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...Sweeney started skating on an outdoor rink at the age of three and moved to an indoor rink three years later. Then, when he turned nine, his father took a year's sabbatical and the family relocated to Ontario...
...That's where you'll find every kid playing hockey, and every kid is good," Sweeney says. "In the Maritime, we're two steps behind everyone in Ontario, and you could notice the difference it made in my play in just one year...
After playing at the Squirt level in Ontario, the Sweeney family returned to New Brunswick. Then, the year before high school, at age 14, he made an important decision to play Junior B instead of Bantam...
...Some of those guys were 21 years old, and it was a big maturation time for me," Sweeney says. "That's maybe where I made my biggest adjustment--I had to develop a lot more quickness or I was going to get killed...
...quickness paid off, of all places, in the United State. In an unusual step for Canadian hockey player. Sweeney decided to go across the border for high school. He selected St. Paul's, in Concord...