In my estimation, he goes too far with the negatives. I understood that this was going to be a critical analysis of Hull, and that it was going to deal with some of his off-ice issues. Right up front he makes the comment that there are only people of a certain age that will remember Bobby Hull, so the audience is limited for a book about him. I finished the book wondering what the author was trying to achieve. A candid look at one of hockey's most gifted and controversial figures, The Devil and Bobby Hull tells the story of his extraordinary career and life-and why this remarkable man has not faded into oblivion. And the book details how Hull's battle with the owners of the Chicago Blackhawks-challenging the reserve clause in his contract, a move that enabled him to move to the WHA-helped other players follow him. Not only are Hull's remarkable on-ice achievements finally put in perspective, so, too, are his achievements off the rink-including endorsements for a wide array of products (rare for an NHL player) and his appearance on the cover of Sports Illustrated a record four times. In The Devil and Bobby Hull, this once great hockey player and pioneer is finally given his due. ![]() With his publicized marital troubles and his defection from the NHL to the WHA, Hull's star began to fall, leaving him broke and in exile from the game. ![]() With his body-builder torso, and his 100 mph volleys across a rink, the world of hockey glory was his to lose. An award-winning writer sets the record straight on hockey's forgotten golden boy-Bobby Hull In his prime, few could dispute Bobby Hull's athletic brilliance-the first to have five 50-goal seasons, the highest scorer on the 1976 Canada Cup team, the first to use the slapshot as a scoring weapon, and the first hockey player to sign a million-dollar contract.
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