Allen Bourbeau was a schoolboy star at Acton-Boxboro High School in Massachusetts, eventually setting Massachusetts records for most goals in a season (62), most points in a season (102), both in his senior year of 1982-83, and career points with 289. Bourbeau then went to Harvard where he majored in American history, and played on the “Line of Fire” his senior year that included Lane MacDonald and C. J. Young. That year they led Harvard to the NCAA Championship. As a freshman, Bourbeau had scored a hat trick in the final game at the Frozen Four, but Harvard lost the title to Michigan State. He was drafted by the Philadelphia Flyers in the fourth round of the 1983 NHL entry draft but never played in the NHL. He briefly played in Germany with EV Landshut after the 1988 Winter Olympics and then went into business, first in Lynchburg, Virginia, and settling in Florida.