{"id":465527,"date":"2026-02-10T09:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T09:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/465527\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T09:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T09:19:08","slug":"grey-cup-finalists-mace-maas-named-as-finalists-for-cfls-coach-of-the-year-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/465527\/","title":{"rendered":"Grey Cup finalists Mace, Maas named as finalists for CFL&#8217;s coach of the year hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TORONTO \u2014 Corey Mace of the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Jason Maas of the Montreal Alouettes are again the finalists for the CFL\u2019s coach of the year award.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The CFL made the announcement Monday. Voting for the honour was conducted by the Football Reporters of Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The award will be presented March 25 in Edmonton ahead of the league\u2019s annual national combine. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Saskatchewan defeated Montreal 25-17 in the Grey Cup in November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Mace led Saskatchewan to a CFL-best 12-6 regular-season record in 2025 and is an award finalist for the second straight year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Maas, who was named the league\u2019s top coach in 2024, guided Montreal to a 10-8 record and fourth straight playoff appearance last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Hugh Campbell Distinguished Leadership Award will also be presented at the combine, as will the inaugural Ted Goveia Football Operations Award, named after the former Hamilton Tiger-Cats general manager who died Sept. 12 of throat cancer at age 55.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The award will recognize club football operations personnel for outstanding achievement in scouting, player identification, roster building and leadership.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 9, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Corey Mace of the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Jason Maas of the Montreal Alouettes are again the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,4852,82],"class_list":["post-465527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-human-interest","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465527","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=465527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}