TORONTO — It’s Week 19 of the CFL’s 2016 season and with just two weeks left of the regular season, teams still in the playoff hunt are fighting for position in their respective divisions.

It all starts on Friday night in Hamilton when the Tiger-Cats play host to the Edmonton Eskimos. After keeping their hopes of the East Division crown alive with an overtime win against the REDBLACKS last week, the Tabbies will have their star quarterback back in the lineup to continue that push. After missing two games with a concussion, Zach Collaros returns to the huddle this week to lead the Ticats’ offence. The Eskimos, meanwhile, are boasting their own superb offence, including the one-two punch of receivers Adarius Bowman and Derel Walker led by quarterback Mike Reilly. The Ticats’ defence will have to be on their toes if they want to stop the league’s second leading passer from finding his targets. The matchup may also be a playoff preview, has the Esks currently sit in the crossover spot.

The action then moves to Winnipeg on Saturday where the REDBLACKS take on the Bombers. Both teams will be looking for the two points to keep position in their divisions. Winnipeg sits in second place in the West but is tied in points with the Lions while Ottawa sits just single point ahead of the Tiger-Cats for first place in the East. Ottawa’s offence is Henry Burris’ for the keeping, after two solid starts over the last two weeks. He’ll have to be smart with the football when facing Winnipeg’s defence – they lead the league in interceptions with 28 – after throwing two picks last week against the Ticats.

In the second half of Saturday’s doubleheader, the Lions take a trip to Mosaic in the Riders’ final home game at the historic stadium. The Riders had their three game winning streak snapped last week, as Darian Durant’s offence had a challenge getting on the same page. The contest is the first half of a home-and-home with the clubs to end the regular season as the Lions are hoping to catch Bombers for second place in the West. Saskatchewan’s defence will have their hands full trying to contain Jon Jennings and his receivers – most notably Emmanuel Arceneaux who scored two touchdowns last week.

And finally, the Montreal Alouettes welcome the Calgary Stampeders on Sunday afternoon. The Stampeders are chasing history this week, as a win on Sunday would set a new CFL record for most consecutive games won to end a season at 15. Bo Levi Mitchell and co. have not lost since Week 1 and will be looking to keep that stat alive with a win over the Alouettes. The Als, meanwhile, had their losing skid snapped with a stellar performance from their rookie quarterback Vernon Adams Jr., who threw for 177 yards, one touchdown and one interception last week. Montreal will lean on the rookie once again this week as they hope to be the ones to snap the Stampeders’ streak.

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» Friday, 7:00 p.m. ET: Edmonton at Hamilton
» Saturday, 4:00 p.m. ET: Ottawa at Winnipeg
» Saturday, 7:00 p.m. ET: BC at Saskatchewan
» Sunday, 1:00 p.m. ET: Calgary at Montreal

THIS WEEK IN THE CFL

End of an era: This game will be the final one ever played at the Park de Young/Taylor Field/Mosaic Stadium site. There have been 610 regular season Riders home games (since 1936 as part of the WIFU-CFL) and 661 home games total with the addition of games from the club’s amateur days with the Western Canada Rugby Football Union (1910-1935).

Week 19’s game against the BC Lions will be regular season game #611 as part of the WIFU-CFL. The Riders have also played 50 home playoff games at the site since 1936, as well as the 2013 Grey Cup.

Including the games from the amateur era, there have been 712 games at this site.

With a sellout in their final home game, the total attendance for all Rider home games since the start of the 1958 season (the extent of the CFL’s verifiable attendance figures) will exceed 11.6 million fans.

Mosaic crowds have led the CFL in average home attendance in 2013 (37,503) and 2016 (31,065) and have averaged 30,000+ fans in each of the last eight years.

Since the professional football era began for the Riders in 1936 (610 games played), their home record at Mosaic is 329-268-13. In that time they have scored 1,557 touchdowns at Mosaic.

The first professional home game in the WIFU-CFL was played on September 12, 1936 against Winnipeg. Attendance was 4000 (as reported by the Regina Leader-Post), and Regina won the game 8-7 with starting quarterback Jim Lander.

The first Riders touchdown came in the second quarter of that game from Fritz Falgren on the recovery of a Louis Chumich blocked punt. The longest home winning streak was 13 games (October 1967-September 1969). In 1968 the Roughriders achieved a perfect season at home: 8-0.

