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TORONTO — Sorry, R Nation, Canadian Football League awards finalists don’t like your team’s chances in the Grey Cup.

Three of four players attending a media event Wednesday night picked the Calgary Stampeders to defeat the Ottawa Redblacks in the Canadian Football League championship game at BMO Field on Sunday.

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The other, B.C. Lions linebacker Solomon Elimimian, couldn’t be cajoled into offering a prediction, and who, really, would argue with the CFL’s leading tackler about anything of the sort.

“They’re just so consistent,” Hamilton Tiger-Cats returner Brandon Banks said of the Stampeders. “They’re high-powered offensively and have a great coach and have great guys from what I see from the outside looking in.

“I just think Calgary is going to win. I like the underdogs to go in there and upset (them), but, if I had to put my money on it, I’d go Calgary.”

Winnipeg Blue Bombers kicker Justin Medlock, Banks’ counterpart finalist for top special-teams player, favoured the Stamps because their record (16-2-1, including playoffs) was better than the Redblacks’ (9-9-1).