Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...score so often (an average of two goals every three games), Bobby Hull would still be fearsome. There is not one ounce of excess baggage on his 5-ft. 10-in., 195-lb. frame; physiologists have called him "the perfect mesomorph." He is the fastest skater in the N.H.L. (28.3 m.p.h. with the puck, 29.7 m.p.h. without), and by far the fastest shot: his "slap shot," delivered from a full windup, has been clocked at 118.3 m.p.h., nearly 35 m.p.h. above the league average, and his "wrist shot," fired with just a flick of the stick, zings along...
...second period at Oakland last week, Bobby drew an awed gasp from the crowd with a blast that hit a defender's stick-and ricocheted all the way up to the 34th row of the stands. Not every opponent who crosses the path of a Hull missile gets off so lightly. Montreal Goalie Lome ("Gump") Worsley caught one in the face three years ago, firmly believes that the only reason he was not killed was that he was hit by the flat side rather than the edge of the puck. Last October, Minnesota Goal Tender Cesare Maniago was knocked...
...does Hull. His front teeth sit out the game on a locker-room shelf, and his once handsome profile looks as if it had been rearranged in a demolition derby. His nose has been broken twice, and at last count 200 stitches have been taken to close all the various cuts and slices in his face...
...pool table. The Los Angeles Kings are drawing 7,600 paving customers per game, and the only expansion club that is experiencing any real financial woe is the Oakland Seals. The Seals discovered the cure for that last week, when those 12,025 fans turned out to welcome Bobby Hull to town. "I wish," sighed General Manager Frank Selke Jr., "that we had him all the time...
Paying the Debt. So does everybody else. Black Hawks President William Wirtz calls Hull "the best public relations man the N.H.L. ever had." He should be; he works hard enough at it. "Every professional athlete," he says, "owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installment every time he plays. He should never miss a payment." Hull rarely does-whether it means visiting a Chicago hospital to say hello to ailing Black Hawks fans or hanging around the arena until the last autograph is signed. Last month in Toronto, he shook hands and signed autographs...