And then there's junior Brian Busconi who can remember back to the 1981 playoff when the icemen rode an eight game win streak out of the depts of obscurity and into the conference finals.
"Freshman year nobody thought we'd do anything either," recalls the left wing who has become as big a surprise as the one that finds himself the Crimson on the brink of its third straight trip to the post season play Busconi a penalty killing specialist on the redline has taken up the Crimson goal scoring burden of late lighting the little red lamp twice in each of last weekend's contests at Bright.
That came as pleasant relief for the icemen, who have found it mighty difficult to put the biscuit in their twines this year averaging less than three tallies a contest.
It's actually an anemic rate of 2.79 goals per game a figure that forces most to the conclusion that at least some of the spectacular efforts of sophomore goalie Grant Blair have been frittered away.
But if the Busconis of the Harvard hockey team continue to provide some desperately needed spark up front then almost anything could be possible. Great goaltending a little luck and competent offense have often been the ingredients of a tough playoff team, no?.
Me thinks yes, but before you get carried away remember that the icemen have to earn victory number 63 in America's oldest hockey rivalry first.
And then the icemen will have pulled it off transforming a pumpkin of a season into a shimmering glass carriage that will bear them away to the ECAC's.