Dan Snyder narrowly escaped being cut from his junior hockey team for two years in a row. That s hardly the stuff that NHL careers are made of. But Snyder earned his spot on the NHL s Atlanta Thrashers roster through sheer force of will and strength of character, even though scouts thought the odds were against him. Those who knew Snyder describe him as the kind of person others naturally gravitated towards. One of those people was Dany Heatley, college star, All-Star, and marked one of the nhl s next great players. On September 29, 2003, while driving down a
