A sports team very much becomes a player's family.īrett Hull from the NHL at the end of the 2005-2006 season. The times spent together throughs wins and losses, the emotions of it all. Louis Blues in 2006.When a professional athlete retires, the camaraderie among teammates is what s/he often misses more than any other aspect of the lifestyle. His jersey number 16 was retired by the St. Hull's nickname, ' the Golden Brett' is a reference to his father's nickname of 'the Golden Jet'. They are the first father-son combination to each score either of 600 goals or 1,000 career points in the NHL. Hull was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2009, joining his father Bobby Hull. He 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. Having dual citizenship in Canada and the United States, Hull was eligible to play for either Canada or the United States internationally and chose to join the American National Team. He was named a first team all-star on three occasions and played in eight NHL All-Star Games. Pearson Award that year as the league's most valuable player.

Hull won the Hart Memorial Trophy and Lester B. His 86 goals in 1990–91 is the third-highest single-season total in NHL history, with the first two being the same person, Wayne Gretzky.

He scored 50 the following year with the Moncton Golden Flames of the American Hockey League (AHL) and had five consecutive NHL seasons of at least 50 goals. He played college hockey for the University of Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs, where he scored 52 goals in 1985–86.

Known as one of the game's greatest snipers, Hull was an elite scorer at all levels of the game.

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