Player Prompt

Growing up, Jack McCarthy was not around too many ice skating rinks. Instead, McCarthy spent most of his time on the pond, where he had a friend who was an absolute stud on ice. McCarthy's friend taught Jack just about everything he now knows, from how to skate backwards to how to properly take a slapshot.

It was on this pond that McCarthy found his love for hockey. When he laced up those skates and had free roam on the pond, he felt like he was in a different dimension. The other thing that McCarthy's friend taught him on the pond was how to be competitive. When the group of friends got together on that ice, it was like all bets were off as they competed in different games such as accuracy contests, fastest skater, and of course pick-up games. In those pick-up games is where McCarthy still feels he developed his competitive nature and strong desire to win at all costs.

Now in the SHL, McCarthy still talks fondly of his pond hockey days to anyone who will listen, and you will no doubt see several attributes in his current game that came from those days.