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Honoring Dan Snyder
by Paul on 10/19/09 at 07:34 AM ET
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from Craig Custance of the Sporting News,
Graham Snyder stood inside the arena named after his son and watched the players skate by. The Atlanta Thrashers had made the two-hour bus ride from Buffalo to practice on a sheet of ice Graham worked hard to help build. And he was soaking in the scene.
“It really is an emotional day and a happy day,” Snyder said, watching the Thrashers along with 1,500 fans who packed into the stands to see an NHL practice.
“It’s probably something pretty unique. Not too many teams, I don’t think, would go to these lengths to make sure they are here.”
But the Thrashers never would have missed this.
continued & watch a video of the practice below…
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An Arena Built With Dan Snyder In Mind
by Paul on 10/16/09 at 06:24 PM ET
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from Pierre LeBrun of ESPN,
It’s been six years.
It was just more than six years ago that planning for a new sports complex and hockey arena in Elmira, Ontario, began. And it was just over six years ago that Dan Snyder was taken away from this world much too early, at the age of 25, in a tragic car accident in Atlanta.
On Sunday, when the Atlanta Thrashers honor their former player by skating at the new Dan Snyder Memorial Arena in his hometown 90 minutes west of Toronto, Graham Snyder will no doubt have a heavy heart, but he will also know that his son will be looking down with a big smile on his face.
After all, this is what Dan wanted, a new arena for Elmira.
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Remembering Dan Snyder
by Paul on 10/05/07 at 09:34 AM ET
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Ben Wright at Blueland Blog remembered… I can’t believe 4 years have passed.
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