The night before Grey Cup 112, the Saskatchewan Roughriders had a team meeting.

At 9 p.m. on Saturday night in Winnipeg, the team gathered for one last time before Sunday’s championship game against the Montreal Alouettes.

And that meeting set the tone for their championship-winning performance less than 24 hours later.

“The first day of training camp, I talked about the identity of who we were supposed to be,” Roughriders head coach Corey Mace said while walking towards the locker room celebrations after his team beat the Alouettes 25-17 for Saskatchewan’s first championship since 2013. “We went through the checklist (Saturday) night and we were exactly that.

“On the very last slide, it said the vision is still to be a team that represents the province of Saskatchewan, and the goal

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