Goaltender Ben Duffy has a card, even though he only played one game in ’84-85. From what I can tell, every player from the ’85-86 UMD team are included, with the exception of Wayne Smith, who played 11 games that season. Thirty-two player cards are in this set, plus four cards of coaches, mascots and cheerleaders. Brett was a top player in his two seasons with UMD, and is the main reason why this set – despite being 25 years old – is not too difficult to find. The WCHA Champions the prior year, the team had another reason for being a popular draw – their captain was Brett Hull, son of the legendary Bobby Hull. Louis arena, the Scottrade Center, was renamed “Brett Hull Way.” Hull was inducted into the US Hockey Hall of Fame in 2008, with he and his father making up the first father-son duo in the Hall.During the 1985-86 season, a company called Tim & Larry’s Sports Cards in Duluth, MN released a 36 card set of the University of Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs hockey team. Hull’s #29 was retired at the University of Minnesota Duluth, and his #16 jersey was retired by the St. After his playing career ended, he moved into the front office, and became an Executive Vice-President with the Dallas Stars. During his career he scored 741 goals, 650 assists, and 1,391 points, with his career goal total ranking him third in hockey history after Gretzky and Gordie Howe.
His second-best season of 72 goals in 1989-90 ranks ninth all-time in the NHL. He led the league in scoring in 1990, 1991, and 1992, with a high of 86 goals in 1990-91, which is third all-time in the NHL behind two seasons by Wayne Gretzky. In 1990, Hull won the Lady Byng Trophy for the most sportsmanlike player in the league, and in 1991, he won both the Hart Memorial Trophy as most valuable player, and the Lester Pearson Award as most outstanding player. He was a three-time first-team NHL All-Star, in 1989-90, 1990-91, and 1991-92, and played in eight NHL All-Star Games. In international competition, Hull played in two Olympics and the 19 World Cups. Hull played Junior A hockey with the Penticton Knights of the British Columbia Junior Hockey League, and then played two seasons of college hockey at the University of Minnesota at Duluth. With the Stars and Red Wings, he won Stanley Cups in 19, respectively. Louis Blues, finishing his career with a few years with the Dallas Stars and Detroit Red Wings, and a few brief games in his final season with the Phoenix Coyotes. In a 19-year NHL career, 1986-2006, Brett Hull, a right winger, broke in with the Calgary Flames but played 11 years with the St. Although Bobby Hull was Canadian, Brett’s mother was American and he has always played for the US in international competition. Brett Hull was to the hockey manor born, as the son of Bobby Hull, “The Golden Jet,” a Chicago Black Hawk who is considered one of the greatest NHL players ever, but he would shine on his own.
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