When Atlanta Journal-Constitution hockey writer John Manasso's book Season of Loss, A Lifetime of Forgiveness: The Dan Snyder and Dany Heatley Story came out back in 2005 (courtesy ECW Press ), I must admit I wanted nothing to do with it. It was one of the few hockey books I did not buy that year. | Buy at - Amazon - Chapters | The tragic accident and the loss of Dan Snyder's life is pretty serious and depressing stuff, and I elected to pass on it. I did not want to deal with it at all back then, tuning out news casts and passing on print and online articles. It was just too sad. It was not until 2007 that I picked up a copy of the text, and even then I only did because I found it in a bargain bin of a Vancouver used bookstore. Don't tell Manasso - I got it for only $2. Even then I still was not prepared to deal with the story. I put it on my shelf and did not pull it back out until now, the summer of 2008. For reasons I still can not ascertain, I suddenly felt that I w...