He had scored 41 the previous year, a fine total but not the stuff of legend. Hull called 1989-90 a 'dream season' because the 72 goals were unexpected. 'As he's looking for the pass, he knows where the net is.' 'He has probably the quickest release in hockey,' Blues goalie Curtis Joseph said. With strong forearms and huge hands, he scores more with snap and wrist shots.

His son, 'The Golden Brett,' who shares his father's blond hair and radiant smile, takes fewer slap shots.

'When you look at who has done this, and who hasn't, it is some pretty amazing company to be in,' Hull said.īobby Hull was feared for the booming slap shot he unleashed after a rush up the ice. Gretzky has done it three times, in 39, 42 and 49 games. Only Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux have turned the trick in fewer games. He is the first Hull to score 50 goals in 50 games or less. 49 and 50 against Detroit on Friday in the Blues' forty-ninth game. This season, the Blues have played 51 games Hull has 52 goals. Hull had 72 goals last season, the most of any right wing in NHL history, and then he signed a $7.1-million contract that helped shake the salary structure of the league. Growing up, it was always 'Bobby Hull's son, Bobby Hull's son, Bobby Hull's son.' But you learn you can't live on someone's coattails.' 'I'll always be Bobby Hull's son, but I'm trying to emerge a little myself,' Brett said. And he doesn't mind.īut, clearly, they are two different people. He recognizes there are parallels to his life and that of his father _ the ability to score goals, the way they helped build or rebuild franchises and their status as ambassadors of hockey. Only survive, but thrive as his own person. For so many years it has been the other way, so many years of being Bobby Hull's son, as if Brett might not exist had his fleet-footed father _ 'The Golden Jet' _ not scored 913 goals in a quarter-century of hockey.īut with Brett Hull scoring goals at a pace that only few have matched, the sporting world is realizing now what the younger Hull discovered years back: He can not Brett Hull laughed too when the conversation was replayed for him later.

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