Sophomore winger Kalen Ingram put Harvard on the board first, with 1:40 left in the opening period. Straight off the faceoff from Botterill, Ingram snapped the puck inside the right post before Silva could react. It was her 14th goal of the season.

Harvard lost the lead in the second period as Northeastern got on the board with a shorthanded goal. Defender Erica Archambeau skated through the Crimson defense and broke in on Harvard freshman goaltender Jessica Ruddock. She stopped the initial shot, but the rebound bounced high in the air and winger Betsy Dyke was able to control it and tie the game.

"We played some very careless defense, and it cost us," Stone said. "And we weren't as well off offensively as we needed to be. We gave up some easy ones just because there were some defensive lapses."

The next two Huskie goals came in quick succession, 16:45 and 19:46 into the second period. The first came from second-line center Colleen Coen, who drilled the puck home on a behind-the-net pass from winger Jennifer Santorre.

On the final Northeastern goal, Ruddock coughed up a rebound that deflected right back to the Huskie's Kim Greene. Wasting no time, Greene sent the puck back through the five-hole to give Northeastern a two-goal lead.

"Ruddock's a freshman and you're going to see glimpses of that now and then, but she battled and came up big when she needed to," Stone said. "She's learning, and this is the biggest game she's played in as a freshman at Harvard."

The Crimson had every reason to believe it was capable of coming back from the two-goal deficit. It had pulled off such feats before.

"You draw from the last game, you draw from last year," Shewchuk said. "Every game presents a different challenge. It's not just that we can come back against Northeastern, we can come back against Dartmouth, Minnesota-Duluth--anyone."