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Olivier Goulet-Veilleux will almost certainly watch the Ottawa Redblacks’ Thursday’ game against the Montreal Alouettes on television.

He watched a video replay of the last Redblacks-Alouettes contest in Montreal on June 30, too.

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“It was a helluva a game,” Goulet-Veilleux said, “and there was a lot of intensity for both teams.”

Yes, but there was also a terribly unfortunate development that took the 25-year-old from the Université de Sherbrooke from the middle of the action to a hospital bed to emotional uncertainty of knowing his Canadian Football League season was over, but not whether he’d play football again.

He says he will.

“Yeah, of course,” Goulet-Veilleux said in a telephone interview from Sherbrooke, home base for his continued recovery from surgery to repair his broken left tibia and fibula.

“It was like a dream come true for me just to play two or three games. I was doing the right things with the team and I know I have my place in the CFL. I know that I can play. But football and injuries go along (together), so I can’t do anything about that.”