66 Facts About Brett Hull

Brett Hull played for the Calgary Flames, St Louis Blues, Dallas Stars, Detroit Red Wings and Phoenix Coyotes between 1986 and 2005.

Brett Hull was a member of two Stanley Cup winning teams – 1999 with the Dallas Stars and 2002 with the Detroit Red Wings.

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

Brett Hull scored 50 the following year with the Moncton Golden Flames of the American Hockey League and had five consecutive NHL seasons of at least 50 goals.

Brett Hull was named a first team all-star on three occasions and played in eight NHL All-Star Games.

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Brett Hull was a member of the team that won the 1996 World Cup of Hockey and was a two-time Olympian, winning a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Brett Hull was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2009, joining his father Bobby Brett Hull.

Brett Hull's father, Bobby, was a long-time professional hockey player in both the National Hockey League and World Hockey Association .

Brett Hull's mother, Joanne, was an American professional figure skater and taught him how to skate.

Brett Hull moved to Vancouver with his mother and two youngest siblings shortly before his parents' acrimonious divorce in 1979.

Brett Hull was not close to his father following the breakup, though the two spoke periodically.

Brett Hull was first eligible for the NHL Entry Draft in 1982, but as he was still playing in a juvenile league, was passed over without interest.

Brett Hull was again passed over at the 1983 Entry Draft as teams remained unconvinced of his commitment to the game and his conditioning.

Brett Hull was awarded the Jerry Chumola Award as the school's rookie of the year and received similar honors from the Western Collegiate Hockey Association .

Brett Hull was named the WCHA first-team all-star at right wing and was a finalist for the Hobey Baker Award as the top player in the National Collegiate Athletic Association .

Brett Hull holds the records for most goals by a rookie and most goals in one season .

Brett Hull's best scoring opportunity came when he hit the post in his first shift of the game.

Brett Hull appeared in two games of the Flames' five-game series loss to Montreal.

Brett Hull scored 50 goals, tying an AHL rookie record, and his 93 points was third-best in the league.

Brett Hull won the Dudley "Red" Garrett Memorial Award as the league's rookie of the year and was named to the first all-star team.

Brett Hull earned a brief recall to Calgary during the season.

Brett Hull appeared in five regular-season games for the Flames and played in four playoff games where he scored two goals and added an assist.

Brett Hull appeared in 52 games for the Flames, scoring 26 goals and 50 points.

Brett Hull led the league in goal scoring all three seasons and was named to the first All-Star team each year.

Brett Hull collected numerous league awards, winning the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy in 1990 as the league's most sportsmanlike player, then in 1991, won the Hart Memorial Trophy and Lester B Pearson Award as the NHL's most valuable player as selected by the league and his fellow players respectively.

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Brett Hull, who had been named team captain in 1992, was stripped of the captaincy.

Brett Hull responded three nights later with a hat trick against the Los Angeles Kings to reach 500 goals for his NHL career.

At 14:51 of the third overtime period, Brett Hull collected a rebound in front of the Buffalo net and put the puck past goaltender Dominik Hasek to win the game, and the Stanley Cup, for Dallas.

Replays showed that Brett Hull's skate was within the crease when he scored the NHL ruled that he had possession of the puck prior to entering the crease, making the goal legal.

Brett Hull joined an already star-studded team that earlier that same offseason had acquired goaltender Dominik Hasek, and signed winger Luc Robitaille.

Brett Hull subsequently scored 30 goals that season as the Red Wings dominated their opponents, earning the President's Trophy as the NHL's top team.

Brett Hull scored key goals in Detroit's game three and four victories against the Carolina Hurricanes in the Stanley Cup Finals; the latter was the 100th playoff goal of his career.

Brett Hull won his second career championship as the Red Wings won the series in five games.

However, after playing just five games and recording one assist, Brett Hull felt that he was no longer able to play at the level he expected of himself.

Brett Hull accepted and led the team in scoring with 7 goals and 11 points for the sixth place Americans.

Brett Hull later said the faith shown in him by American officials gave him the confidence to excel in his career.

Brett Hull tied Mike Modano for the American scoring lead at the 1991 Canada Cup with nine points.

Brett Hull led all players with 11 points and was a tournament all-star at forward.

Brett Hull was a natural goal scorer with a reputation for being uninterested in backchecking and playing defense.

Brett Hull was often compared to Bobby in his early years, though the two shared few similarities on the ice.

Brett Hull was a -27 four years later despite scoring 54 goals.

Brett Hull carried a reputation as a player who could not win as his Blues' teams rarely achieved success in the playoffs.

Brett Hull shed that reputation after leading his teams to championships at the 1996 World Cup of Hockey and the 1999 Stanley Cup Finals.

Brett Hull finished that season with a career-best plus-minus of +19.

Brett Hull chastised his own fans in 1992 – later backtracking – when they booed Adam Oates following Oates' trade request, calling them "losers" and stating he wanted to rip one particular fan's head off.

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Brett Hull played in eight NHL All-Star Games, and was named the most valuable player of the 1992 game in Philadelphia.

Brett Hull is second all-time in power play goals with 265 and third in game-winning goals with 110.

Brett Hull scored 33 hat tricks in his career, the fourth highest in NHL history.

Brett Hull holds numerous St Louis Blues franchise records, including goals, power play goals, game-winning goals and hat tricks .

Brett Hull holds the organization's single-season records of goals and points .

Brett Hull was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 2008, and into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2009.

Brett Hull served as a special assistant to the team president of the Dallas Stars and provided studio analysis for NHL on NBC telecasts.

Brett Hull left NBC after one season when he was named a special adviser to the team's hockey operations department.

ESPN analyst Scott Burnside criticized the promotion of Brett Hull, noting his lack of front office experience and questionable work ethic.

Brett Hull credited Hull for his positive relationship with the players and his "unconventional wisdom".

Brett Hull remained with the organization, serving as an adviser to Hicks and team president Jeff Cogen.

Brett Hull has since been hired by the St Louis Blues as their executive vice president for business development.

Brett Hull has three children by his first wife, Alison: son Jude and daughters Jayde and Crosby.

Brett Hull attended St Olaf College until 2018, he never played professionally.

In business, Brett Hull was twice involved in the operation of restaurants.

Brett Hull owned two eateries in St Louis while he was a member of the Blues, and partnered with Mike Modano and others on a Dallas restaurant called "Hully and Mo Restaurant and Tap Room" following his playing career.

Brett Hull lent his name to a 1995 Super Nintendo Entertainment System video game called Brett Hull Hockey.

Brett Hull was a co-owner of the St Louis Bandits, a junior team in the North American Hockey League.

Brett Hull is an avid golfer, often stating during his career that he preferred the sport to hockey.

Brett Hull is a frequent participant in the American Century Celebrity Golf Classic and his best finish at the tournament is a tie for fifth in 2008.

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Brett Hull competes in several charity and celebrity tournaments, and in 2009 was ranked as the sixth best athlete golfer in North America by Golf Digest.