The longtime Toronto Argonauts all-star kicker, traded during training camp to the Edmonton Eskimos, will play against his old teammates for the first time Thursday at Commonwealth Stadium (10 p.m. ET, TSN).

The 34-year-old California native acknowledged Wednesday he remains peeved over the way he was packed off without so much as a thank-you phone call from the team brass of an organization he served faithfully more than a decade.

“It will linger with me for the rest of the life. Just the way it was handled,” Prefontaine said after the Eskimos avoided a driving rain to do a walkthrough practice in the stadium concourse. “The friends I thought I had over there and the relationships I thought I had, they basically showed me there was no relationship.”

Prefontaine, who is leading the CFL to date with 29 points and a 49.5 yard punting average, said he hasn’t talked to Argos management since.

“I’m looking to trying to win the football game,” he said. “I’m not really looking forward to making amends with an organization that treated me the way it did.”

The clash between the 1-1 Argos and the 1-1 Eskimos will be a battle of two teams heading in opposite directions.

The Green and Gold hope to maintain the momentum of last week’s dramatic come-from-behind 34-31 victory over the Calgary Stampeders.

The Boatmen, meanwhile, dropped an embarrassing 32-13 decision to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and are putting up dubious numbers on both sides of the ball.

Toronto is last in total yards offensively, averaging just 234 a game. The defence has given up a league-worst 421 yards per game on average. They’ve scored 34 points, second-lowest in the CFL.

Head coach Rich Stubler has been criticized for mixing and matching quarterbacks Kerry Joseph and Michael Bishop rather than sticking with one as the starter.

On Thursday, the plan is to start Joseph and let him call the plays.

“It’s just us players taking ownership of what we’ve got to get done,” said Joseph. “We know we haven’t played to the calibre we have the potential to play to, so in this situation now, we know what we have to do as players and just go out there and get it done.”

Stubler said the key will be containing Eskimos quarterback Ricky Ray, who lit up the Stampeders for 448 yards through the air along with three TDs, earning him CFL offensive player of the week honours.

“Ricky is the best corner thrower in the league. He has a great touch on the ball and a great touch on the deep ball,” said Stubler.

The Eskimos, like the Argos, sit in third place in their division heading into Week 3 and acknowledge they have some problems of their own to fix.

The defence has allowed a league-worst 63 points over two games. On offence, they’re averaging 55 yards on the ground, second-worst in the league

The run game, led by tailback Damien Anderson, has been a disappointment to the point head coach Danny Maciocia brought back training camp cut A.J. Harris this week to push Anderson.

Against Calgary, Anderson carried the ball five times for 12 yards, slipped twice, and failed three times to get a first down on second and short situations.

“We don’t need to go out there and rush for 300 yards, but we’ve got to be more effective in the run game,” said Ray. “When we get in a second-and-three we’ve go to be able to convert on those situations and we haven’t been able to do that.”

Notes: The Esks and Argos will meet again down east on July 20 in the first of five back-to-back games for Edmonton …. Eskimos defensive back Lenny Williams has been placed on the nine-game injured list with a detached pectoral muscle …. The Eskimos haven’t beaten the Argos since Oct. 10, 2005.