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for the cost of investigating the crash. The lighter sentence was due in part to Snyder's parents forgiving
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scholarship. Snyder decided to continue his try-out and made the team after leading the
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A Season of Loss, a
Lifetime of Forgiveness: The Dan Snyder and Dany Heatley Story
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