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...outdid even the Rangers' fondest hopes. Lean-jawed, strapping McCartan (6 ft. 1 in., 200 lbs.) stopped Howe eight more times ("The other times he let go from about 20 to 30 feet, and I had it all the way"), helped the last-place Rangers beat Detroit...
Glove Preferred. McCartan grew up ignorant of big-league hockey and its heroes. In his home town of St. Paul there were no pro teams near by, he explains, and "most of us didn't know the league existed." Besides, McCartan was more interested in baseball, developed into a fine third baseman ("I could always use the glove pretty well"), earned All-America honors at Minnesota and a tryout with the Washington Senators. He started playing goalie in ice-lot hockey only because the regular goalie once failed to show up for a game. His baseball still shows...
Starting out against Detroit, McCartan sweated heavily, but kept his head. "All I knew," he said after the game, "is that those guys in jerseys were carrying the puck and coming at me 100 miles an hour. My job was to stop them. If a goalie thinks about their scoring ability, the next thing he's reaching behind him to take the puck...
Head-on Blocking. Just to prove that his first pro performance was no fluke, McCartan did equally well against the Chicago Black Hawks. He had to settle for a 1-1 tie only when, in a melee, the puck bounced off a skate and into the net. Twice, burly Bobby Hull, the league's leading scorer, drove straight for the mouth of the cage. Twice, McCartan met Hull headon, bulled him off balance, and booted the puck away. Conceded Chicago's Glenn Hall, hottest goalie in the league: "He's got a good right skate for kicking...
...N.H.L., officials could recall only a handful of American-born players who had broken the Canadians' monopoly of big-time pro hockey. Most had made it only after fighting their way up through minor-league teams. But at week's end, it looked as if Jack McCartan might join that small and select band-and what's more, do it in one single leap...