Boston College goaltender Katie Burt is pictured with her grandfather, Bob Burt, grandmother, Carol Roepsch, and mother, Chris Burt, following the championship game of the Women’s Beanpot Tournament Tuesday night at Harvard.
Katie Burt had to do something that she hadn’t yet done in her amazing freshman season for the No. 1-ranked Boston College hockey team: reflect on a defeat.
Burt and the Eagles had just suffered their first loss of the season, 3-2, to Harvard in the championship game of the Women’s Beanpot Tournament Tuesday night at the Bright-Landry Hockey Center in Cambridge, which is not far from the Lynn resident’s former home rink at Buckingham Browne and Nichols.
But Burt graciously stopped by the media lounge to talk about her team’s upset at the hands of the Lady Crimson, whom BC had beaten, 10-2, on November 28.
Burt had 14 saves in the final and played a scoreless third period but the night belonged to opposing goaltender, Emerance Maschmeyer, who made 30 saves and kept the nation’s leading scorer and arguably the world’s best female hockey player, Alex Carpenter, off the scoresheet.
Maschmeyer, who was named Most Outstanding Goalie and MVP of the tournament, said she didn’t alter her philosophy playing opposite Burt and the nation’s highest-scoring offense.
“It doesn’t matter who I’m going up against,” said Maschmeyer. “For me, I always look across the ice and say, ‘I’m going to win this battle.’ I just have to outplay the other goalie to win. That’s how I think of it. So no matter who it is, I play the same way and my game plan sticks and I prepare the same way.”
Burt allowed three goals, the first one coming after the puck hit Harvard player Mary Parker’s skate after Burt made the initial pad save. The referees confirmed the goal after reviewing the video.
“I just left the rebound out there and she [Parker] was kind of stopping as she was coming to the net,” said Burt.
Burt credited Maschmeyer for her play in the Harvard net, especially in the third period when BC had a number of good scoring opportunities.
“She played well. She made a lot of key saves. I thought we had a few missed opportunities but they’re not all going to go your way.”
Burt said it was disappointing to lose the Beanpot, a tournament that is second to none in college hockey.
“The Beanpot was definitely one of our goals but we’re not done,” said Burt. “We’re still working toward a national championship and a Hockey East title.”
Burt is proud of what she and her teammates have accomplished to-date. Burt is the nation’s top goalie and her team was 27-0-1 before Tuesday’s setback.
“Overall we’re really proud of what we’ve done and hopefully we can pick it up and look past this – it’s a tough loss but I think we’ll rebound pretty well.”