"The Cornell game was great because we won 11-3," Barakett says. "But I didn't have to do much, just stand in front of the net and bang home rebounds. I think there's an emphasis too much on points. My best games are those where I work hard on every shift and do all the little things. Not scoring necessarily, but making good passes and hustling."

Barakett has lost 15 pounds during the course of the season. But despite the abundance of exercise he gets playing hockey, he continues to work out in the weightroom after practice, building strength to fight off defensemen who would rather see him groveling on the ice than grooving shots into the back of the wines.

"Timmy's so much stronger this year," Tomassoni says. "And that's given him a lot of confidence."

Not just Barakett, but the entire Crimson team is playing more aggresively this season, matching check for check and even punch for punch with physical squads like RPI and St. Lawrence. And Barakett isn't the only iceman thawing out in the weightroom after practice.

"It's pretty hard to stay in lifting shape when you're trying to play hockey," Barakett says. "But half the team goes to the weightroom after almost every practice."

His workouts before and during the season are not the only factors helping Barakett this year. Much of his success, as he is quick to point out, is the result of plying with two fine linemates--Bourbeau and Krayer.

"Playing right wing with a center like Allen, I know I'm going to see a lot of the puck," Barakett says. "And I don't have to worry that much about face-offs and defense. I can just skate into open ice and I know that someone is going to hit me with the pass."

Barakett and Bourbeau have made Harvard's second line one of the most terrifying and productive in the country, and earned the nickname "Killer B's."

Although Barakett doesn't like to be singled out in this way--"There are five guys on the ice, not just Allen and me," he says--he enjoys the notoriety the nickname has brought him.

For his part, Bourbeau thinks "Killer B's" is an appropriate epithet.

"It's a good nickname because we work well together," Bourbeau says. "And we both put a lot of pucks into the net."

Barakett's Killer B line is challenging Fusco's Firing Line as the premier Harvard scoring machine.

Last year, the Firing Line of Fusco, Tim Smith and Lane MacDonald accounted for 83 goals. But this season, there is more distribution in the scoring with Fusco's line collecting 31 goals, Barakett's line 28 and the other two lines 27.

"The Fusco line has been working well together for awhile," Bourbeau says. "And now we're working well together."

A strong performance from all four lines will be needed in the weeks to come.