W. Hull League Quotations

To play in the National Hockey League as a red blooded American kid... a Canadian kid, we all dreamed about it and I made a boyhood dream come true.

Half the goalies in the league can't handle the puck anyway, so it will do their team a service to keep those guys in there.

Sometimes I think the league is just stifling itself, and I want people just to think and wonder... I talk all the time about how when I retire I want to be a part of the game.

It was so difficult to play that first year in the 1999 playoffs. Being known as the missing piece... to have that pressure on you, when all the people around the league always said you are never going to win with Brett Hull, and to have that pressure on you-it's unfathomable the pressure I felt.

It's the same reason I've been known to be hard on players. But it's only because I want them to be better and be the best they can be. At times, I just don't think they try to do that, and it's the same with the league. Sometimes I don't think the league is trying to make itself better.