Wax Stain Wednesday is a regular feature on Dirty Dangle. Our pal Dave at
Wax Stain Rookie is an avid autograph and card collector and has some amazing experiences to share with us. WARNING: these posts may make you want to buy a Beckett and get those dusty hockey cards out from under your bed that you hide from your girlfriend like a secret porn collection.
This week’s post is about two autographs I recently received in the mail from arguably one of the best players to ever play the left wing,
Bobby Hull. In his professional hockey career which includes time in both the NHL and WHA and spanned 4 decades, Bobby played in over 1400 regular season games and scored 913 professional hockey (regular season) goals. Even though, 303 of those goals were in the WHA (where the talent was a little below the NHL standard), his 610 career NHL goals were good enough for third in NHL history at the time of his retirement. Thanks to high scoring hockey in the 80’s and many talented NHL players coming into the league over the last 30 years, Bobby Hull has
fallen to 16th on the NHL all-time goals list. Making all things equal, Bobby Hull does rank 9th and 3rd in career goals per game in the NHL and WHA respectively.