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Brett Hull was among an elite list Monday night that was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.
He was only a Calgary Flame for a very short period of time, but a Flame nonetheless.
The Belleville, Ontario native, and the son of the Golden Jet, Bobby Hull, was drafted in the sixth round, 117th overall in the 1984 draft.
Yes, the likes of Peter Rosol (75th) and Joel Paunio (96th), were drafted in earlier rounds by then General Manager, Cliff Fletcher.
Hull would begin his NHL Career in the 1986 Stanley Cup Playoffs with the Flames, playing a pair of games in the Stanley Cup Final against the Montreal Canadiens. In fact, his first game came at the Montreal Forum in Game 3 of the Finals-- a 5-3 Montreal win.
Hull would go on to lead the Moncton Golden Flames in scoring the following year, recording 92 points in 67 games. He would go on to record 1 goal in 5 regular season games in 1986-87 for the Calgary Flames, and then add two more goals and an assist in the playoffs.
Hull would then make the Flames' parent club full time in 1987-88, recording 50 points in 52 games, before being traded to the St. Louis Blues with Steve Bozek for Rob Ramage and Rick Wamsley on March 7, 1988.
It would be considered, by many, including me, one of the most lopsided trades in Flames' history.
However in the recent best-selling book, "Playing With Fire", by Theoren Fleury, the former Flames' great writes, "Rob Ramage and Rick Wamsley turned out to be two amazing guys with a tremendous amount of leadership, so they fit into the puzzle. Did the Flames make a mistake? No, because they won a Stanley Cup thanks to the trade."
Hull would go on to become one of the most prolific scorers in NHL history. The Oates to Hull combination in St. Louis was extremely dynamic. Hull would go on to score 228 goals in a three year stretch from 1990-92. His 741 goals throughout his career with Calgary, St. Louis, Dallas, Detroit and Phoenix, ranks third all-time behind Wayne Gretzky and Gordie Howe.
Hull was inducted yesterday as a Blue, but it is important to remind all hockey readers, he started as a Flame.
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