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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Yeah I'm not sure why people keep bringing that up as a Stanley Cup > Brett Hull. You think the Kings would trade back one of their Stanley Cups to get rid of some of those bad contacts they have today? Of course not.
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Also, at the time, Hull was lazy as someone else mentioned, and he was out of shape.
Hull alluded to that himself later on...not sure if when he was with the Blues or with the Stars. But even Scotty Bowman said he became a complete two way player by the time he joined the Wings. There was obviously mutual admiration between the two of them.
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Of playing for the 2002 Detroit Red Wings' Stanley Cup champions, Hull said: "I was lucky enough to feel what it was like to play for the old New York Yankees. I got to play with Babe Ruth and be coached by Casey Stengel. Scotty Bowman was one of the greatest coaches that ever walked the face of the earth."
"We knew he wanted to play on a winning team," Bowman said about signing Hull as a free agent that season. "We had a lot of great individual players and he fit in perfectly. He became a very good two-way player. We used him to kill penalties. We had a strong lineup and he was particularly strong in the playoffs.
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