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

He played his minor hockey in Belleville and then
junior hockey for the St. Catherines' Black Hawks
in the Ontario Hockey Association.

==NHL Career==
Nicknamed, "The Golden Jet", Bobby Hull led the
Chicago Blackhawks to the Stanley Cup, in 1960-61
NHL season|1961 - their third ever and first in
almost 30 years. Although he originally wore
number 16 then wore number 7 when the Hawks won
the cup, he later switched to number 9, considered
the prestige number in hockey.  Bobby Hull was
famous for the speed and accuracy of his 120 mph
slapshot, that many others would soon try to
imitate.

Although only about 5'10 in stature, Bobby has a
solid body build and had a playing weight of about
185 pounds.  He played a hard, fast, skilled game
matched by few others in the history of the sport.

In 1965-66 NHL season|1966, he became the first
National Hockey League|NHL player to score more
than 50 goals in one season, earning a 7-minute
standing ovation for his 51st goal. He played 23
professional seasons in hockey from 1957 to 1980,
scoring 672 goals. 

===NHL awards===
* Won the Art Ross Memorial Trophy as the NHL's
scoring champion three times; (1960, 1962, 1966)
* Twice voted the Hart Memorial Trophy|Hart Trophy
as the league's most valuable player; (1965, 1966)
* Ten times he was named to the NHL's First
All-Star team. (1960, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1966,
1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972)
* Twice named to the NHL's Second All-Star Team;
(1963, 1971) 
* Lady Byng Memorial Trophy (1965) 
* Lester Patrick Trophy (1969)
* Inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1983.

==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.

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
5 games to 3. He was a key member of the Canadian
squad that won the 1976 Canada Cup.

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

In 1998 in sports|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.

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.")

==See also==
* Retired NHL Players
* List of members of the Hockey Hall of Fame
* Hockey Hall of Fame
* List of NHL statistical leaders
* List of NHL seasons
* Brett Hull
* Maurice Richard

==References==
*
http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00014266
.html Career Overview and  Biography - by ESPN
*
http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php3?p
id%5B%5D=2409