It was a most unlikely scene: with one of the season's largest contingents of media assembled at Ketter Saturday, none other than Alexander Semin stepped up onto a small platform and stood before hordes of voice recorders, microphones, and television cameras and fielded every question asked of him -- most thoughtfully and reflectively, too. He did so with his countryman Dmitry Chesnokov at his side, translating, and he pledged to make regular appearances before the media all season . . . ...