Buesser played the puck up from the corner to Gedman, who sent in a shot from the blue line. Ryabkina tipped the shot past Callahan, tying the score once again.

Gedman’s two assists marked her first career collegiate points.

“She played well—she’s tough, she’s a winner,” Stone said of Gedman. “She knows how to do it. She wants to make things happen, [and] she has a great feel for the game.”

The Crimson came out strong to start the third period, shutting the Bulldogs down on a power-play chance and limiting Yale to just four shots in the frame. But one of those four put the Bulldogs on top again.

With just over nine minutes left in regulation, a series of Bulldog shots forced Bellamy to sprawl onto the ice. Though the sophomore stopped the initial barrage, Alyssa Zupon was finally able to slip one past her to make the score 3-2.

Harvard picked up its play in the final minutes of the period, but Yale managed to hold off the onslaught until the final seconds. Grant was sent to the box for bodychecking with 1:52 to play, and Stone pulled Bellamy with 40 seconds on the clock to give her squad a 6-on-4 advantage.

After sophomore Josephine Pucci clanged a shot off the crossbar, the Crimson offense regrouped. Tri-captain Leanna Coskren set up Ryabkina high in the left circle, and Ryabkina’s slapshot was dead on.

“We’re going to ride the seniors and expect a lot from them,” Stone said. “They’re ready to go, and they know how things have been done in the past, and you’re going to see that all year.”

Although Harvard dominated play in overtime, getting off four shots to the Bulldogs’ zero, it couldn’t capitalize on a power play and the game ended in a 3-3 deadlock.

Callahan—who had played just 20 minutes total last season—finished with 32 saves.

The game also marked Joakim Flygh’s return to Bright. Flygh, an assistant with the Crimson for the last three seasons, was named Yale’s head coach in late July.

But though Flygh came close to earning a major upset in his first conference game as head coach, Harvard’s depth proved to be too much in the end.

“Like I just said to the kids, it took a lot of character to come back,” Stone said. “It was a great hockey game, and again, it was exciting that we were able to tie it up. But I think I would have liked to see us strike first and get after it instead of playing catch-up all the time.”

—Staff writer Kate Leist can be reached at kleist@fas.harvard.edu.