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Mark Messier emotional on night of Glen Sather sendoff

EDMONTON – Rangers president Glen Sather, Friday night’s King of Alberta, perfectly capped a riveting and emotional banner-raising ceremony at Rexall Place surrounded by his family, with a touch of Yankee legend Lou Gehrig’s iconic 1939 speech.

“I sincerely wish that everyone in this building experience something, anything in your life that makes you feel like I do right now: the luckiest person on Earth,” Sather, 72, said from a center-ice podium to bring the house down.

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His wife, Ann, children and grandchildren were never far away, by Sather’s design.