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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMontreal Alouettes quarterback Davis Alexander (10) throws a pass during first half CFL East Final football game action against the Hamilton Tiger Cats, in Hamilton, Ont., Saturday, Nov. 8, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Peter Power<\/p>\n
Since that game, the plan was for Alexander to have up to five treatments per day.<\/p>\n
When asked at Wednesday\u2019s meeting with the media how many treatments he had on Tuesday and what they involved, Alexander said he had five, plus a long one.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome of the treatment, obviously, massage,\u201d he said. \u201cWe do a little bit of stem, I hate stem, but they gave me some stem.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe do some laser stuff, ultrasound stuff and then some strength and activation things.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stem cell therapy for athletes often involves injections of stem cells into an injured area to promote repair of tissues, reduce inflammation and pain and speed up recovery.<\/p>\n
The unbeaten leader said he felt good after practice.<\/p>\n
\u201cBetter than I expected, just because I think I\u2019m finally not sore from the Hamilton game, so that helps a little bit,\u201d Alexander said. \u201cBut I felt great. This is playoff football and I\u2019ll be ready to go.\u201d<\/p>\n
Known for his creativity when he sprints out of the pocket, Alexander said he\u2019s not sure when he\u2019ll try to run.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a checklist that we\u2019re kind of going through as the week\u2019s gone on,\u201d he said. \u201cToday was the first practice, so we felt like Day 1 I was able to check off all the boxes that we want to for Day 1.<\/p>\n
\u201cDay 2 will be a different task, Day 3 will be a different task. Yeah, just keep going from there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Montreal head coach Jason Maas said Alexander moved well in practice.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe looked great to me, better than I thought he would be,\u201d Maas said. \u201cI think he probably felt better than he thought he would, too.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s been a lot of work put into his body already this week and there\u2019s going to be plenty more to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
He reiterated Alexander will play in the Grey Cup.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s going to start, and what I witnessed today, I won\u2019t be surprised that he finishes it, either,\u201d Maas said.<\/p>\n
\u201cTrust me, he\u2019s dealt with what he\u2019s playing with. When he\u2019s started a game, he\u2019s dealt with it throughout the entire game and he doesn\u2019t want to come off the field. So the expectation is, when he starts, he\u2019s going to finish it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Alexander was limited to seven regular-season games in his first full season as Montreal\u2019s starter because of the hamstring injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He heads into the championship game with an 13-0 record as a starter, including a CFL regular-season record of 11-0 that goes back to last year.<\/p>\n
McLeod Bethel-Thompson is the backup for the club that went 10-8 through the regular season.<\/p>\n
Linemen update<\/p>\n
Montreal offensive left guard Pier-Olivier Lestage missed the East final because of a neck injury.<\/p>\n
He was on the field Wednesday and Maas was thinking positive about his return.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s healing. It seemed to be much better this week,\u201d Maas said. \u201cThe expectation for us is that he\u2019ll play.\u201d<\/p>\n
Defensive lineman Mustafa Johnson (shoulder) was also practising.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s going to be a kind of game-time decision,\u201d Maas said.<\/p>\n
Wait and see<\/p>\n
Receiver Austin Mack was limited at practice.<\/p>\n
Mack said he re-injured his leg late in the Hamilton game. It was the same leg that kept him out of six regular-season games.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 12, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG \u2013 From lasers to stem cell therapy, no treatment is being spared for injured Montreal Alouettes starting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-280266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-canadian-football-league","11":"tag-canadianfootballleague","12":"tag-cfl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}