33 Facts About Bobby Hull

1.

Bobby Hull's talents were such that one or two opposing players were often assigned just to shadow him.

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2.

Bobby Hull won the Hart Memorial Trophy as the NHL's most valuable player twice and the Art Ross Trophy as the NHL's leading point scorer three times, while helping the Black Hawks win the Stanley Cup in 1961.

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3.

Bobby Hull led the WHA's Winnipeg Jets to Avco Cup championships in 1976 and 1978.

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4.

Bobby Hull led the NHL in goals seven times, the second most of any player in history, and led the WHA in goals one additional time while being the WHA's most valuable player two times.

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5.

Bobby Hull was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1983, the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 1997, and received the Wayne Gretzky International Award in 2003.

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6.

In 2017 Bobby Hull was named one of the '100 Greatest NHL Players' in history.

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7.

Bobby Hull was the son of Lena Cook and Robert Edward Hull, a cement company foreman.

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8.

Bobby Hull played his minor hockey in Belleville, and then Junior B hockey for the Woodstock Warriors in the fall of 1954.

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9.

Bobby Hull led the Warriors to the 1955 Sutherland Cup as Ontario champions.

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10.

Bobby Hull had a solid debut year finishing second in the Calder Memorial Trophy.

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11.

Bobby Hull originally wore numbers 16 and 7 as a Black Hawk but later switched to his famous number 9, a tribute to his childhood idol Gordie Howe.

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12.

Bobby Hull led Chicago to the Stanley Cup in 1961—their third overall and first in 23 years.

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13.

Bobby Hull eventually scored 54 goals that season, the highest single-season total of the Original Six era.

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14.

That same year, Bobby Hull set the record for the most points in a season with 97, one more than the previous record set by Dickie Moore 7 years earlier.

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15.

Bobby Hull led the league in goal-scoring seven times during the 1960s.

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16.

Long unhappy with his poor salary as one of hockey's preeminent superstars, Bobby Hull responded to overtures from the upstart World Hockey Association's Winnipeg Jets in 1972 by jesting that he would jump to them for a million dollars, a sum then considered absurd.

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17.

Bobby Hull joined the rival league, Hull was not allowed to represent Team Canada in the 1972 Summit Series, which pitted Canada's top NHL players against the USSR's national team.

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18.

Bobby Hull was a key member of the Canadian squad that won the 1976 Canada Cup, though, scoring five goals and three assists in seven games.

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19.

Bobby Hull is the player typically linked most to the rule that banned this practice because of the potential danger to goalies, few of whom wore masks in that era.

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20.

However, after the 1979 merger of the two leagues and reportedly in financial straits, Bobby Hull came out of retirement to play once more for the NHL Jets.

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21.

Bobby Hull played effectively in nine games and three playoff games before retiring once more to care for his partner, who had been injured in an automobile accident.

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22.

In September 1981, Bobby Hull attempted one final comeback with the New York Rangers at age 42, at the suggestion of Rangers coach Herb Brooks, who wanted to try reuniting Bobby Hull with his former Jets teammates, Hedberg and Nilsson.

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23.

The comeback attempt lasted five exhibition games, during which Bobby Hull had one goal and one assist, before he and the Rangers both decided it was best to end the comeback.

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24.

Bobby Hull played in 411 WHA games, scoring 303 goals, 335 assists and 638 points, adding 43 goals and 37 assists in 60 playoff games.

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25.

When Bobby's son Brett Hull joined the Coyotes, they unretired the number for Brett to wear during his brief stint there to honour his father.

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26.

In 1998, Bobby Hull entered controversy after he allegedly made pro-Nazi comments.

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27.

When Bobby Hull was excluded from the 1972 Summit Series because he played in the WHA, Dennis initially planned to boycott the event as well as a show of support for his brother, but Bobby Hull persuaded him to stay on Team Canada.

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28.

Bobby Hull was romantically involved with a woman named Claudia Allen.

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29.

In 1980, Bobby Hull retired from the Hartford Whalers to take care of Allen, who was injured in a severe automobile accident.

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30.

Brett Bobby Hull, was a hockey star, finishing his NHL career with 741 goals .

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31.

Bart Bobby Hull was a standout running back for the Boise State University Broncos football team and played with the Ottawa Rough Riders and Saskatchewan Roughriders in the CFL as well as one season of professional indoor football prior to recurring injuries.

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32.

Bobby Hull's daughter, Michelle, was an accomplished figure skater, becoming British Columbia Pre-Novice Champion at the age of 11.

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33.

Bobby Hull was not aware of his daughter's birth and the baby was put up for adoption.

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