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...hard. Sprawling, the New York Rangers' rookie goalie flung out his left leg, and the puck thunked into it. At the next whistle, a Ranger defenseman skated over to the goalie. "Nice stop on Gordie Howe," he said. "Who the hell is Gordie Howe?" asked Goalie Jack McCartan politely...
Fresh from his splendid performance in the U.S.'s upset victory in the Olympics, McCartan was as unawed by the National Hockey League stars as he had been by the Russians. After watching him at work in Squaw Valley, the Rangers had quickly invited him for a five-game tryout. McCartan, 24, now an Army specialist four with four months left to serve, took a furlough and came...
...McCartan and his U.S. teammates came of age at Squaw Valley. Against the hard-shooting Canadians, Goalie McCartan turned acrobat to stop 39 shots, save the day while his buddies made up for their lack of teamwork by scrap and scramble...
Next came the Russians, who passed the puck back and forth with the ease of pro basketball players setting up a play. But Defenseman Mayasich and Captain John Kirrane felled attacking Russians in wind rows, slid to the ice time and again to block shots with their bodies. McCartan himself covered every corner of the cage with his big stick and big glove, bought time for hardy forwards like the Clearys and Minnesota's Bill Christian to wear down the Russians by sheer superior skating, swing the balance of the game in the third period. Final score...
...hint. He procured an oxygen bottle, gave Bob Cleary and his weary-legged mates a whiff. They promptly rallied for six goals and a 9-4 victory, skated off with the first U.S. gold medal in hockey. When the game was done, the man they mobbed was Goalie Jack McCartan, the sub who had become a star when it counted...