During this time Lindros was dominating every league in which he played and began to grow at a fast rate. "It was awful," he told the
St. Paul Pioneer Press. "I think I grew eight or nine inches in one year when I was 14. I used to fall down the stairs at school. I'd say, 'Hi, I'm Eric Lindros' and--boom--down I'd go. And I was always injured. The ligaments [muscles] could not keep everything intact [together]." Eventually, Lindros grew to be six-feet-five inches and 225 pounds.
Playing for his prep school team, the St. Michael's Buzzers, Lindros scored 25 goals and made 43 assists in just 33 games. Next he moved up to junior hockey, the minor leagues for the NHL. The Sault Sainte Marie [Michigan] Greyhounds made Lindros the number-one pick of the 1989 Ontario Hockey League junior draft, but his parents wanted him to play for a team closer to home (Sault Sainte Marie is 400 miles from Toronto), so that he could stay in school and lead a semi-normal teenage life.
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