The Dan Snyder Memorial Award is awarded each year to the player of the Atlanta Thrashers who best embodies perseverance, dedication and hard work without reward or recognition, so that his team and teammates might succeed. The award was created in 2004 to commemorate Thrashers forward, Dan Snyder, who died from injuries sustained in an automobile accident in September 2003. A similar award is awarded in the OHL and is known as the Dan Snyder Memorial Trophy. Sometimes the Thrashers' award is called the same name.