# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mike-karakas
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:41:46.222Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mike-karakas"
name: "Mike Karakas"
slug: "mike-karakas"
description: "Michael George Karakas was an American professional ice hockey goaltender in the National Hockey League (NHL). He was the league's first American-born and -trained goaltender. He played eight seasons with the Chicago Black Hawks and appeared in two Stanley Cup Finals. In 1938, he helped Chicago, who had a .411 winning percentage in the regular season, win the Stanley Cup, playing with a steel-toed boot on one foot in the last two games of the Finals after he had broken it in the last game of the Semi-finals. He is one of the charter members of the United States Hockey Hall of Fame."
tagline: "American ice hockey goaltender (1911–1992)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/MikeKarakas.png?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1911-12-12"
deathDate: "1992-05-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.95
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.540029333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%81"
    title: "Майк Каракас"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%83%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "مايك كراكاس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "ميك كاراكاس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Karakas"
    title: "Mike Karakas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Karakas"
    title: "Mike Karakas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C%CE%AC%CE%B9%CE%BA_%CE%9A%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%AC%CE%BA%CE%B1%CF%82"
    title: "Μάικ Καράκας"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Karakas"
    title: "Mike Karakas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Karakas"
    title: "Mike Karakas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%81%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA"
    title: "Каракас, Майк"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Karakas"
    title: "Mike Karakas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3313389"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump