Bombers shuffle roster ahead of home game

Posted: 12:23 PM CDT Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011

The Winnipeg Blue Bombers players are on holidays this week, but the front office has been busy with a couple of minor player moves.

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The Winnipeg Blue Bombers players are on holidays this week, but the front office has been busy with a couple of minor player moves.

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The Winnipeg Blue Bombers players are on holidays this week, but the front office has been busy with a couple of minor player moves.

The Bombers announced this morning that they have added Canadian fullback Michel-Pierre Pontbriand to their practice roster, while Canadian offensive lineman Brendan Dunn has been dropped from the practice roster and will head back to university this fall.

Pontbriand (28 years old, 6-2, 227 pounds) won a national championship in 2006 with Laval. More recently, Pontbriand was the special teams captain for Team Canada at the 2011 IFAF Senior World Championship of American Football. Canada won silver at the event, which was held last month in Vienna, Austria.

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Michel-Pierre Pontbriand, seen here celebrating a 2006 Vanier Cup victory for Laval University Rouge et Or's, will join the Blue Bombers. — Geoff Howe / The Canadian Press Archives Michel-Pierre Pontbriand, seen here celebrating a 2006 Vanier Cup victory for Laval University Rouge et Or's, will join the Blue Bombers.

Dunn, an offensive lineman at the University of Western Ontario, was the Bombers third-round pick (17th overall) at the 2011 CFL Canadian Draft.

The Bombers have a bye on the CFL schedule this week and do not return to action until Aug. 26, when they play the Hamilton Tiger-Cats at Canad Inns Stadium.

The Bombers announced this morning that fewer than 1,000 tickets remain for the Aug. 26 game. It would be the third consecutive Bombers sellout at Canad Inns Stadium, with a fourth expected for the Banjo Bowl Sept. 11 against the Saskatchewan Roughriders. The Bombers say only a handful of tickets still remain for the Banjo Bowl.