Bobby Hull

Robert Marvin Hull, born January 3, 1939 in Pointe Anne (near Belleville), Ontario, Canada, is regarded as one of the greatest ice hockey players and perhaps the greatest left winger to ever play the game.

Post NHL

Bobby Hull won higher salaries for his fellow players, and gave credibility to a new rival league up against the entrenched NHL, when he jumped to the fledgling World Hockey Association's (WHA) Winnipeg Jets (since then has become the Phoenix Coyotes) for an unheard of $1,000,000, 10-year contract in 1972. Though the league folded in 1979 (with four of its teams including the Winnipeg Jets joining the NHL), it was reborn in 2003 and named him as its commissioner - see the New World Hockey Association page.

Related Topics:
World Hockey Association - Winnipeg Jets - Phoenix Coyotes - New World Hockey Association

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Because he joined to the rival league, Hull was not allowed to play for the NHL team representing Canada in the 1972 Series but in 1974 he played for the WHA team representing Canada against the great USSR national team. The WHA lost the series 4 games to 1, with 3 ties. He was a key member of the Canadian squad that won the 1976 Canada Cup.

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In 1978 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

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In 1998, Hull got involved in a controversy by the Russian media, when he allegedly made pro-Nazi comments. He later claimed the interviewer misunderstood him in the translation.

Related Topics:
1998 - Russia - Nazi

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A member of one of the great families of hockey, his son, Brett Hull (the Golden Brett), stars in the National Hockey League and his little brother, Dennis Hull, played alongside him for the Chicago Black Hawks, (and was sometimes referred to as "the Silver Jet.")

Related Topics:
Brett Hull - Dennis Hull

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