Height: 6-1
Weight: 205
Catch: L
Born: 5 Aug 1935, St. Paul MN
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Regular Season Goaltending Record (key)
| year | team | ||||||||
| 1972-73 | Minnesota | ||||||||
| 1973-74 | Minnesota | ||||||||
| 1974-75 | Minnesota | ||||||||
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Playoff Goaltending Record
| year | team | ||||||||
| 1973 | Minnesota | ||||||||
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• Member, United States Olympic Team, 1960.
Shutouts
| Date | Opponent | Home/Away | Score | Saves |
| Dec 21, 1972 | Winnipeg | Home | 3-0 | 32 |
Regular Season Coaching Record
| Regular Season | Playoffs |
| year | team | finish | finish | |||||||||
| 1973-74 | Minnesota | Interim | ||||||||||
| 1974-75 | Minnesota | Interim | ||||||||||
• Coached in absence of Harry Neale, who was serving a suspension, January 1974.
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Jack McCartan Really Has Class • by Charley Hallman • The Hockey Spectator • March 16, 1973
On Murray Williamson's wall in the confines of the Metropolitan Sports Center in Bloomington is a picture of a Fighting Saint. A Fighting Saint on the wall of the Minnesota North Stars' Vice President for Special Projects? Yup. It's true. And Williamson concedes the gentleman in question is just a great guy. "Jack McCartan really has class." McCartan is pictured with Williamson of the North Stars, Herb Brooks of the Minnesota Gophers, Jim Rantz of the Minnesota Twins and many others in a 1958 University of Minnesota hockey team portrait. That club defeated eventual National Champion Denver three of the four times they met. "In those days, only the champion and runnerup had a chance to go to the NCAA tournament," said McCartan, who tended goal for the Gophers. "We finished in third place after a terrible start." But while he was al Minnesola, MeCartan did play on a national champion — the 1956 Gopher baseball team, McCartan hit well over .300, played third base and made "All American". He didn't earn that title in hockey until two years later. McCartan, a native of St. Paul, started out at Marshall High School. "We may have won six or seven games in the four years I played," he recalled. "I used to get 40-50 shots a game and we were only playing eight or 10 minute periods then." But McCartan said he really didn't develop as a goaltender "until I got to the University and was on the indoor ice for a couple of hours every day. I really hadn't known that much about the game." McCartan then went into the army for a couple of years and when he got out, joined the United States Olympic team in 1960. Nearly everyone who knows about the sport has heard or read of Jack's legendary performance at Squaw Valley when the U.S, won the hockey gold medal and defeated the Russians. "It was my greatest thrill in sports," said Jack. McCartan played briefly with the New York Rangers after the Olympics were over. He got into four games and had a goals against average of 1.75. The following year he started again with Now York, but after opening the season with a shutout, things began to go badly for him ard he was sent to the minors "for more seasoning". He returned this year with the Saints after spending the last four seasons in San Diego. McCartan says the Saints' first season has "been up and down. We started poorly, then did very well for awhile and have leveled off to where we're working hard to make the playoffs." Jack would like to stay in hockey when his playing days are over. He's at the end of the first year of a two-season contract. "The game of hockey has been my life. Hopefully, I'll be able to get a job when I'm through playing goal." Saint General Manager Glen Sonmor believes McCartan "will be in our organization for a tong time." "I have been very impressed with Jack. He's a fine man and very knowledgeable about the sport. When he's through playing, I'm sure we'll have a job for him." |
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