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...Ernie Higgins, the Norwood professional who molds goalie masks for National Hockey League netminders. Hynes returned to the ice in time to play the most controversial game of his high school career against B & N's big rival, the Belmont Hill School, and against his future linemate, Bob McManama...
...League McManama led Belmont into the game with a 6-0 Private School League record, having just beaten supposedly the three toughest teams in the league. Late in the second period with the score tied at 1-1. Hynes shot the puck over the boards, where it hit someone and bounced back into the rink. Assuming that play was dead, the Belmont goalie slouched over to one side of the net for a few moments of relaxation. Hynes picked up the puck again and slammed it from near center ice toward the untended cage, where it hit a post...
...bounced off himself and not a fan so that he had not blown the whistle. Eddie Walsh, who later played goalie for Boston University, made 45 saves for B & N, and Belmont went home with a questionable 2-1 loss. "To me, Dave's shot hit the crossbar," McManama said, while Hynes remembered that the puck definitely went in. McManama also recalled that Belmont won the League that season despite the defeat...
...Hynes's senior year, Haertl picked 20 out of 120 high school players in the East to go on the ambassador's trip to Sweden and Russia Hynes and McManama were roommates on the road. "We had been enemies because we played against each other, but there was nothing personal in our rivalry," Hynes remembered. During the trip they became close friends, and as both were headed for Harvard, they decided to room together in the Yard. The two have been roommates here for four years...
...Hynes's first year at Harvard, Bill Cleary, who was then coaching the freshman, moved Hynes from center to left wing. He played on the freshman team's first line along with McManama, who continued to operate at center, and winger Steve Harris from Andover. The team was powerful, winning 20 games and losing only one, a 6-5 defeat at the hands of B.U. Both Hynes and McManama had outstanding seasons, accumulating a total of 140 points. Hynes alone scored 48 goals including six against Andover, four against four other different teams, and three against Yale. In the loss...