Music: {allcanada} ALS LOOK TO AVENGE LOPSIDED LOSS IN REMATCH WITH STAMPS

MONTREAL - John Hufnagel is no fan of back-to-back games against the same team.

But like all eight Canadian Football League teams this week, his Calgary Stampeders (10-3) will be facing the same opponent for a second straight time, only in his team's case, it is the defending Grey Cup champion Montreal Alouettes (9-4).

The Stampeders drubbed Montreal 46-21 in Calgary last weekend and the Alouettes promise to be especially ready for the return match.

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"I just think the motivational factor is too great," Hufnagel said Sunday. "If you study who wins and who doesn't, I'm sure there's not a whole lot of sweeps in back-to-back series.

"Just take what's happened this week. Hopefully, we can change that."

Thus far, Toronto won in Regina on Saturday after losing at home to Saskatchewan the week before, and on Friday night Hamilton avenged last week's loss to Edmonton.

On Thanksgiving Monday the Alouettes play host to Calgary while later in the day Winnipeg will try to bounce back from a loss to B.C.

The defeat by Saskatchewan, which trails first-place Calgary by two points, gives the Stampeders a chance to take a firm grip on the West Division going into a key meeting next weekend in Regina. The Alouettes are four points up on both Toronto and Hamilton in the East.

"This is always a tough place and I'm sure they'll want to right some wrongs," said Calgary quarterback Henry Burris, who picked apart the Montreal coverage for 412 passing yards and four touchdowns last week. "After the big win by Toronto it has some extra implications for us.

"And hey, what better opportunity but to come and play the Grey Cup champions on their turf and have a chance to put yourself in pole position to win the West as well."

The Alouettes were stunned by the defeat, in which they found themselves down 14-0 after only 6:40 of play following TD passes of 61 yards to Romby Bryant and 100 yards to Ken-Yon Rambo.

The games could well be a preview of this year's Grey Cup game match-up and so far, Calgary has the distinct upper hand. The Alouettes recall that they lost both regular season meetings before losing at home to the Stampeders in the 2008 Grey Cup and that they beat Saskatchewan twice before downing the Roughriders in last year's championship game.

"We have to make sure we play our type of football and let everybody know that we can beat anybody on any given night," said Montreal quarterback Anthony Calvillo. "Right now, Calgary's the only team we haven't done that to.

"But we know it'll be tough. They're a great team."

It will be extra difficult after two key players were injured in Calgary -- centre Paul Lambert who is gone for the season with a torn biceps and kicker Damon Duval, who is out one or two weeks with a sore hamstring. Former guard Luc Brodeur-Jourdain will move in at centre, while Colt David, who attended training camp, won a kicking duel with Sam Swank in practice this week to take Duval's spot.

A bigger concern is their effort and concentration, which they felt was lacking a week ago.

"We didn't compete, we weren't aggressive," said defensive end Anwar Stewart. "I don't know if guys relax, or they think that because we won a championship last year we can just show up and win, but that's not how you want to play.

"We gave up a lot of yards the last two games and that's not us. You've got to have a little pride about putting on the Alouette uniform. I think some guys think it's just a given. It's not, it's something that you earn. You've got to respect the game and respect each team and we didn't do that last week."

The Stampeders were in a similar frame of mind after playing poorly in a 29-10 loss to B.C. the week before, and then stopping their slide with a dominant win over Montreal.

And Burris said he can't wait to play in Percival Molson Stadium, which has expanded by 5,000 seats to 25,012 since last season.

"I love playing here," he said. "It's almost like a party atmosphere the way they pump the crowd up with the music.

"It's the type of atmosphere we grew up with the in the States. Even with the bigger crowd, it doesn't matter. We played here in the Grey Cup in '08 and there were 70,000 people. You look forward to it, especially when you have the two best teams in the league here. It has to bring the best out of you."

Calvillo had three TD passes, but was unable to sustain the clock-eating drives that are his specialty against the Stampeders. He hopes his top downfield targets S.J. Green and Jamel Richardson are able to make more contested catches to help set up the shorter tosses that move the yardsticks.

And he can't forget future Hall of Famer Ben Cahoon, who needs only four catches to pass Terry Vaughn for first place in career receptions with 1,007.

"It's getting closer, but it's premature to talk about it," Cahoon said.

Calgary is also expected to make a change at centre with veteran Rob Lazeo moving in for Tim O'Neill, while Johnnie Dixon takes over at defensive back for Brando Isaac, who is out with a shoulder injury.