Though the Olympians are certainly a valuable addition to the squad, Stone does not want her other players to merely sit back and watch as the action unfolds around them.

“Everyone has their role,” Stone said. “We’ve sort of said to them, ‘Everyone empty your pockets.’ Some of you come with Beanpots, some of you come with New England championships. Some of you come with a medal rattling around somewhere. [All those individual accolades] are gone.”

“We don’t want to be in a situation of high profile, low profile players,” Stone added. “We’ve been there before, it does nothing for us, and that causes people to sort of sit and watch and think. It doesn’t mean we’re not happy they’re back—we’re so happy. But we want them to come back into this great thing we’ve created while they were gone.”

The Crimson attack will likely feature four lines, though Stone has not yet finalized exactly how they will look.

“There will be some explosiveness,” Stone said. “We have weapons. We have a lot of weapons.”

Vital to Harvard’s scoring efforts this year will be the ability to score on the power play. Last year the Crimson ranked first in the nation in power-play proficiency.

“We’re very lucky we have kids who can handle the puck,” Stone said. “If they move that puck quickly they’re constantly creating two-on-ones.”

The coaching staff is looking to muster a power play goal on at least one out of every three chances.

And with the personnel available, that aim certainly seems within reach.

“We’ve been working pretty hard on the power play the last couple of weeks,” Corriero said. “For us to have our power play from last season with Botterill, Ruggiero and Chu ... it makes more options.”

Defensively, the Crimson is as strong as ever, retaining all its defensemen while adding Ruggiero and two freshmen, Abra Kinkopf and Jennifer Skinner.

In addition to Hagerman, one senior, Pamela Van Reesema, and three sophomores—Ashley Banfield, Louise Chim and Emily Haigh—retake the ice.

“Hagerman [and] Van Reesema are two really good defensemen,” Stone said. “We feel so good about our defensemen. We’re in better shape than ever [on defense] since I’ve been here.”

Van Reesema, in addition to being a defensive menace throughout her three years, recorded six goals and eighteen assists last season, helping to quickly galvanize the offense from the back.

Banfield was hobbled last year by a knee injury which caused her to miss a significant chunk of the season. Despite that, however, she returned late in the year to score two critical goals in the ECAC quarterfinals against Princeton.