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It was the 2006-07 season and Ottawa Senators goalie Ray Emery was off to a great start.

As the National Hockey League All-Star Game approached, I asked him what he had planned for the break.

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“I’m going bungee jumping in Whistler,” Emery said.

Great story, I thought. A key member of the Senators is going to throw himself from a cliff during his time off.

“Do me a favour?” his teammate and good friend Jason Spezza asked me in the Canadian Tire Centre parking lot about a half hour later. “Don’t write it?”

What? Why?

“Things are finally going Razor’s way,” Spezza said. “That’s going to get him in trouble.

“Do you want to talk to Marty Gerber every day instead?”

Gerber, the Senators other goalie, was a well-liked nice man, but also quiet and never really had much of interest to say to the media.