Brett Hull

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Flags of Canada and the United States.svg  Brett Hull Ice hockey player
Hockey Hall of Fame , 2009
Brett Hull
Date of birth August 9, 1964
place of birth Belleville , Ontario , Canada
Nickname The golden board
size 178 cm
Weight 91 kg
position Right wing
number # 16
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1984 , 6th lap, 117th position
Calgary Flames
Career stations
1982-1984 Penticton Knights
1984-1986 University of Minnesota Duluth
1986-1987 Moncton Golden Flames
1987-1988 Calgary Flames
1988-1998 St. Louis Blues
1998-2001 Dallas Stars
2001-2004 Detroit Red Wings
2004-2005 Phoenix Coyotes

Brett Andrew Hull (born August 9, 1964 in Belleville , Ontario ) is a retired Canadian - American ice hockey player and current - functional . Between 1986 and 2005, the right winger played over 1200 games for the Calgary Flames , St. Louis Blues , Dallas Stars , Detroit Red Wings and Phoenix Coyotes in the National Hockey League (NHL). He won the Stanley Cup with the Dallas Stars in 1999 and repeated this success with the Detroit Red Wings in 2002 . However, he spent most of his career with the St. Louis Blues, which he led as team captain, where he holds numerous franchise records and which no longer award his jersey number 16 . With the national team of the USA he won the gold medal at the World Cup of Hockey 1996 and the silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics .

Brett Hull, like his father Bobby , is one of the best players of his generation and one of the best scorer in NHL history with almost 1400 points . With 741 goals only Gretzky , Howe and Jágr scored more goals, while Hull is the fifth and to date last player to score 50 goals in 50 games . Between 1990 and 1992 he was the top scorer in the NHL three times in a row and in 1991 received the Hart Memorial Trophy as well as the Lester B. Pearson Award for most valuable player in the league. In 2009 he was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame .

Career

Brett Hull was drawn at position 117 in the 1984 NHL Entry Draft by the Calgary Flames . From 1985 to 1987 he played for the Calgary Flames, his first game of the season he played in the 1986/87 season. He scored his first goal in his first game of the regular season on November 13, 1986.

Between 1987 and 1998 he played for the St. Louis Blues. In his ten years with the Blues, Hull managed to break through the 100-point mark four times in a row (1989-1993). In the 1990/91 season, the attacker reached the zenith of his career by reaching 131 points scorer (86 goals and 45 assists). In 1998 he signed a contract with the Dallas Stars and won their 1999 and his first Stanley Cup with them . On October 9, 2000, Brett Hull overtook his father on the all-time goalscorer list with his 611th goal. In 2001 he moved to the Detroit Red Wings and won with them again the Stanley Cup ( 2002 ). On August 6, 2004, Hull joined the Phoenix Coyotes .

Thanks to his mother, Brett Hull has both US citizenship and Canadian citizenship . However, he decided early on for the US national team , with which he won the 1996 World Cup of Hockey and the silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Shortly after the start of the 2005-06 NHL season , Hull ended his career. On December 5, 2006, the St. Louis Blues hung a banner with the number 16 under the roof of their stadium in his honor before the game against the Detroit Red Wings. The number is no longer given to any player on the team and is therefore blocked . In 2009 he was honored with the admission to the Hockey Hall of Fame , after he had already considered the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in the previous year .

After the end of his career, he returned to the Dallas Stars organization, where he worked in management. In November 2007 he was named temporary general manager of the team along with Les Jackson . He also analyzed games in the third breaks for the television station NBC . He returned to the St. Louis Blues in 2013 and has served as Executive Vice President since then . In this position, he and the team won the first Stanley Cup in franchise history in the 2019 playoffs .

