Dominic Moore is a fantastic goal-scorer and has been a very able captain. Tim Pettit (again I ask, how is he undrafted?) has one of the most vicious slapshots in college hockey. Defenseman Noah Welch regularly abuses the opposition’s best forward. And Dov Grumet-Morris is a legitimate, big-time goaltender who plays best when he’s challenged the most.

This is a good team, but we’ve known that for awhile. Now it’s time to see how badly it wants to become a very good team—or maybe even a great one.

And that’s going to come down to whether or not Harvard can play consistently in the second half, when the wear-and-tear of a hockey season sets in, when the weather in Boston makes you feel like you have the Norwalk virus even when you don’t and when opponents start getting a little hungrier.

Because—last year notwithstanding—good Februarys are needed for good Marches.

And this team is capable of marching awfully far.

—Staff writer Jon Paul Morosi can be reached at morosi@fas.harvard.edu.