A little under nine minutes in, junior defenseman Danny Biega took a shot from the right point which Bears goaltender Michael Clemente deflected right to Killorn in the slot. The senior pumped it past the Bears netminder just eight seconds after the start of the power play, giving the visitors the 1-0 lead.

But Killorn’s first-period scoring wasn’t finished just yet.

Exactly eight minutes later, with 3:14 remaining in the period, the senior struck again, scoring from the point for his 20th goal of the season.

Though Harvard held the two-goal advantage at the end of the first 20 minutes, the Bears had plenty of chances to score, including a three-on-two fastbreak midway through the period that nearly tied the game at one apiece. But Brown, which notched 12 shots to Harvard’s six, couldn’t get on the board in the first frame.

That quickly changed in the second, as Brown halved the deficit under two minutes in.  Standing in the slot, Crimson defenseman Danny Fick couldn’t clear the puck, and Smith made the sophomore pay, beating Girard to make it a one-goal game.

The Crimson struck next 11 minutes later. After taking the puck from Biega, Killorn skated around and lost the puck. But Fallstrom found it in the slot, and while falling, lofted it over the left shoulder of Clemente to help Harvard recapture the two-goal lead.

“It was obviously a big goal. We thought it was going to be the difference maker in the game,” Killorn said.

The Bears managed one more in the second period, but the Crimson held the tenuous 3-2 lead through the end of the second period and for most of the third.

But with just 1:46 left on the clock, Brown tied it up. With a scrum in front of the net, the puck squirted past Girard, forcing the game into a five-minute overtime period. Bears freshman forward Massimo Lamacchia was credited with the score.

“I played it badly, and I think I lost track of it,” Girard said. “I don’t even know how it went in.”

Harvard outshot Brown, 4-1, in the overtime period, but the opportunities proved fruitless as the Crimson failed to find the back of the net.

The scoreless extra time gave the Crimson its NCAA-record 11th tie, a feat which elicited mixed reactions from the team.

“I think you could look at it two ways,” Killorn said. “A lot of those games we came back, and we showed a lot of resiliency, but...a few of these games we’ve just given away. You don’t know how to feel about it. It’s a record.... But it’s a double-edged sword.”

—Staff writer Robert S. Samuels can be reached at robertsamuels@college.harvard.edu.