Young was born January 1, 1968, in Waban, Massachusetts. As a youth, he played in the 1981 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with the Boston Bruins minor ice hockey team. He attended Belmont Hill School where he played on the varsity hockey, lacrosse and soccer teams. Young attended Harvard University where he majored in history.\n', '

While attending Harvard, Young played four seasons of college hockey with the Crimson men\'s hockey program between 1986 and 1990. He recorded 29 points each in his freshman and sophomore seasons, in 34 and 28 games respectively. Also as a sophomore, Young made his first international appearance as he joined the American junior team for the 1988 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships in Moscow. He scored two goals and added an assist in seven games for the sixth-place Americans.\n', '

In the 1988–89 season, Young joined with Lane MacDonald and Allen Bourbeau to form what became known as the "line of fire]] as the trio led Harvard offensively. Young was among the team leaders in goal scoring with 33 in all competitions, and was named to the East Coast Athletic Conference (ECAC) second all-star team. On December 12, 1988, Young set an NCAA record for the fastest hat trick by scoring three goals in 49 seconds – all shorthanded. The Crimson reached the 1989 Frozen Four tournament where they defeated the Minnesota Golden Gophers in the national championship final, 4–3 in overtime, to claim Harvard\'s first hockey championship, and the first national team championship in the school\'s history.\n', '

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