With Ottawa Fury FC officially eliminated from playoff contention, don't expect head coach Marc Dos Santos to turn his club's remaining three games into a season-ending training camp.

Fury is still fighting to finish ahead of FC Edmonton -- Ottawa's opponent Saturday afternoon at TD Place -- and Dos Santos isn't going to start experimenting or giving extra minutes to lesser-used players just out of the kindness of his heart.

Aside from bringing a couple new players to training as tryouts for next season, Dos Santos sees no need to audition players he is already familiar with.

"It's not that approach," he said. "If I'm telling you 'yeah, we want to evaluate guys', I'm lying to you.

"I think we have our answers already."

After dropping a 2-1 decision to the New York Cosmos on the road last weekend thanks to another goal conceded at the death, Dos Santos expects his squad to compete the way it did while still in the playoff hunt and, as has become his mantra, to treat the remaining three games as championship finals.

"There's no doubt that (beating Edmonton) is very important," Dos Santos said. "It's also difficult because we have three tough games."

Whichever of the two Canadian NASL clubs finishes higher on the league table gets to host the second leg of the Canadian Championship next season.

As for the new trialists in camp this week, both players that Ottawa could try to sign in the off-season. Left back Marcos Ramos is the bigger name of the two as he is armed with 100-plus games in France's League 1. Fury has also brought in forward Laurent Lanteri, who most recently played for Italian third-division club Paganese while on loan from Serie B club Siena.

SIDELINES

Fury FC will be without the services of Brazilian forward Oliver indefinitely after he was elbowed in the face by Danny Szetela in New York last weekend. Fury was angry it resulted in only a yellow card for Szetela and has asked the league to review the play ... Fury will also be without striker Tommy Heinemann Saturday as the striker was sent off on two yellow cards late in the loss to the Cosmos ... After giving birth to a baby girl Thursday, Fury captain Richie Ryan will be back in the lineup Saturday after missing the Cosmos game when it was thought the birth was imminent. Ryan's replacement in the game, midfielder Mauro Eustaquio, is currently out with a hamstring injury but could be available off the bench Saturday.

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