Lil’ Manius did not have much choice as to when he began his hockey career. Big Manius had him skates at the age of six months; he had hockey equipment at age two and half and was on his first hockey team at the age three. The “team” Lil was a part of at the age of three, basically consisted of Winnipeg Jet player’s kids. Although looking at the names on the jerseys it was impressive. You would look around the ice of toddlers on the ice and you would names such as, Weber, Fleming, Evans, Visser, Elyk, Pellegrino, and of course Manius. The only other team they really played was team consisting of Calgary Dragon players children, but the sucked and were not much competition for the children of Winnipeg. Lil’ thinks he was a bit of a natural because as long as he remembers he was one of the better players but he is not really sure as he really cannot remember life before skating or hockey.

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