Jonas Schweinsteiger Junior Review

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Jonas was born in Dusseldorf, Germany on December 7, 2002. When Jonas was 2 years old, the family moved to Toronto, Canada after Jonas's father, Hans, got a job offer overseas. For the first few years, the Schweinsteiger family wanted to try their best to embrace the local culture and try new things to help them fit in. At the age of 4, Jonas expereinced his first hockey game when his father bought them tickets to see the Toronto Maple Leafs. After the game had ended, Jonas was hooked. He could not get the idea of hockey out of his head. After begging his father repeatedly for months, Jonas was given his first pair of skates and enrolled in a hockey school for complete beginners. Jonas was extremely quick to learn how to skate and within months he was put into a junior hockey program. The junior hockey program was called the Mississauga Reps. 

 

In Mississauga, Jonas began his playing career as a forward. In his first year he improved his skating ability exponentially and could skate circles around the rest of the kids. After a few years with the Reps, Jonas decided he wanted to switch his position after realizing h wasn't very good with scoring goals. After a talk with his coach, Jonas was put on defence and began his journey with his new position.  By the time Jonas was 12, he was one of the lead defenders in the GTHL and people were starting to talk. At the age of 15, Jonas was noted for his size (6'3") and rumours were starting to fly around about potentially being drafted to the OHL. The following year, at the age of 16, Jonas was drafted into the OHL by the Hamilton Bulldogs.

 

Being drafted to the Bulldogs was an absolute dream come true for Jonas, he often thought back to when he was a young kid, new to Canada, watching his very first hockey game. In his first season with the Bulldogs, Jonas was remarkably talented and held his own extremely well to the point where people were always talking about him, and he was starting to make headlines around the hockey community. By the end of his first season he led the team in blocked shots, and was only ranked 7th in assists. Going into the next season, there were already talks about Jonas moving up to the VHLM, but it would all come down t how he performed in this season. Throughout the season, Jonas was a phenom, you could not get past him.... No one could. He was a brick wall on defence, and with his help, the Bulldogs went on to win the J Ross Robertson Cup and then the Memorial Cup. This was enough to cement Jonas's chances of being drafted into the VHLM, and over the summer, in the second round, Jonas was drafted to the Mexico City Kings of the VHLM.