However, it wouldn’t be long before he was putting up 50 goals - and more - in the NHL. Hull did have 50 goals the following season, but it was with Calgary’s AHL affiliate. I mean, you think you’re going to snap 50 in the NHL?'”Īnd Sheeny was right. “I said, ‘You know Brett, you’re living with me and you can say whatever you want with me, but when you’re around the other guys, you might want to tone that down a little bit. “Now he’s a kid right out of college and he says, ‘Yeah, I’ll go snap 50 in this league,'” Sheehy remembers. Still, the confidence he had coming into the league was staggering, and one day he said something that made Sheehy gasp. Hull was coming off a season for University of Minnesota-Duluth in which he scored 52 goals in 42 games, and was two seasons removed from a 105-goal 56-game junior season.

Hull took him up on the offer, so Sheehy got a good opportunity to witness the young right winger’s earliest NHL impressions. “Why don’t you come to my house and live with me for the rest of the year?” Sheehy asked him. He figured he’d offer him something a bit more comfortable. He knew that Hull, like a lot of prospects, had been put up in a local hotel during his postseason stay. The video had 34,000 views at the time of this writing. Is it too soon to declare it St.Neil Sheehy, now an NHL agent, was a 25-year-old defenseman for those Flames. Now, thanks to KMOX producer Kole Dugger, we have this treasure, a mashup of the original Laura Branigan disco tune and Hull's rendition. When he started an impromptu sing-along of the Blues' victory song, 'Gloria,' at the rally on Saturday while wearing a Ric Flair Drip tee, everyone pretty much chalked it up to 'Brett Hull is gonna Brett Hull.'īut one man went further. Louis Blues on the ice, or kissing a furry animal, or starting a chant of 'We went Blues' instead of 'Let's go, Blues' at the hockey team's championship rally ( maybe logical but not quite grammatically correct), the Hall of Famer has been having a grand time watching his former team go from last in the league to Stanley Cup champions. By now, SLM readers should know that for the past couple of weeks, through the Stanley Cup Final and ensuing celebration, Brett Hull has been living his best life.

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