BREAKING NEWS: Blackhawks all-time leading goal scorer Bobby Hull dies at 84
Hull, who was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1983, played 17 seasons in the NHL, including 15 with the Blackhawks. He also played for seven seasons in the WHA, a professional hockey league that operated in North America from 1972 to 1979.
Nicknamed"The Golden Jet" was the first player to score more than 50 goals in a season in 1966, when he finished with 54 goals. He accomplished the feat three times in the NHL, in 1966, 1967, and 1969. He also scored more than 50 goals four times in the WHA, in four consecutive seasons from 1973 to 1976. He also holds the WHA record for goals in a single season, with 77 in 1975.
Hull ranks first in career goals for the Blackhawks, with 604, and third in career points with 1,153. He won three Art Ross Trophies as the NHL's leading goal scorer, two Hart Memorial Trophies as the NHL's most valuable player, and the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy for sportsmanship in 1965.He was named a Blackhawks ambassador in a ceremony with fellow Hall of Famer Stan Mikita in 2008.
Last February, he retired as a team ambassador. At the time, the team said they were redefining that role after Mikita died in 2018 and Hall of Famer Tony Esposito died in 2021.Hull was convicted of assaulting a police officer who intervened in a dispute with then-wife Deborah in 1986. He also was accused of battery, but that charge was dropped after Deborah told authorities she didn't want to testify against her husband, a state attorney told the Chicago Tribune.
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