The last time the Winnipeg Blue Bombers travelled to Montreal they experienced some divine intervention to nail down top spot in the CFL West.

This time they’d just like to get back on the straight and narrow path that eventually leads there.

Thursday’s tilt kicks off the second half of the season for a 5-4 team that’s already had enough ups and downs to make any stomach queasy.

“You’d like to hope that we go on a nice little run here,” running back Brady Oliveira said. “Let’s try and win out. It’s obviously tough. But we’ve done it before… we’ve gone on nice little runs where we’ve won a ton of games in a row. Our focus, which I think is great, is not worrying about the second half of the season. It’s worrying about now, about beating Montreal this week and forgetting about who we play

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