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		After playing only 5 games with Wayne Gretzky as his coach, Brett Hull retires. (sports.yahoo.com)		109
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Rat		2005-10-16 12:17:17 AM

Ok, hockey, right?

© I'm right, right?

mr Saturn		2005-10-16 12:17:29 AM

He was a baby anyway

Donald_McRonald		2005-10-16 12:17:49 AM

He's as bored of hockey as everyone else.

Timon of Athens		2005-10-16 12:17:54 AM

Red Wings suck

smartypants		2005-10-16 12:20:03 AM

Maybe now he can use his spare time keeping his dad from saying stupid shiat.

y2j		2005-10-16 12:20:51 AM

Redwings are going to win the cup this year.

LMN8R		2005-10-16 12:20:59 AM

Good thing Hull went to Phoenix with Gretzky before he retired....it would suck if the Wings loost him him mid-season like that.

WINGS 5-1!! Gooooo legace, datsyuk, zetterberg, etc.

Keith Moon		2005-10-16 12:21:04 AM

"Jesus saves! But Grtetzky scores on the rebound! Oilers win!"

Deacon Blues		2005-10-16 12:21:17 AM

Good farking riddance, Hull *spits*.

Nailz		2005-10-16 12:21:28 AM

His foot was in the crease!

TheOther		2005-10-16 12:21:28 AM

Gretzky is kind of a dick.

Thanks, Brett.

Stars win the Cup!!

smartypants		2005-10-16 12:21:46 AM

On second thought, he's striken from foot-in-mouth disease himself.

Spooner St.		2005-10-16 12:22:08 AM

he will be sorely missed

smartypants		2005-10-16 12:23:01 AM

Meanwhile, I can't spell.

/retires

LetsGoVandy		2005-10-16 12:23:26 AM

Nailz: His foot was in the crease!
NO GOAL

ryant123		2005-10-16 12:25:34 AM

Yeah he just can't stand with his stick in the air waiting for the one-timer like he used to.

/cry me a river

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener		2005-10-16 12:25:40 AM

Brett must've watched an episode of ProStars, then.

/Bo knows retirement

Roger Arseways		2005-10-16 12:26:46 AM

NO GOAL

Keith Moon		2005-10-16 12:26:49 AM

smartypants-
You're not alone- I misspelled Gretzky's name...

cameroncrazy1984		2005-10-16 12:27:20 AM

thanks for opening THAT wound, TheOthers.

/sabres are 3-2-0 this year

Sweater Girl		2005-10-16 12:27:52 AM

He's a whiner but he's a great player.

prolog		2005-10-16 12:29:08 AM

Well, yeah. One assist in five games? For a guy that's supposed to produce offense? Ouch.

Roger Arseways		2005-10-16 12:29:09 AM

skinink		2005-10-16 12:30:11 AM

Go Hartford Whalers !!!

Why Arizona has a hockey team instead of Conneticut anyways is silly. Like having a bobsled team ... for Jamaica ?

assmasacre		2005-10-16 12:31:08 AM

GO WINGS!!!!!!

Headache21		2005-10-16 12:34:10 AM

I find this to be shocking news. I thought he retired years ago.

Roy Allen		2005-10-16 12:34:38 AM

I was hoping a kind hearted individual with a shotgun would come out onto the ice in Ottawa tonight and put the Bruins out of their misery. That was just ugly.

/injuries notwithstanding

1d10t		2005-10-16 12:35:43 AM

control of the puck while in the crease = GOAL

Mr.Tangent		2005-10-16 12:39:38 AM

As grapes would say, a fine ex-Canadian.

btw, It was a goal. ;)

Gosling		2005-10-16 12:39:49 AM

Why do you hate Canada, Brett?

(Seriously. Gretzky's a god up there. I only spent part of one day in Canada during my entire life so far and you wouldn't believe how many things I saw named after him.)

Unsilent Majority		2005-10-16 12:40:53 AM

Brett- I knew Bobby Hull, I worked with Bobby Hull, and you my friend are no Bobby Hull.

