Mike Karakas
American ice hockey goaltender (1911-1992) · United States · On the map · Athletes · Died at 80
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.
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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.
