Two of Canada’s top developmental sides had crucial post-season matches Sunday, and both came up short.

And, on Wednesday, the Impact sent Braun home to his home state of Utah.

Saborio blew away the field in the MLS Player of the Week vote, earning 11 of the 16 first-place votes cast.

Woods got both of the markers as the Fury beat Laval 2-1, then scored two more in 10-rout of London, as the Ottawa team continues to be the most dominant team in Canadian women’s club soccer.

Julien, who was part of the Canadian team that finished second at the CONCACAF qualifying tournament in Vancouver, lost her striker’s spot to Jonelle Filigno, who missed Olympic qualifying because of an injury she suffered while playing for Rutgers.

This week, M31, the company which produces the FC Edmonton broadcasts which air live on TEAM 1260 and CBC.ca, confirmed that it has finalized a deal with GolTV Canada which would see all remaining 2012 FCE home broadcasts air on the national soccer specialty channel.

On Tuesday, the club officially made the Ouimette, 19, the second Quebecer to make the MLS squad, and the first player to graduate from the Academy to MLS.

Hamilton FC's Genevieve Richard did to the Ottawa Fury last weekend what no one else could do to that team all throughout the 2011 W-League season.

“The game against the States is not the most important,” said the 29-year-old Brampton native and PSV Eindhoven midfielder in a conference call with reporters on Monday from the Canadian team’s training camp in Sunrise, Fla. “We want to be ready for the qualifying games.”

The warmest BMO welcome will no doubt go to Maurice Edu, who was the club’s first-ever draft pick and won MLS rookie of the year on 2007. He was eventually sold to now-bankrupt Rangers. But BMO Field was the first professional stadium that he called home, so the game should be more special for him than any of the other 22 men on the U.S. squad.