Entering this, his senior season on the Harvard men’s hockey team, Andrew Lederman had scored one goal.

One.

Day after day, week after week, season after season had ticked away, and Lederman had played only 51 games, accumulating just 11 points.

But times have changed.

This season, Lederman needed only two contests to match his career goal total, and now, after skating in 11 games, he has tallied four.

He has amassed 10 points thus far. That’s already three more than his season-high, which he acquired as a freshman—which was, coincidentally, the last time Lederman ever really saw consistent ice time.

Following his 30-game rookie year, the Toronto, Ont., native saw his chances steadily decrease, skating in just 14 contests his sophomore campaign and only seven last year.

“It was tough,” Lederman admitted. “A lot of ups and downs.”

It’s all ups now, though.

Along with captain Noah Welch, assistant captain Tom Cavanagh, forward Brendan Bernakevitch and freshman Jon Pelle, Lederman is a fixture on the Crimson’s top power-play unit. The first three were established offensive powerhouses entering the season, and the attention they drew from opposing teams’ penalty kills was enough to give Lederman anonymity and freedom on the ice.

Now, with nine man-advantage points to his name, Lederman is anonymous no longer.

“We weren’t supposed to be the guys scoring,” Lederman laughed of his and Pelle’s success. “It was supposed to be Noah, Cav and Bernie.”

The senior has blended equally seamlessly into Harvard’s second line with Pelle and junior Charlie Johnson. If you watched the trio in action, you’d believe it had been together for ages.

But that, of course, would mean that Lederman had been seeing regular shifts for ages—and he hadn’t.

“There were times when there were little inklings of confidence that I could try to build on,” he said of his first thee years with the Crimson, “but lots of times, I didn’t get the opportunities that I wanted.”