Editing Bobby Hull (section)

===NHL career===
[[File:Hastings County Archives HC01957A (38140064474).jpg|thumb|upright|Hull with the Black Hawks in 1968]]
Hull had a solid debut year, finishing second in voting for the [[Calder Memorial Trophy]]. Hull originally wore numbers 16 and 7 as a Black Hawk but later switched to his famous number 9, a tribute to his childhood idol [[Gordie Howe]]. By his third season (1959–60), he led the league in goal- and point-scoring (the [[Art Ross Trophy]]), a double feat which he also achieved in 1961–62 and 1965–66. He led Chicago to the [[1961 Stanley Cup Finals|Stanley Cup in 1961]]—their third overall and first in 23 years. He finished second in point-scoring three further times.

On March 12, 1966, Hull became the first NHL player to score more than 50 goals in a season, surpassing [[Maurice Richard]]'s, [[Bernie Geoffrion]]'s, and his own mark of 50 goals. His 51st goal, scored on [[Cesare Maniago]] of the [[New York Rangers]], earned him a seven-minute standing ovation from the [[Chicago Stadium]] faithful. Hull eventually scored 54 goals that season, the highest single-season total of the [[Original Six]] era. That same year, Hull set the record for the most points in a season with 97, one more than the previous record set by [[Dickie Moore (ice hockey)|Dickie Moore]] 7 years earlier. His point total was tied the next year by teammate [[Stan Mikita]] and their record was broken three years later by [[Phil Esposito]]. Hull led the league in goal-scoring seven times during the 1960s. In [[1968–69 NHL season|1968–69]], despite Hull breaking his own goals in a season record by four goals (netting 58) and setting a career NHL high of 107 points (second in the league that year), the Hawks missed the playoffs for the first time since his rookie season. By his final [[1971–72 NHL season|NHL season]], he had scored 50 goals or more a remarkable five times. This was only one time less than all other players in NHL history combined up until that point in time.

In his 15 full NHL seasons he was voted the First-Team All-Star left winger ten times and the Second-Team All-Star left winger twice. His slapshot was once clocked at 118.3&nbsp;mph (190.5&nbsp;km/h) and he could skate 29.7&nbsp;mph (47.8&nbsp;km/h).<ref name='Hawk on the Wing'>{{cite magazine | title=Hawk on the Wing | date=March 1, 1968 | url =https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,941234,00.html | magazine =[[Time (magazine)|Time]] | access-date = January 25, 2021}}</ref> During his drive to be the first to eclipse the 50 goal mark, Hull's [[wrist shot]] was said to be harder than his [[slapshot]].<ref>{{cite magazine|author=William Leggett |url=https://www.si.com/vault/1965/01/25/606983/go-bobby-goto-beat-the-magic-50 |title=In the boldest attack yet on hockey's seemingly impassable barrier, Bobby Hull has sent his lightning-fast slap and wrist shots into the net 36 times to put him and Chicago on the road to a championship |magazine=[[Sports Illustrated]] |date=January 25, 1965 |access-date=April 17, 2024 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161114004138/https://www.si.com/vault/1965/01/25/606983/go-bobby-goto-beat-the-magic-50 |archivedate=November 14, 2016}}</ref>

===="Bobby Hull Rule"====
Hull and teammate [[Stan Mikita]] were catalysts for a 1960s craze where players curved the blades of their hockey sticks, which became widely referred to as "banana blades".<ref name=YahooAugust2010>{{cite news|last=Wyshynski|first=Greg|title=The 10 best player-inspired NHL rules changes|url=https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/10-best-player-inspired-nhl-rules-changes--nhl.html|work=Yahoo! Sports|date=August 19, 2010}}</ref> Hull is the player typically linked most to the rule that banned this practice because of the potential danger to goalies, few of whom wore masks in that era.<ref name=YahooAugust2010/> The curved blade made the puck's trajectory unpredictable. The rule originally limited the blade curvature to between {{cvt|0.5|in|mm}} and {{cvt|0.75|in|mm}}; in 1970, it was set at {{cvt|0.5|in|mm}}.<ref name=YahooAugust2010/> NHL Rule 10.1 currently limits the curvature to {{cvt|0.75|in|mm}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nhl.com/nhl/en/v3/ext/rules/2018-2019-NHL-rulebook.pdf|title=Official rules 2018–2019|publisher=National Hockey League}}</ref>