Hard work, opportunity leads to NHL contract for Medicine Hat's Schneider

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Photo: Medicine Hat Tigers goaltender and Calgary Flames prospect Nick Schneider was passed over at the 2015 NHL Draft, but parlayed a good showing at the Flames camp into an entry-level deal (courtesy of Marissa Baecker/Getty Images)


</p> Imagine what it would be like being a teenager with some hockey aspirations sitting in an NHL dressing room beside a player earning about $5 million a season. For many juniors across Canada, this is perhaps a rite of passage, the culmination of long hours of work, of diligence, of persistence.

Enter Nick Schneider (CGY) of the Medicine Hat Tigers, an 18-year-old goaltender who found himself on that very hot seat prior to the current WHL campaign.… read more

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