After a year of college, many are ready to go back home and lay around for a bit. Like many of his classmates, Louis Leblanc will be heading home. But as a professional hockey player, he'll be doing anything but lying around.

For most college students, waiting to find out what state—or country—your professional career will take you to is a nerve-racking experience.

When Canada took on the United Sates for the gold medal in ice hockey at the 2010 winter Olympics, rising sophomore Louis Leblanc was one of nearly a dozen Canadians on the Harvard men’s hockey team rooting for their countrymen in hostile territory. But while Leblanc and his fellow Canadians may have been outnumbered by their American teammates, it was the Canucks who got the last laugh when Sidney Crosby’s overtime goal gave Team Canada the 3-2 victory. While Leblanc was only able to cheer on his compatriots from afar this past winter, the next time Canada goes up against the United States in international competition, Leblanc could be right there on the ice.

The Harvard men’s hockey team had trouble finding its rhythm during the 2009-10 season.

Last weekend at its awards banquet at the Harvard Club of Boston, the Harvard men's hockey team named juniors Michael Del Mauro and Chris Huxley as its 117th and 118th captains. Classmate Kyle Richter was designated as assistant captain.

With the end of the season looming, the Harvard men’s hockey team has a shot at redemption against local rival Boston College, who defeated the Crimson in a close 3-2 match in early December. The Beanpot game, scheduled today at TD Garden, will measure how far the Harvard team has come from the 10-game losing streak it was on when it last faced the Eagles.

The Harvard men’s hockey team (9-21-3) battled through difficult first and second periods before finally falling, 3-0, to No. 9 Cornell (19-8-4) at Lynah Rink in the second game of its ECAC quarterfinal series on Saturday night.

The Harvard men’s hockey team dropped the first game of a three-game quarterfinal series to No. 9 Cornell on Friday night. The Big Red used the energy of its fans, the talent of its freshmen, and the effectiveness of its power play in a dominant 5-1 win over the Crimson at Lynah Rink.

The talented yet inconsistent junior goalie Kyle Richter had the best two-game stretch of his season last weekend in the first round of the ECAC playoffs, recording 33 and 37 saves respectively on back-to-back nights as Harvard swept the Princeton Tigers.

Riding a four-game losing streak, the Harvard men’s hockey team was in desperate need of a rapid turnaround to save its season this weekend.