Height: 5-9
Weight: 165
Shoot: R
Born: 11 Jan 1952, Malartic PQ
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Regular Season & Playoff Scoring Record (key)
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Crowds Flock to Hull (excerpt) • by Vic Grant • The Hockey Spectator • November 24, 1972 ...The Jets should have won that first Hull game against Quebec Nordiques because they were supposed to. Hockey's greatest player was playing, here was the ultimate, the thing the Jets had been waiting for ever so patiently. Instead, though, the Nordiques stole all the thunder and Hull was a losing coach and a losing player in his first legal WHA game. ...That's why 10,126 rabid citizens filled Le Colisee and, when you took into consideration the players and the spectators, the only person who wasn't impressed was Yves Bergeron, an obscure youngster on the threshold of establishing a hockey reputation... Bergeron, the young Nordique, spent the night humming musical bars to the tune of Me and My Shadow. Bergeron was the Shadow and Hull was the Me. If Hull thought he left that shadow coverage in the other league, Bergeron let it be known he was wrong. Where Hull was, Bergeron was. If the rules permitted it, he likely would have sat on the Jet bench next to Hull. Bergeron's coverage took the shine off a debut, but you can't argue with the results. The Nordiques did win the hockey game. "My first game, I come out and here I find a guy is following me all over the ice," said Hull, who admitted he was startled to see the shadow method being employed in his opening game... |
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