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Benoit Rochon (talk) 16:26, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
Steve Bégin’s youth. At the age of six, Bégin start his hockey career in the miner hockey. Steve Bégin and his friend Sébastien Hubert played together in MAHG (méthode d’apprentissage de hockey sur glace). Gilles Bégin, Steve’s father, didn’t want to buy new hockey gears so Steve started with girl skates. Since his first hockey game, Steve know he want to play in the NHL. After two good seasons in MAHG were he was the best player on the ice, Steve grade in novice. At nine years old, in his second season in novice category, Steve ended the season with over 120 nets. The next year, Steve made the atom AA without difficulties and people started to say that he was too small to play AA but Steve heard this and he started to change his style, he became more violent. While his second atom season, even if he was the smallest player, he was the one how protect the other kids. Before a pre-season game, a big boy insult one of his partner and Bégin jump on him and gave him a lesson. Steve Bégin continues his ascension to the NHL in playing pee-wee CC for his first year in this category and AA the second year. Bégin was a complete athlete; he was a very good hockey player, he played soccer and he did box in his youth. He was a really good soccer player, he played AA at his first soccer season. At 14, he decided to put all his energy in hockey. During dead season, at the age of 12, he started box training and he did box training until he had 20. In his first bantam season, Steve did the AA, he was in very good shape because of his box training and that help him a lot because at the end of the year, a midget AAA hockey club, invite him to do the camp. He was the last player to be subtracted but the coach told him that his place was reserved for the next season. He did two years in midget AAA and two year in LHJMQ (ligue de hockey junior majeur du québec) with Val d’Or before being drafted by Calgary in the NHL. He had his first chance in the big league in 1997-1998 season with the Flames.