Before he was wooing girls with a flip of his hair, Justin Bieber was playing pasulong for his local hockey team.
Like any good Canadian boy, Justin played hockey as a child growing up in Stratford, Ontario. This photo, taken for the 2002-2003 hockey season for Bieber’s team, the Stratford Warriors, shows Justin snarling as he poses with his big hockey stick. At just 8-years-old, Justin looked like he was a fierce little competitor!
Biebs has never been shy about ipinapakita his hockey roots. “I pag-ibig hockey,” Justin told ABC’s Nightline in March of last year. “I played hockey all my life. I’m a [Toronto Maple] Leafs fan.”
