"I think we have the potential to do so well,"Mleczko said. "If we can harness that potentialand produce what we're capable of producing, Ithink we can go all the way."
"Our goals are the same as they are everyyear," Stone said. "We'd like to win the IvyLeague. We'd like to win the Beanpot. We'd like towin the ECAC's, and we'd like to win a NationalChampionship. All those things are possible, butthey're not easy."
Even without a national championship, there isthe sense that this may be the turning point forHarvard women's hockey. The sport itself is in aperiod of fantastic growth, and Harvard is poisedto take advantage of that growth.
Perhaps it is fitting that Asano, who has seenthe thin times in Harvard's hockey program, wouldput it best:
"I think this year we have more team unity; ourmorale is higher," Asano said. "People are justpsyched to be playing and psyched to be out there.
"This is the beginnings of a program that'sgoing to be strong for a very long time," sheadded.