He joined his first hockey team at age seven and a year later scored 132 goals. At the age of nine, Lindros was playing with older kids and dominating the league. "He wasn't bigger and stronger than most of the other kids at that age," his mom, Bonnie, told
Sports Illustrated. "He was just better. One night the realization hit me that I had a special child on my hands."
Lindros's father, Carl, had played minor-league hockey with the Chicago Blackhawks organization, and at first tried to discourage his son from playing the game. As a player, Carl Lindros didn't like the violence of hockey. "We wanted him to play basketball or football," the senior Lindros told the San Francisco Examiner. "We let him play hockey in a non-competitive church league. We paid $2 for a pair of skates ... we didn't exactly purchase the best of everything for him. We had no intentions of his playing hockey."
Growth spurt
But the young Lindros had different ideas. His family moved from London to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, when he was 12 and he talked his parents into making the new backyard swimming pool into an ice rink for himself and younger brother, Brett.
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