For Duxbury girls hockey star senior Addy Harrington, there’s likely no bigger compliment.

Many of the state’s juggernauts headed to The Bog for the eight-team Tenney Cup over the last weekend of December, and the host Dragons were locked in a scoreless marathon with an undefeated Notre Dame Academy (H) in the semifinals.

But on a power play in double overtime, junior Shea Martin won the faceoff out of a timeout from the left dot, Harrington carried the puck into the middle lane, and Harrington wristed in the game-winning goal – executing head coach Dan Najarian’s play call perfectly – to lift Duxbury to the tournament’s championship game.

Najarian shared a quick look with the player he’s coached since about the third grade, feeling almost as if the rink went quiet for a moment out of mutual respect and admiration. After the game, he told reporters that the four-year varsity player is “the epitome of Duxbury hockey,” and called her “truly the heart and soul of the team.”

To Harrington, well, she watched two-time Boston Herald Dream Team forward Ayla Abban dominate with Duxbury. Harrington won a Div. 2 state title as a freshman with renowned captain Lily Sparrow, Dream-Teamer McKenna Colella and two-time Dream Team goalie Anna McGinty. She won another as a sophomore with McGinty and Dream Team forward Maddie Greenwood. She shared a line with 100-point scorers Zoe Madigan (a two-time All-Scholastic) and Megan Carney. She also played with All-Scholastic defender Sami Norton.

Her respect for all of them is infinite. And words like Najarian’s put her legacy in the program right up there with all of them.

“Coming into Duxbury as a freshman, I saw those leaders,” Harrington said. “I saw the people that really represented Duxbury High School. That’s literally all I wanted – to be a junior and senior and take that role. For ‘Nudge’ to say that, it means everything to me.

“I knew a lot of upperclassmen that did take on that role. And for them to pass down that leadership to me, and for me to be in it, it’s just the best thing that can happen.”

Duxbury girls hockey player Addy Harrington takes a shot on net. (Staff photo by Stuart Cahill/Media News Group)

If there were a posterchild of growing through the program to rise as one of the state’s top players over the last couple years, it’s Harrington.

After scoring 10 points as a freshman with the eventual state-champion Dragons, Harrington – alongside Madigan and Carney on what Najarian called the “red” line – notched 31 points as Duxbury repeated. Madigan and Carney then surpassed 100 career points as seniors last year, while Harrington posted a career-high 38 points as a junior.

For Duxbury to reach its perennial goal of winning the state title, Najarian knew Harrington would need to step up with new linemates. The captain has responded accordingly with 32 points through 16 games, including many major clutch performances.

The overtime winner against Canton? Harrington. A key insurance goal for a 2-0 win over Hingham? Harrington. She also had a hat trick in a 4-0 win over Div. 1 threat Malden Catholic, surpassing 100 career points. Even in 7-0 win over Whitman-Hanson/Silver Lake, Harrington dished six assists.

“I think you’re seeing the type of player that she is this year,” Najarian said. “Addy was on that line (with Madigan and Carney) and she scored a whole bunch of points on her own, and now here she is with a new crew, new linemates, and she’s still doing what she’s doing. … As importantly, she’s doing all the little things. She’s backchecking, she’s on the penalty kill. She’s taken on a much larger role in sort of all situations.”

Harrington gives credit elsewhere, especially to Najarian, for her success in those big moments this year. But she takes pride in executing them.

“It means everything to me,” she said. “It’s so exciting. Just as a team overall, getting to feel that moment in a close game against a good team. Delivering that goal as a senior captain, it gets me so excited and it gets the team so excited.”

For Harrington and fellow senior standouts Alannah Gallagher and Olivia Gleason, this is a bit of a full-circle year. The three of them, and Lucia Rose, were on varsity as freshmen. Now, the Dragons have nine freshmen and four sophomores they’re leading.

Passing the torch is something Harrington takes very seriously.

“Last year’s captains and seniors definitely passed the torch to the seniors now,” Harrington said. “I look up to them so much, and they passed that torch perfectly and they set the best examples for me in how to be a leader. Now my role is showing the juniors what it’s like to be a role model, leader, the captain.”

Harrington’s freshman year went smoothly largely due to the comfortability she felt playing and communicating with a large senior class at the time. Harrington, Gallagher and Gleason have put an emphasis on extending that to the young group, and Harrington says chemistry so far has been “amazing.”

Najarian can’t emphasize enough how important Harrington’s leadership has been.

“You’ve got to realize the nine or 10 freshmen that I have in the locker room, Addy is like an icon to them,” he said. “These girls watched her play all these years, and now she’s their captain. She’s their leader.”

Scoring 100 points wasn’t something Harrington thought about much as an underclassmen, but felt a jolt to reach the milestone as Madigan and Carney did before her. They joked with her right after the win over Malden Catholic that she should’ve reached the feat when they did last year.

“But the best thing they said is, ‘We want you to pass us, we want you to pass us in points,’” Harrington said.

Entering the weekend, Harrington is at 111 career points – surpassing both of them. And now, a year after falling in the Div. 2 state quarterfinals, Harrington believes in the crew this year to make it back to TD Garden for one more title run.

“We just want to come back even stronger (from last year) and show everyone the real team that we are,” she said. “Being a senior, I want to get there so bad. We’ll do whatever it takes, give 100 percent at every practice and game.”

Ed Burns Coffee Pot Week 2 Pairings

The dates, times and pairings for the second round of the annual Ed Burns Coffee Pot Tournament are official.

In the Doherty Division, Arlington hosts Tewksbury on Sunday at 5:40 p.m. while Hingham hosts Canton on Monday at 6 in the Brinn Division. Woburn hosts Marshfield on Sunday at noon while Walpole hosts Winchester on Sunday at 2:20.

In the consolation of the Brinn Division, Concord-Carlisle hosts Belmont at Chelmsford Forum on Sunday at 3:20 while Braintree faces Franklin in Walpole at 4:30. In the consolation for the Doherty Division, Chelmsford hosts Weymouth at 5:30 on Sunday while Milton faces Reading in the early afternoon at Woburn.