/bring back Dino and Al Iafrate
//Run outta town for cavorting with neferious teenage girls

CronoX		2005-10-16 12:44:50 AM

That wasn't a goal. According to the rules at the time, since he was in the crease before he had possession of the puck the goal should be called back. The only reason it wasn't called back was because the rule was going to be abolished for the next season and the entire Stars bench was on the ice. Stupid pansy refs...

/wanted Buffalo to win
//Wings fan but I never liked Hull

Timon of Athens		2005-10-16 12:45:52 AM

he was in the crease before he touched the puck

NO GOAL

/Arizona has a team now?
//ewwwwwwwwwww

sigdiamond2000		2005-10-16 12:45:56 AM

The best interview in hockey. I'll miss the guy.

Silvorgold		2005-10-16 12:48:37 AM

Bobby must be going mental over this now, with the whole un-retiring the whole #9 jets/coyotes jersey number and a few weeks later brett retiring

HomeyD		2005-10-16 12:48:53 AM

Brett, for the love of His Holy Noodleness, Do NOT do what Jordan did, and just stay the fark out of sports. Also:
Do not teach others how to cherry pick
Do not hold seminars on how to complain to refs
Do not work with soccer players to improve your acting hurt skills
Do not pass go
Do not collect 200$

Roger Arseways		2005-10-16 12:48:55 AM

It took the officials less than 30 seconds to get the Cup on to the ice that night. They didn't even review it. According to one of our reporters, there would have been a riot had they played the goal on the video board. They were showing it at the locker room level, Lindy Ruff saw it and started yelling at the referees in the hallway.

Awful call.

DirtyHarry		2005-10-16 12:49:55 AM

Heres to you dood.

/salut.

Unsilent Majority		2005-10-16 12:50:16 AM

CronoX you're absolutely correct on that assertion

CanadianCommie		2005-10-16 12:52:50 AM

farking Hull. Soils his father's good name

"oh look at me! Canadian Juniour Team didn't want me, so I'll go play for the American team!"

he doesn't have my sympathy. none at all!

/still a good player, despite my hatred

unknown host		2005-10-16 12:53:20 AM

Punk? Not harsh enough.

Chump? Still no good.

Jerk? Not quite.

Grade A obnoixious, over rated, symptom of everything that's wrong with hockey, has-been / never was, slacker that made a career out of a good last name and being surrounded by talented young players while constantly flapping his yap?

Yeah, that works. I guess playing hockey sucks when you don't have Datsuyk, Zetterberg, or some other 20 something player that actually skates hard once in a while feeding you, eh Brett?

I was so happy the day he left Detroit, just so I could start hating him again.

/No goal.

monkeynuts		2005-10-16 12:53:50 AM

I guess he's not a fan of the between periods sodomy Gretzky is so fond of.

sigdiamond2000		2005-10-16 12:56:21 AM

unknown host:

Grade A obnoixious, over rated, symptom of everything that's wrong with hockey, has-been / never was, slacker that made a career out of a good last name and being surrounded by talented young players while constantly flapping his yap?

Number of career goals: 741

STFU

ornithopter		2005-10-16 12:56:26 AM

skinink, hockey is about the only sport I really find entertaining to watch. And I lived in CT until last week. I was so sad when the Whalers left!

/go Hartford Whalers!

Tolshak		2005-10-16 01:02:28 AM

NO GOAL

Sweater Girl		2005-10-16 01:11:31 AM

Thoughts about whether or not it was a legit goal.

Doesn't pop and about.com sucks with that creepy dropping taskbar.

confessor		2005-10-16 01:13:44 AM

Brett Hull drinks Sprite?

fluxrad		2005-10-16 01:17:12 AM

Any questions?

(I'm not saying the rule wasn't stupid. I'm just saying, the rule's the rule).

Flaming Monkey		2005-10-16 01:20:46 AM

Never minded Hully making things interesting, on the ice and off...

Had a buddy who caddied a bunch for a couple New York Rangers circa Gretzky's arrival on their team, and apparently all were rippin pissed to have to play with him (was an a-hole way past his prime, but mostly an a-hole).

You know Hull couldn't have been that bad a guy when four Wings (Yzerman, Lidstrom, Chelios, Shanahan) took pay cuts to make room for him... Just sayin...

/GO WINGS!!!
//Avs suckage > Duke Squared...
///sorry...