David Almeida, an avid NHL trading card collector from Southbridge, Mass., turned one lucky pack of Panini America NHL trading cards into one fantastic grand prize: The chance for him, his friends and family to spend this Sunday with Vancouver Canucks goalie and Boston-area native Cory Schneider.
The 24-year-old Almeida is one of the more than 100,000 NHL card collectors across the U.S. and Canada who participated in the 2012 Panini NHL Player of the Day promotion at more than 250 hobby shops from February to April. He is among the thousands who earned prizes, but as the Grand Prize winner, the 24-year-old collector will be the only one to spend the day with an NHL player.
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