Power rankings

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This article was published 14/07/2009 (5931 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.

Power rankings

One man’s totally subjective rankings of the eight CFL teams after Week 2 of the season (last week’s rank in parenthesis):

1. (1) MONTREAL ALOUETTES (2-0) — They’ve now outscored two West Division playoff squads — Calgary and Edmonton — by a combined total of 90-43. Simply dominant.

2. (2) SASKATCHEWAN ROUGHRIDERS (2-0) — Opened up a big barrel of whup-ass on the Argos in The Big Smoke on the weekend.

3. (7) WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS (1-1) — Beat up the champion Stamps and are a positive arrow pointing upwards.

4. (3) CALGARY STAMPEDERS (0-2) — They’ve got some serious problems, yes, but once they get out of the muck and start rolling, look out.

5. (4) EDMONTON ESKIMOS (1-1) — Had some warts exposed in Montreal by the Alouettes.

6. (8) HAMILTON TIGER-CATS (1-1) — We need more evidence, but that win in Vancouver was pretty compelling.

7. (6) TORONTO ARGONAUTS (1-1) — Tough crew to read. They show flashes of brilliance, but longer blips of pure ugliness.

8. (5) B.C. LIONS (0-2) — Don’t expect them to be here for long, but the first two weeks have been awful.

Juicy number — 1-20

THE record for teams from the eastern time zone in Vancouver against the Lions dating back to 2004. The Ticats broke a 20-game losing skid by Hamilton, Toronto and Montreal and Ottawa with Friday’s 31-28 victory.

FYI

LIONS head coach Wally Buono remains stuck at 227 wins — four short of the CFL record held by Don Matthews… Saskatchewan’s 30 points in the second quarter of last week’s win over Toronto was the second-most ever put up in franchise history. The Riders scored 31 points in a 40-16 win over Edmonton on Oct. 17, 2004… Toronto has resurrected the career of long-snapper Randy Srochenski — again. The 36-year-old was summoned out of retirement from his gig as the pastor of the Niagara Celebration Church in St. Catharines when projected snapper Steven Schmidt was injured… Here’s Eskimo linebacker Maurice Lloyd on what was missing in their blowout loss in Montreal, stating there was a “lack of focus, lack of effort, missed tackles, missed assignments, blown assignments, lack of fundamentals. Lack of everything you could lack.”… Most overused cliché early in the season, particularly in Calgary and B.C: ‘It’s now how you start, it’s how you finish.’… The B.C. secondary has taken to calling themselves The Hyenas this year. “If we’re all together there’s no animal or beast that wants to take on six or seven hyenas, not even lions,” Korey Banks told The Province in Vancouver. Added Barron Miles: “If you watch Animal Kingdom, when there’s four of five hyenas together, they’re eating lion babies.”

Say what?!

“We’re not just fat guys who fall on people.” — Lions centre Angus Reid in a story on the collective intelligence of the offensive line.