The Crimson’s best opportunities to even the score came late in the third period. Harvard went on a power play with under four minutes left in the game but failed to convert.

Later, when the Crimson pulled Bellamy to give itself a 6-on-5 advantage, Buesser and junior defenseman Leanna Coskren nearly collaborated on a scoring effort. Buesser pushed the puck over to Coskren, who returned it with a hard pass. Buesser tried to tip in a goal, but the shot went wide.

“We had a chance to put it in but it didn’t work out,” Buesser said. “The hockey gods were not in our favor.”

PRINCETON 3, HARVARD 3

The Tigers caught a rusty Crimson team off-guard on Friday, wasting little time getting on the board with two goals in the game’s first nine minutes.

But Harvard settled down in its defensive zone and then took to the attack. The Crimson cut the deficit in half 11:45 into the first, when senior forward Anna McDonald scored off of junior Ashley Wheeler’s assist.

After the first intermission, Harvard completed its first comeback effort of the game, tying the score on freshman defenseman Kelsey Romatoski’s first career goal.

“We’ve come back a lot this year,” Stone said. “[The Harvard skaters] kept the game very simple. They used the people that were open.”

Princeton seemed to stymie the Crimson’s momentum when the Tigers’ Paula Romanchuk scored her second goal of the game with three minutes left in the second period. But Harvard had one more comeback left in it.

Princeton’s Charissa Stadnyk was called for high sticking 15:39 into the final frame, and the Crimson took advantage of the power-play opportunity. Freshman Jillian Dempsey found the net to once again bring the score even, with Buesser and Coskren picking up assists.

“We had gotten our forecheck rolling at that point,” Buesser said. “We were getting a lot of shots on goal. We got the power play and it really fell into place.”

Harvard got off the lone shot of the overtime period, but neither team was able to break the tie before time expired.

—Staff writer Loren Amor can be reached at lamor@fas.harvard.edu