Mike Karakas, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American ice hockey goaltender
Date of Birth: 12-Dec-1911
Place of Birth: Aurora, Minnesota, United States
Date of Death: 02-May-1992
Profession: ice hockey player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Mike Karakas
- Michael George Karakas (December 2, 1911 – May 2, 1992) was an American professional ice hockey goaltender in the National Hockey League (NHL).
- He was the league's first American-born and trained goaltender and the first player of Greek descent.
- Karakas played six full seasons and parts of two others with the Chicago Black Hawks and appeared in two Stanley Cup Finals, winning once.
- In 1938, he led Chicago, who had a .411 winning percentage in the regular season, to a second 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.
- Karakas is one of the original members of the United States Hockey Hall of Fame.
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