Owner of the game’s most feared wrist shot, he was the leading vote-getter for the All-Star game this season, outpolling Gretzky by almost 120,000 votes. Other than Gretzky, the personable Hull, 26, might be the most marketable player in the NHL.
He scored 50 goals in the first 50 games of the season, joining Gretzky, Lemieux, Maurice Richard and Mike Bossy as the only players to accomplish the feat. He exceeded it while leading the Blues’ season-long battle against the Chicago Blackhawks for the Norris Division championship. He knew he would be expected to repeat his glorious season. After earning $125,000 last season, the 5-foot-10, 195-pound right wing signed his new contract last summer after threatening to leave the Blues as a free agent. Hull scored 72 goals last season, a record for a wing that he broke again this month. It’s a game that happens so fast, you just can’t do that.” I don’t plan what I’m going to do each shift. It’s an instinctive game, and I just go on my instincts. I let everyone else do the work while I get into the openings, into the slots.
“I’m hard to check because I never have the puck. If the goalie’s saving them in practice, I don’t care because I know if I hit the same spot in a game, the goalie’s going to be worried about too many other things to even see it. I know where it’s going-I shoot to an area. So, how is it that he is such a prodigious scorer? Modest and unassuming despite a contract that will pay him $7.1 million over four seasons, the blond, blue-eyed Hull still describes himself as “lazy” and “chubby.”
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