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BLUE MOUNTAIN, Ont — All anyone in the CFL can really do about the XFL is wait and see how it plays out.

Rival leagues have come and gone over the years in the U.S., and nobody in the Canadian game is worried about the XFL taking all the best non-NFL players and somehow destabilizing the CFL.

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Salaries are higher in Canada and it will be a long time before the XFL can convince everyone that they have the stability the CFL does.

But at the ground level, the XFL’s looming kickoff is having an impact this off-season.

“I think you’re seeing less players available,” said Saskatchewan Roughriders head coach Craig Dickenson. “There’d be more guys out there we’d be looking to bring in (if it weren’t for the XFL), but all of that has kind of already happened. If a guy is going to the XFL, he’s already there so we’re not competing for that guy.

“But yes, if there was no XFL there’d be a lot more players you’d be looking at to bring into rookie camp and workout this off-season. We’ll see how it goes. They’re playing games here pretty soon and I wish those guys the best. The more football there is, the better.”