KINGS: Second-round series against Stratford a good time to fete Snyder

For his part, Snyder credits the organization and its people for the successes he had with the team, adding it’s a nice honour from his hometown club.

“I grew up here, and my brother (Graham Snyder) was on the original Sugar Kings team. I grew up watching them and then I played myself. Then to go on to manage that for a long run with the team, it’s been a great, great ride,” he said, adding he had no regrets about finally shifting into retirement.

“When I told them I was leaving, I was really comfortable with the fact that we had good people in place to take over. And that’s proved to be true – pretty seamless. They’ve done a great job of keeping things going and we’ve been lucky that we had those people in place. Hopefully, good things will keep going,” said Snyder, noting the team’s firstplace finish this year in the conference.

“We still do things the Jeff Snyder way, the right way he always did it, and it’s kind of a way that we’re going to continue on because he set the bar so high for everyone,” said Basler.

The ceremony is set for game three Sunday afternoon at the Woolwich Memorial Centre.