Bobby Hull, the electrifying Blackhawks left wing who brought the Stanley Cup to Chicago in 1961 and was a former team ambassador, died, the NHL Alumni Association announced Monday. He was 84.
Hull became the first NHL player to score more than 50 goals in a season in 1966. He was a bellwether at Chicago Stadium for 15 years — leading the league in scoring for six of them —- along with “Million Dollar Line” members Murray Balfour and Bill Hay.
“Some people say they don’t hear the fans when they play. But they’re full of crap,” Hull told The Tribune in 1988. “Every time I picked up that puck behind the net I could hear them and feel the electricity. The faster I went, the further up ice I skated, the louder it got and the more exciting it was.”Hull left the Blackhawks in 1972 to join the World Hockey Association’s Winnipeg Jets as a player/coach.
“I couldn’t be any happier. I can live the rest of my life knowing the Blackhawks wanted me back and I wanted to be back,” Hull said after becoming a team ambassador. “I never thought I would wear any jersey but crimson. I thought I’d live and I’d die as a Chicago Blackhawk and that’s what I wanted to do.”
Bobby Hull holds the Blackhawks single-season record for goals scored with 58 in 1968-69. He was the last Hawk to lead the NHL in goals scored. Hull scored 50 or more goals five times with the Hawks and had three other seasons with 40-plus goals. Though mostly in the news for his achievements on the ice, Hull was charged with assault and battery of his wife, Deborah, at his Willowbrook home in 1986. Twelve years later,
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