Elks snap playoff drought with win over Stampeders

Joe Robustelli caught a pair of touchdown passes as the Edmonton Elks clinched a playoff berth for the first time since 2019 with a 53-16 rout over the rival Calgary Stampeders in the Labour Day rematch on Saturday. Edmonton, which won its fourth game in a row to improve to 10-3, ended its longest post-season drought in club history, snapping a five-year run of futility that was their worst since the 1960s. The Stampeders, who allowed the Elks to score 24 fourth-quarter points last week en route to a 38-28 victory in the Labour Day Classic in Calgary, have lost…