://www.nfljetsus.com/Womens-Geno-Smith-Authentic-Jersey/ . The 29-year-old native of Quebec City was selected in the sixth round, 47th overall, by Winnipeg in the 08 CFL draft after playing collegiately at Sherbrooke. Jace Amaro Jersey . A-Rod is also disqualified from any post-season play. So at the tender age of 38, he will miss all of next season. As a result of missing the coming season, hes also out $25 million (which coincidentally is my hourly rate).TORONTO -- Already exhausted following a long road trip and playing the second half of back-to-back games, the last thing the Toronto Maple Leafs was another emotional pitfall. Coach Randy Carlyle had already caused a stir in Detroit a night earlier by calling James Reimers play in a loss "just OK," and then the goaltender gave up a goal on the first shot he faced Wednesday against the Tampa Bay Lightning. Unfortunately for the Leafs, that was just the beginning of a long game as defenceman Paul Ranger was injured and Steven Stamkos rang up a hat trick to hand them a 5-3 loss at Air Canada Centre, their third in a row. Even after the club released an update saying Ranger was "stable, conscious and alert" after his head hit the glass on a hit from Alex Killorn and he was taken to a local hospital, there were plenty of worried teammates in the home locker-room after a defeat that dropped the Leafs three points behind the Lightning in the Atlantic Division. With that came a notion of missing an opportunity to make something out of the impossibly difficult situation of seeing Ranger go down. "You try to use that as motivation to go out there and give yourself the best opportunity to get a chance and try to use the player, Range, get it for him," Carlyle said. "And we fell short, for sure." Against the Lightning (38-24-7), falling short meant starting terribly with a goal against 59 seconds in, taking too many penalties and giving Stamkos far too much room to operate. But Killorns hit on Ranger understandably took the lions share of the attention. Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper called it "probably the turning point in the game" as his team killed off the five-minute major, while the Leafs (36-27-8) just struggled to pick their game up after watching him get wheeled off the ice on a stretcher. "We say our jobs to get ready and prepare for the next period, but thats scary," winger Joffrey Lupul said. "He obviously didnt look great when he was leaving the ice. So youre trying to clear your head and focus on the next period. But you cant lie -- obviously part of you is wondering whats going on with him." When Ranger went down, the Leafs were trailing 3-2 after Radko Gudas beat Reimer in the games first minute with a seemingly innocent shot from just inside the blue-line. Reimer didnt see the shot, and long after his Leafs came back to take the lead on goals by Phil Kessel and Nikolai Kulemin, Carlyle didnt blame his goalie for that one. "The first goals kind of (a) fluke," Carlyle said. "What do you do? Its a seeing-eye shot, theres a screen, it hits a post and goes in. So you cant get too unravelled by that." Reimer, who gave up five goals on 30 shots, didnt unravel, but a lack of discipline and the Leafs defence was to blame for Stamkos scoring twice in the first period and then completing the hat trick early in the second. An interference penalty on David Clarkson led to the first goal, and there were missed assignments on all three. For Stamkos, who was playing in just his seventh game since returning from a four-month absence after breaking his right leg, called getting the natural hat trick in front of family and friends the highlight of his season. "I was a little disappointed there was no hats on the ice," the Markham, Ont., native said. "I guess Ill take it anyway." Though he couldnt be blamed for any of the three goals Stamkos scored, Reimer couldnt take many positives out of his performance. Because Jonathan Bernier remains out with a groin injury, Reimer became the first Toronto goalie to start on back-to-back days this season, and this wasnt the result he wanted when thrust into that situation. "I just want to come out and play well and kind of be a difference-maker, and unfortunately it wasnt the case," Reimer said. Calvin Pryor Black Jersey. "I thought I made some good saves, but it definitely wasnt the performance I was looking for. I wanted to come out and be big and keep your team in it, and that didnt happen tonight." Reimers failings, notably on the first goal, paled in comparison to the other drama and blunders that tormented the Leafs against the Lightning. Six minor penalties led to two power-play goals by the Lightning -- the first by Stamkos and the second one in the third from linemate Tyler Johnson -- which wound up being enough to make the difference. "A lot of things come down to special teams," Cooper said. "Weve had our ups and downs all year. For us to kill off all those penalties, especially the five minutes and then get two power-play goals. Thats how youre going to win. Thats how youre going to win down the stretch and get into the playoffs." With the victory, the Lightning, who got 36 saves on 39 shots from Vezina Trophy candidate Ben Bishop, moved ahead of the Montreal Canadiens for second place in the Atlantic Division. The Leafs, who at 71 games have played the most of any team in the Eastern Conference, held onto the first wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference but lost a major opportunity to pick up points. Reimer lamented not doing that more than being unable to cover up the fire storm that surrounded him. "It doesnt really matter how you play or how people talk about how you play as long as you get points," he said. "As tough as things go or as good as things go, you can play a great game and still lose. The big thing is points, so as far as statement games or whatnot, I think really at this time of year its just about your team and about getting your team points, not necessarily about you making a statement." Stamkos, who scored his three goals on his only three shots of the night, made a statement that hes back and capable of carrying the Lightning. Cooper was looking forward to seeing how the 24-year-old would fare in his "backyard," and he didnt disappoint. "Theres special players out there that find a way, they have that innate ability to rise to the occasion," Cooper said. "For Stammer to come back in here to his hometown and do what he did tonight, basically put the team on his shoulders, I cant say enough about (him)." And the Leafs couldnt say enough about how things went wrong, especially when it came to not containing one of the leagues best in Stamkos. "We were getting exposed," Lupul said. "There were times today where we were good, other times we made some errors getting the puck out of our zone, once by me and then a couple times we let their best player get the puck in an area where we cant do that." And then there was a lack of desperation early on that only came in the second half of the game and showed up when Jake Gardiner cut the deficit to one with 12:40 left. Giving half of what was necessary was not enough. "I felt that our desperation level went up for the last 30 minutes of the game," Carlyle said. "Weve got to do a better job than that." NOTES -- Kessels goal was his 35th of the season, two short of his career high. ... Gardiners goal was his fifth in the past seven games and 10th of the season. ... Killorn was given a game misconduct along with the five-minute major for boarding Ranger, whom the Leafs said was taken to a hospital for a "precautionary assessment." ... Toronto goaltender Jonathan Bernier skated Wednesday morning for the first time since suffering a groin injury almost a week earlier in Los Angeles. Carlyle said Bernier was "coming along" and he expected the injured netminder to take shots during practice Friday. ' ' '