Article content

VANCOUVER — This is how it goes for hard-luck teams that aren’t particularly good — which will turn out to be the Alouettes’ epitaph this season:

On a night when they finally produced some offence — 27 points, albeit only one offensive touchdown — it was the defence, the overworked unit that has been the only thing worth talking about this season, that finally succumbed, which in retrospect was perhaps inevitable.

We apologize, but this video has failed to load.

tap here to see other videos from our team. Try refreshing your browser, or Stark reality setting in for the Alouettes after fading in B.C. twilight zone again Back to video

“It was almost like being in the twilight zone. Nobody has done that to us all year,” middle-linebacker Bear Woods said. “I was scratching my head a few times.

“I would say we laid an egg, starting with myself.”

The Als lost their third consecutive game Friday night, 38-27, to the British Columbia Lions at BC Place. Montreal now has won only twice in 17 years at the domed facility, its personal Bermuda Triangle, and saw its record slip to 3-8 — last in the East Division and ahead of only Saskatchewan in the overall standings. With seven regular-season games remaining, the Als will be pressed to matched last year’s ignominy of 6-12.