Senior forward Kaitlin Spurling added to her season’s point total while giving Harvard some addittional breathing room.

Her one-timer, set up by sophomore forward Samantha Reber, put the exclamation point on what turned out to be a strong all-around performance.

The Crimson powerplay unit’s success flew in the face of a few regular-season trends.

Coming into the game, Harvard converted on just 16 percent of opportunities while Dartmouth had one of the better powerplay kills in the conference at 87 percent.

The Big Green’s best opportunity of the night also came in the third on a powerplay. The would-be equalizer was acrobatically kicked away by Maschmeyer.

“Their player picked it up and I followed it to the other side of the net,” Maschmeyer said of the second-chance opportunity. “I think that was my biggest [save] of the night. It was kind of a momentum-stopper for them and big for us.”

Including its second win over Dartmouth on Saturday, Harvard has outshot its opponents 235-106 in its last six contests.

“We’ve been dominating teams in my opinion,” Dempsey said. “It was great tonight that we were able to get on the board as much as we did because when that effort starts to pay off, our confidence goes up a little.... Hopefully there is more where that came from.”

—Staff writer Daniel A. Grafstein can be reached at dgrafstein@college.harvard.edu.