ED: GROWING UP IN NEW ENGLAND, WE HAD THE BEST STREET HOCKEY TEAM. WE CALLED OURSELVES THE NEWTON O’S. WE WERE A LOUSY TEAM BUT WE LOVED PLAYING STREET HOCKEY. MARIA: AND THE SPORT’S ORIGINS CAN BE TRACED BACK TO A MASSACHUSETTS COMPANY. DOUG MEEHAN HAS MORE IN TONIGHT’S MADE IN MASS. REPORTER: THIS IS THE GOALIE PAD, THE ORIGINAL GOALIE PAD. TALK ABOUT GOING BACK IN TIME. TAKING A TOUR OF MYLEC HOCKEY IN WINCHENDON REMINDS ME OF MY CHILDHOOD. >> I’LL TELL YOU WHAT, THIS BRINGS BACK SOME MEMORIES. REPORTER: PLAYING STREET HOCKEY IN THE 1970’S WAS EVERYTHING. AND IF YOU HAD THIS STICK, YOU WERE THE COOLEST KID ON THE BLOCK. >> THIS IS THE FAMOUS AIRFLOW THAT RAY INVENTED. REPORTER: MYLEC OWNER AND CEO RICKY LAPERRIERE IS TALKING ABOUT THE COMPANY’S FOUNDER RAY LECLERC. BACK IN 1970 THE PLASTICS TOY MAKER WAS DEVELOPING A DURABLE BLADE THAT COULD TAKE HOCKEY OFF THE ICE AND ONTO THE STREET. WHEN LECLERC FOUND A FEW KIDS LIVING ACROSS THE STREET FROM HIS FACTORY, HE ASKED THEM TO GIVE IT A TRY. HE HAD NO IDEA AT THE TIME ONE OF THOSE BOYS WOULD ACTUALLY OWN THE COMPANY ONE DAY. >> THEY TOOK A FEW OF US COME BROUGHT US DOWN TO THE LOCAL FUNERAL HOME IN TOWN THAT HAD JUST PAVED THEIR PARKING LOT AND TOOK SOME PICTURES OF US. REPORTER: YUP, THIS IS RICKY ON THE ORIGINAL PHIL ESPOSITO STICK. >> -- WHAT ARE THE CHANCES THAT 10-YEAR-OLD KID WOULD END UP RUNNING THE PLACE AND OWNING THE PLACE? >> A MILLION TO ONE. REPORTER: THE BLADES WERE A HIT BUT IT WAS THE INVENTION OF A PLASTIC BALL THAT COULD REPLACE A PUCK THAT PUT MYLEC ON THE MAP. >> WE SHIP OVER A MILLION BALLS A YEAR ALL OVER THE WORLD. REPORTER: OVER THE COURSE OF 50-YEARS MYLEC HAS DESIGNED AND BROUGHT TO MARKET ALL KINDS OF STREET HOCKEY EQUIPMENT. >> THAT WAS THE JAQUES PLANTE STYLE MASK -- MASK. REPORTER: AND IN THE PROCESS THEY HELPED GROW A LOCAL PASTIME INTO A GLOBAL PHENOMENON. >> IT JUST MEANS AN AWFUL LOT TO ME MY WIFE MY CHILDREN THAT RAY TRUSTED US TO SELL THE COMPANY TO US AND CARRY ON HIS LEGACY.\ -- LEGACY. REPORTER: ABOUT THE NAME, IT’S A TRIBUTE TO THE COMPANY FOUNDER SON MICHAEL LECLERC. AT 14 MICHAEL PASSED AWAY FROM MENINGITIS. SO IT’S A COMBINATION OF LETTERS FROM FIRST AND LAST NAME MARIA: WHAT A GR