Tsarov: Beginning

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Returning to our story of young Miroslav! To recap he was born to two hulking parents, a Mongolian basketball player, and a Japanese Sumo wrestler. Born in northern Ukraine, Miroslav was effected by the Chernobyl disaster and bulked up quite a bit to it, as well as seemingly slow his aging.
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At the age of 13, Miroslav was forced to quit his promising basketball career. Hit weight was simply becoming too heavy to support the jumping in the sport and his knees were giving way. After several torn meniscus’s, and an ACL repair surgery, young Tsarov was forced to face an unpleasant fate.
Searching for a replacement sport went through a few iterations before landing surprisingly on hockey. His 300 lb + frame was able to not be beat up too much on the ice, and his size made him very difficult to separate from the puck.
Beginning at just 14 years of age, Miroslav took quickly to the new sport, imposing his dominating frame over others his age, he had a full 12 inches on the next closest player in his youth league (who was 3 years older) and at least 100 pounds. He was a beast. So much so that the league being a little disgruntled came to an agreement with the junior league to pull him up early. At 15 he laced up the skates for Kyiv where he would put out one of the best rookie campaigns ever, despite his young age.

TBC