Achievements and Awards

International

  • 1996 World Cup of Hockey top scorer
  • 1996 World Cup of Hockey All-Star Team
  • 2002 silver medal at the Olympic Winter Games

Records

NHL
  • 86 goals in one season as a right winger ( 1990/91 )
  • 38 power play goals in the playoffs
  • 24 winning goals in the playoffs (together with Wayne Gretzky )
St. Louis Blues
  • All-time top scorer: 527 goals
  • Most goals in one season: 86 goals
  • Most points in one season: 131 points

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1982/83 Penticton Knights BCJHL 50 48 56 104 27 - - - - -
1983/84 Penticton Knights BCJHL 56 105 83 188 20th - - - - -
1984/85 University of Minnesota Duluth NCAA 48 32 28 60 12
1985/86 University of Minnesota Duluth NCAA 42 52 32 84 46
1985/86 Calgary Flames NHL - - - - - 2 0 0 0 0
1986/87 Moncton Golden Flames AHL 67 50 42 92 16 3 2 2 4th 2
1986/87 Calgary Flames NHL 5 1 0 1 0 4th 2 1 3 0
1987/88 Calgary Flames NHL 52 26th 24 50 12 - - - - -
1987/88 St. Louis Blues NHL 13 6th 8th 14th 4th 10 7th 2 9 4th
1988/89 St. Louis Blues NHL 78 41 43 84 33 10 5 5 10 6th
1989/90 St. Louis Blues NHL 80 72 41 113 24 12 13 8th 21st 17th
1990/91 St. Louis Blues NHL 78 86 45 131 22nd 13 11 8th 19th 4th
1991/92 St. Louis Blues NHL 73 70 39 109 48 6th 4th 4th 8th 4th
1992/93 St. Louis Blues NHL 80 54 47 101 41 11 8th 5 13 2
1993/94 St. Louis Blues NHL 81 57 40 97 38 4th 2 1 3 0
1994/95 St. Louis Blues NHL 48 29 21st 50 10 7th 6th 2 8th 0
1995/96 St. Louis Blues NHL 70 43 40 83 30th 13 6th 5 11 10
1996/97 St. Louis Blues NHL 77 42 40 82 10 6th 2 7th 9 2
1997/98 St. Louis Blues NHL 66 27 45 72 26th 10 3 3 6th 2
1998/99 Dallas Stars NHL 60 32 26th 58 30th 22nd 8th 7th 15th 4th
1999/00 Dallas Stars NHL 79 24 35 59 43 23 11 13 24 4th
2000/01 Dallas Stars NHL 79 39 40 79 18th 10 2 5 7th 6th
2001/02 Detroit Red Wings NHL 82 30th 33 63 35 23 10 8th 18th 4th
2002/03 Detroit Red Wings NHL 82 37 39 76 22nd 4th 0 1 1 0
2003/04 Detroit Red Wings NHL 81 25th 43 68 12 12 3 2 5 4th
2004/05 Phoenix Coyotes NHL not played because of lockout
2005/06 Phoenix Coyotes NHL 5 0 1 1 0 - - - - -
BCJHL total 106 153 139 292 47 - - - - -
NCAA overall 90 84 60 144 58
NHL overall 1269 741 650 1391 458 202 103 87 190 73

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1986 United States WM 6th place 10 7th 4th 11 18th
1991 United States Canada Cup 2nd place 8th 2 7th 9 0
1996 United States World cup 1st place, gold 7th 7th 4th 11 4th
1998 United States Olympia 6th place 4th 2 1 3 0
2002 United States Olympia 2nd place, silver 6th 3 5 8th 6th
2004 United States World cup 4th Place 2 0 0 0 2
Men overall 37 21st 21st 42 30th

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

family

His father Bobby Hull forms the only father-son duo of the Hockey Hall of Fame with him. His uncle Dennis Hull was also active in the NHL for many years. His brother Bart Hull also began playing ice hockey, but later ran into the Canadian Football League .

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personal data
SURNAME Hull, Brett
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hull, Brett Andrew (full name); The Golden Brett (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian-American ice hockey player and official
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Belleville , Ontario , Canada