Harvard had some more chances in the final minutes, but Iles again stepped up, saving 13 in the final frame. The Big Red goaltender stopped an open shot by Killorn at 1:23 and corralled a quick shot off the ensuing face-off from freshman Patrick McNally.

Junior Luke Greiner led the Crimson with 12 face-off wins, while Killorn led the team with eight shots in the game.

Throughout the contest, Harvard, which leads all Division I schools with a 34.7 percent success rate on the man-advantage, was able to convert only one of its five power-plays. But the team believes it wasn’t a matter of a problem in the power play.

“I think our power play overall did a pretty good job,” Valek said. “We just weren’t lucky enough to get one more. I think the opportunities were there, but unfortunately the goals didn’t come.”

Although the Crimson outshot the Big Red, 33-19, Harvard had to come back in this one to draw the strong Cornell squad.

“We’ve had a lot of close games this year, a lot of ties, which is encouraging in one aspect,” Moriarty said. “But on the other end of it, we want to come through and start winning the big games. So in order for us to do that we have to keep playing hard for 60, 65 minutes, and make the chances go our way with continued effort throughout the entire game.”

—Staff writer David Mazza can be reached at damazza@college.harvard.edu.