ED SNIDER as visionary also included his own mortality. When he started his youth hockey foundation in 2005, he said quite casually, "This will be my legacy."
The aim of the Ed Snider Youth Hockey Foundation is to serve city kids in the region. But it's more than hockey camps and skating lessons.
"I just wanted to do what I could, and doing it through hockey is the most appealing thing to me," Snider once told the Daily News. "We talk about the hockey aspect of it, but these kids have to get good grades. We help them with their homework.