Riders Win, Miss Playoffs, Make Trades
The never-ending training camp called the 2016 CFL season came to an official end for the Saskatchewan Roughriders on Thanksgiving. They were officially eliminated when the Edmonton Eskimos beat the Montreal Alouettes.
Even if the Riders win all their remaining games and Edmonton loses their remaining games, Edmonton still finishes ahead of the Riders because they won the season series. The crossover doesn’t apply because the Riders would still have to finish ahead of Edmonton and there is only one crossover spot that would be available.
So the Riders managed to beat Ottawa 32-30 despite Nic Demski dropping everything but the girl in a game that shouldn’t have been that close.
However, as the Riders continue to fine-tune their team, on Thanksgiving Monday they swung a trade with with Justin Capicciotti and Xavier Fulton going to Hamilton in exchange for Lindon Gaydosh, Tommy Streeter and a fourth and seventh round draft pick.