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If you break the CFL season up into thirds, it’s easy to draw the conclusion that whatever happens in the Calgary Stampeders’ next six games will go a long way towards determining where they finish at the end of the year.

In an 18-game season, every game counts, of course.

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But with three games against the Edmonton Eskimos and a matchup with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on August 8, the Stampeders have head-to-head games against the two teams they’ll most likely be fighting with for the right to host playoff games.

“Obviously, we’re right there with them right now as far as the top teams in the West,” said Stampeders head coach Dave Dickenson. “So it’ll make or break us whether we have a good year, standings-wise, whether we can have a winning record against those teams.”

The Stampeders are well aware of what lies ahead on the schedule, but never treated the beginning of August as the point in the season where they wanted to have everything clicking.