Mike Karakas

Mike Karakas
Mike Karakas
Born December 12, 1911(1911-12-12)
Aurora, MN, USA
Died May 2, 1992(1992-05-02) (aged 80)
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Weight 147 lb (67 kg; 10 st 7 lb)
Position Goaltender
Caught Left
Played for Chicago Black Hawks
Playing career 19351946

Mike Karakas (December 12, 1911 – May 2, 1992) was an American professional ice hockey goaltender in the National Hockey League (NHL) who was the league's first American-born and trained goaltender.[1] Karakas played six full seasons and parts of two others with Chicago Black Hawks. He appeared in two Stanley Cup Finals, winning once. In 1938, Karakas led Chicago, who had .411 winning percentage in the regular season, to a second Stanley Cup, playing with a steel-toed boot in the last two games of the Finals after he had broken it in the last game of the Semi-finals. Karakas is one of the original members of the United States Hockey Hall of Fame.

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Biography

Born in Aurora, Minnesota, he grew up in nearby Eveleth. Growing up, Karakas and Frank Brimsek, who also became a goaltender in the NHL, were battery mates for their high school baseball team, with Karakas catching.[2]

Karakas played six full seasons for the Chicago Black Hawks between 1936 and 1945. In his first season with the Black Hawks, Karakas was awarded the Calder Memorial Trophy after posting a 1.85 goals-against-average with nine shutouts in 48 games. Karakas was only invited to play for the Black Hawks because their regular goaltender, Lorne Chabot, was injured. After posting four wins in four games, with three shutouts, the Black Hawks made Karakas their starting goaltender; Chabot was later traded to the Montreal Maroons.[2]

Karakas won the Stanley Cup in the 193738 season, playing for the first out of two teams which won the Cup with a losing record. For the 1937-38 Chicago Black Hawks season, their owner, Major Frederic McLaughlin, order his general manager to "ice [him] a team of all American players."[3] After losing five of its six first games with an all-American roster, some Canadian players were added; however, the team finished the season with an 14259 record for a .411 winning percentage.[4]

In the playoffs, Karakas suffered a broken toe just before the start of the Stanley Cup final against the Toronto Maple Leafs. The Black Hawks were forced to substitute Alfie Moore for Karakas in the first game. After the first game, Moore was ruled ineligible, and the Black Hawks lost the next game. Karakas returned with a steel-toed boot and won the next two games, leading the Black Hawks to their second Stanley Cup win.[4] Overall in that playoff run, Karakas had a 62 record, with two shutouts and a 1.71 goals-against-average.[2] Karakas also surrendered an overtime goal clinching a Stanley Cup by Toe Blake in the 1944 Stanley Cup Finals.

After helping Chicago win the Stanley Cup in 1938, Karakas asked the team's owners for a US$500 raise. The owners refused the raise, and for the next five seasons Karakas played three full seasons in the American Hockey League (AHL), and split two between the AHL and the NHL.[5]

Karakas had 28 shutouts in the regular season, and another three in the playoffs in his six seasons in the NHL.[6] In each of the six full seasons in which Karakas appeared, he played all 48 games. In 1973, Karakas was named as an original member of the United States Hockey Hall of Fame, located in his hometown of Eveleth.[1][7]

Awards and achivements

Career statistics

Regular season

Season Team League GP W L T MIN GA SO GAA
193031 Chicago Shamrocks AHA 8 5 2 0 435 16 0 2.21
193132 Chicago Shamrocks AHA 45 29 11 5 2624 65 9 1.59
193233 St. Louis Flyers AHA 43 23 19 1 2702 85 5 1.89
193334 Tulsa Oilers AHA 48 23 25 0 2918 110 7 2.26
193435 Tulsa Oilers AHA 41 20 17 4 2640 77 4 1.52
193536 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 48 21 19 8 2990 92 9 1.85
193637 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 48 14 27 7 2978 131 5 2.64
193738 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 48 14 25 9 2980 139 1 2.80
193839 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 48 12 28 8 2988 132 5 2.65
193940 Providence Reds IAHL 14 7 5 2 860 43 1 3.00
193940 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 17 7 9 1 1050 58 0 3.31
193940 Montreal Canadiens NHL 5 0 4 1 310 18 0 3.48
194041 Providence Reds AHL 56 31 21 4 3540 171 0 2.97
194142 Providence Reds AHL 56 17 32 7 3470 237 1 4.10
194142 New Haven Eagles AHL 1 0 1 0 60 7 0 7.00
194243 Providence Reds AHL 56 27 27 2 3430 216 2 3.78
194344 Providence Reds AHL 24 6 15 3 1440 67 0 3.63
194344 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 26 12 9 5 1560 79 3 3.04
194445 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 48 12 29 7 2880 187 4 3.90
194546 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 48 22 19 7 2880 166 1 3.46
194647 Providence Reds AHL 62 21 31 10 3720 266 0 4.29
194748 Providence Reds AHL 2 1 1 0 120 7 0 3.50
NHL totals 336 114 169 53 20,616 1002 28 2.92

Playoffs

Season Team League GP W L MIN GA SO GAA
1932-32 Chicago Shamrocks AHA 4 3 1 242 10 0 2.48
1932-33 St. Louis Flyers AHA 4 2 2 284 6 1 1.27
1933-34 Tulsa Oilers AHA 4 2 2 260 7 1 1.62
1934-35 Tulsa Oilers AHA 2 0 2 130 8 0 3.69
193536 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 2 1 1 120 7 0 3.50
193738 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 8 6 2 525 15 2 1.71
1939-40 Providence Reds AHL 8 6 2 545 21 2 2.31
1940-41 Providence Reds AHL 4 1 3 279 13 0 2.60
1941-42 Springfield Indians AHL 3 0 2 160 7 0 2.63
1942-43 Providence Reds AHL 2 0 2 130 7 0 3.23
194344 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 9 4 5 549 24 1 2.62
194546 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 4 0 4 240 26 0 6.50
NHL totals 23 11 12 1434 72 3 3.01

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Without Fear: Hockey's 50 greatest goaltenders. Chicago: Triumph Books. 2002. p223. ISBN 1-57243-48-4-8. 
  2. ^ a b c Without Fear: Hockey's 50 greatest goaltenders. Chicago: Triumph Books. 2002. p224. ISBN 1-57243-48-4-8. 
  3. ^ Pincus, Arthur (2006). The Official Illustrated NHL History. Montreal: Reader's Digest. p52. ISBN 0-88850-800-X. 
  4. ^ a b Pincus, Arthur (2006). The Official Illustrated NHL History. Montreal: Reader's Digest. p53. ISBN 0-88850-800-X. 
  5. ^ Without Fear: Hockey's 50 greatest goaltenders. Chicago: Triumph Books. 2002. p225. ISBN 1-57243-48-4-8. 
  6. ^ "Mike Karakas (1935-1946)". hockeygoalies.org. http://hockeygoalies.org/bio/karakas.html. Retrieved 2008-07-18. 
  7. ^ "Mike Karakas". Hockey Hall of Fame. http://www.legendsofhockey.net:8080/LegendsOfHockey/jsp/SearchPlayer.jsp?player=18576. Retrieved 2008-07-18. 
Preceded by
Sweeney Schriner
NHL Rookie of the Year
1936
Succeeded by
Syl Apps

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