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Brett Hull Hits 500
by Michael Dell, editor-in-chief

Hey, Mike Keenan? Now what's up? Perhaps in a good-bye gesture to the former St. Louis Blues coach, Brett Hull recorded three goals in a 7-4 win over the Los Angeles Kings on Sunday night, December 22, to become the 24th player in NHL history to reach the magical 500-goal milestone. The hat trick was the 26th of Hull's career and gives him 15 goals on the season.

It was originally thought that Hull notched number 500 twenty seconds into the third period, only to have the goal taken away about five minutes later when video replays showed the shot had actually been deflected off Stephane Matteau's leg. Not wanting to let the special night slip away, Hull went back to work and rifled a shot past Stephane Fiset at the 10:25 mark to secure his legendary status for a second time.

LCS planned to have a real nice retrospective on Hull's career when he reached 500, but there just wasted enough time before the deadline to get something done. So we'll run it next issue.

This is just too big of a story to do a rush job on, and we felt we should at least include some sort of feature on it this time. Seeing how this is hardly large enough to call a feature, in order to take up more space I will now hum.

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Thank you.


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