For me, as a guy from Burnaby, I think this game is a little more special. When I was growing, we had season tickets for BC Place for a long time and I played a couple of championship games on the field there.

Growing up, it was always my dream to play in BC Place and to be a professional football player. To be on the field on Saturday and to know there’s a kid out there like I was once watching me . . . it’s like the roles are reversed. It’s going to be a good time.

The new-look BC Place looks awesome. It looks way better than it did. It was getting a little dumpy and a little old and I think they’ve done a great job. It looks like a big-time stadium now.

This is obviously a big game for us and we just have to do what we did last week and that’s practise with a tonne of energy and then bring that to the game. I think if you watched our practices last week, compared to the weeks of practice before, the amount of energy and the amount of fun we were having was way up all week.

If we can keep that up and if we can repeat that recipe, I think we’ll have a lot of success in the last five games.

I think that energy comes in part from the fact everyone was disappointed with the result in Moncton. As a team, we just said, “Look, we’ve got to back to having fun and we’ve got to fly around the field.”

If we do those things, we’ll be a great defence but if we loaf around the field and we don’t play excited, then we’ll just be an average defence. I think that, to a man, after the meetings when we came back from Moncton, we all looked at one another and said, “Let’s just go out there and have fun.”

As for myself, I take a lot of pride in my role on special teams. It’s a big part of the game in the CFL. For me, I try to bring it every time I’m on the field so that it’s 100 per cent, full speed. I think the way that we’re practising here with the energy running around the field, that kind of helps me prepare for the game and makes the game easy.

And now that I’m into the late stages of my second season, I just feel more comfortable out there. I feel more relaxed when I’m out on the field and things have slowed down a little bit. I think I’m playing better and I’m ending up in better positions because I’m seeing things better.

Eric Fraser, #7
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