• In just one season with the Brantford Nadrofsky Steelers, and at 10 years old he scored 378 goals and 139 assists.
• By age 13, he had scored over 1,000 goals. This attracted media attention and the negative attention from other players' parents, he was often booed.
• when he was 14, his parents arranged for him to move to Toronto to remove him from the uncomfortable pressure in his hometown and to further his career.