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90th Grey Cup. The 90th Grey Cup was the 2002 Canadian Football League championship game played between the Edmonton Eskimos and the Montreal Alouettes on November 24 at Commonwealth Stadium, in Edmonton, Alberta. The Alouettes defeated the Eskimos 25–16 in the first all-Canadian CFL championship game to feature the host team since 1983 .
81st Grey Cup. (CBC) Don Wittman, Joe Galat, Dan Kepley, Brian Williams, Steve Armitage, Kent Austin. The 81st Grey Cup was the 1993 Canadian Football League championship game played between the Edmonton Eskimos and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers at McMahon Stadium in Calgary, Alberta. The Eskimos defeated the Blue Bombers 33–23 to win the Grey Cup .
Commonwealth Stadium in May 2023. / 53.55833°N 113.47500°W / 53.55833; -113.47500. Commonwealth Stadium is an open-air, multipurpose stadium located in the McCauley neighbourhood of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It has a seating capacity of 56,302, making it the largest open-air stadium in Canada.
The game set a Grey Cup attendance record of 68,318 (which still stands as of 2022), even though it was a bitterly cold day and Montreal was in the midst of one of its frequent transit strikes. Local fans led the many football tourists to the game in a march across town, trekking from downtown to the east-end stadium on the morning of the game.
Only one team, the 1970-71 Bruins with record seasons from Phil Esposito and Bobby Orr, had averaged five goals per game. Edmonton did it every season from 1981-86. No one has done it since.
Edmonton was victorious in six of their nine appearances (1975, and five straight from 1978–82). This was the last Grey Cup game played at CNE Stadium prior to its renovations in the mid-1970s in anticipation of receiving a Major League Baseball team in Toronto; it would come in the form of the Blue Jays in 1977 .
In Game 4 on Saturday, with Edmonton’s season on the line, its Oilers’ stars shone the brightest in an 8-1 rout of the Panthers at Rogers Place. Connor McDavid scored his first goal of the ...
The Edmonton Oilers left Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final feeling pretty good. The Oilers weren't shutout Monday night, but the result was the same — another loss, this one putting Edmonton in an ...