Harvard's power play showed some signs of life this past weekend, but the team still generated very little evenstrength offense.

Martins does his job. His skating and stick-handling is second to none. But he doesn't usually have anyone to pass to or to set him up, and when he is goaded into taking penalties, the offense pretty much evaporates.

"I think too many people wait for Stevie Martins to do something for us," Tomassoni said. "Stevie cannot do it alone, with them or without them."

And Saturday gave people a little preview of what next year might be like, when there is no Martins, and if nobody steps up.

Then again, when Ted Drury turned professional in 1993, most people thought last year's squad would have no offense. People like Martins, Brian Farrell '94, Sean McCann '94 and Chris Baird '94, to name a few, picked up the slack.

So far this season nobody outside Martins has come even close to being a go-to guy.

"One guy cannot do it," Tomassoni said. "We got to have 20 guys stepping forth saying, `Hey I'm the guy and I'm going to do it each night.' It's not an individual game."

The non-Steve-Martins Crimson was exposed Saturday, and the sight wasn't pretty. Harvard was outplayed by then 11th-place Union.

There still is time--the ECAC playoffs--for a Harvard renaissance, but the resurgence will have to be led by someone other than Martins. Martins is already doing all he can.

The problem is, not many others are. And next year isn't far away.