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Emery Pays Tribute To Ali

12/12/2007 at 10:46am EST

from the Ottawa Citizen,

When Ray Emery unveiled his new helmet yesterday, the Ottawa Senators organization held its collective breath.

Memories are still fresh of the firestorm Emery ignited two seasons ago, when he briefly donned a helmet carrying images of convicted rapist Mike Tyson.

So a great sense of relief washed over everyone when Emery’s new helmet was revealed to be carrying two images of The Greatest, Muhammad Ali, who was everything to boxing (and humanity) that Tyson wasn’t.

continued... with picture.

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