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See, kids usually don ’ t start playing hockey until they ’ re six or seven.

Ice isn ’ t grass.

It ’ s a whole new surface and everybody starts from ground zero.

By the time I was ten, I had eight years on skates instead of four, and a few seasons ’ worth of ice time against ten-year-olds.

So I had a long head start on everyone else.