SENS HAVE DATE WITH RAYZER

Some midday items of note:

• This just in: Martin Gerber is Swiss-German for "Patrick Lalime."
  
  The pride of Cayuga, Ray Emery, gets the start in goal tomorrow for the Senators against the Calgary Flames. Hey, no one thought Senators coach Bryan Murray was going to start Gerber for all 82 games... the guess here was 75, figuring that Murray would let Emery start all four games against the Islanders, and maybe a couple against the Leafs.
• Didn't type "last-place Senators" up there since while technically it's true, we're trying to build some bridges here.
• The early response to an Ottawa Sun poll is running about 90% in favour of Jeff Hunt being recruited by one of the other CFL bidders now the Golden Gate Capital Corp. bid is no more due to its leader, Ernest Anderson, having contracted intestinal cancer. One wishes Anderson the best, of course, and no one could have foreseen this, but it does point out the problem: A lot of people, with some encourgament from the media no doubt, believed Jeff Hunt was the one-and-only person who could save the CFL in Ottawa-Gatineau.
  
  Hunt is saying today that he wouldn't rule out joining one of the other bids, but it's hard to see him getting involved if he's not in the frontman role. Not many business guys are big on being a fifth wheel.
• Finally, a reason to watch boring U.S. college football (well, there's that, and there's Rutgers being 5-0): Tomorrow night, a walk-on named Steve Aponavicius will handle some of the kicking duties for Boston College in a nationally televised game against Virginia Tech. Aponavicius, out of Easton, Pa., has never played in a football game, on any level.

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