Their biggest wins at the site came on September 3, 1995 (56-4) and on September 2, 2012 (52-0) – both against Winnipeg.

The Winnipeg Blue Bombers have been the most frequent guests, visiting 129 times. In Saskatchewan-Winnipeg contests at Mosaic, Saskatchewan owns the record 62-54-3.

Gene Makowsky has played the most games at Taylor Field/Mosaic Stadium with 142 (1995-2011). Ron Lancaster has played the fourth-highest amount of games (127), and the most games started at QB (122, for a record of 81-35-6).

Current QB Darian Durant has started the second-most amount of games at QB with 59 (35-24-0).

Season of the receiver: Through 18 weeks, a trio of receivers have reached the 100-reception mark: Adarius Bowman (116), Derel Walker (102) and Andy Fantuz (101).

Three receivers have reached 100 receptions twice in CFL history: in 1994 (Allen Pitts with 126, Darren Flutie with 111 and Gerald Wilcox with 111) and 1995 (Don Narcisse with 123, Dave Sapunjis with 111 and Allen Pitts with 100).

There have never been FOUR receivers in the same season with 100+ receptions. However, with two games left in each of their seasons, Emmanuel Arceneaux (91), Nik Lewis (90) and Brad Sinopoli (85) each have a chance to reach the century mark.

Calgary’s DaVaris Daniels has 47 receptions for 849 yards and nine touchdowns in only 10 games this season. If Daniels accumulates 151 yards in his final game of the season, he would set a new record for the fewest games needed to reach 1,000 receiving yards in a season at 11.

The all-time CFL record for fewest games played by a 1,000-yard receiver is 12, held by four players: Derel Walker (2015), Morris Bailey (1950), Red O’Quinn (1995) and Al Pfeifer (1995).

There are now 10 1,000 yard receivers this year in the CFL, with four more players knocking on the door: Nik Lewis (975), Terrence Toliver (965), Brad Sinopoli (963) and Kenny Shaw (960).

Bowman and Walker became the second pair of receivers to each have 100 receptions in the same year. Allen Pitts and Dave Supunjis first accomplished the feat for Calgary in 1995. Bowman has 40 second down conversion catches this season, one off the record held by Jamel Richardson (41) set in 2011.

400+ passing yards: REDBLACKS QB and 2015 Most Outstanding Player Henry Burris threw for a Week 18 high of 418 yards last week in the 39-36 OT loss to Hamilton. The effort gave Burris 17 career games of 400+ yards and the #5 all-time ranking:

Calvillo and Flutie are tied for the league lead with 29 games of 400+ passing yards – however, Flutie accomplished it with 151 fewer starts. In Flutie’s 126 starts he passed for 400+ yards 23% of the time.

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WEEK 19 GAME NOTES

Extra football: Last week’s Ottawa-Hamilton bout was the eighth overtime game of the 2016 season. That matched the CFL record for most in one year set in 1992 and tied in 2002.

Tackle race: Montreal’s Bear Woods (119) and BC’s Solomon Elimimian (118) will contend to see who ends up with the season tackle crown. Adam Bighill joined the 100 tackle club for the third time in his career and helped the BC Lions become the first team in CFL history to have two players in the same season each reach 100+ tackles.

Stampede city: Calgary now owns the second-longest unbeaten streak in the CFL at 16 games (15-0-1). They trail only the 1948-1949 Calgary team, who had 22 games between losses. Calgary can tie the 1989 Edmonton Eskimos (16-2) for most wins by a CFL team in a single season with a win on Sunday. A Stampeder win on Sunday would also establish a new CFL record for most consecutive games won to end a season at 15.

Lewis going up: Nik Lewis has 90 catches this year and 965 for his career. He is now only one back of Allen Pitts at #5 all-time with 966 and seven back of #4 Darren Flutie at 972.

Kicking his way into history: Justin Medlock is four field goals short of tying Dave Ridgeway’s record of 59 in a single season. Medlock has made 55 of 63 field goals (87.3%) with his longest being 58. He went a perfect 7/7 versus BC in Week 17.

Keeping the ball: Calgary has only turned the ball over 22 times this season. If they don’t turn over the ball on Sunday in their final game, they would set a new record, currently held by the 2012 BC Lions squad with 23 total turnovers.

Turnover record: Winnipeg’s +31 turnover ratio is the sixth-best in CFL history.