Hockey Corridor of Famer Bobby Hull, a 12-time All-Star and two-time Hart Trophy winner, has died, the Chicago Blackhawks introduced Monday. He was 84.

“We ship our deepest sympathies to the Hull household,” the workforce stated in a press release. “The Hull household has requested privateness throughout this troublesome time. They admire the sympathies which were despatched their means.”

Hull, recognized throughout his enjoying profession because the Golden Jet due to his blond hair and his pace on the ice, turned beloved in Chicago for teaming with Stan Mikita to assist the Blackhawks win the Stanley Cup in 1961, ending a 23-year title drought.

Following Mikita’s lead, Hull turned recognized for curving the blade of his picket stick within the Sixties and had one of the crucial feared slap pictures within the league. His slap shot was reportedly clocked at 118 mph.

He performed 15 seasons in Chicago and is the franchise’s profession chief in targets scored with 604. For eight of these seasons, he performed alongside his brother Dennis, who scored 298 targets with the Blackhawks. Bobby Hull gained back-to-back Hart Memorial Trophies because the league’s most respected participant in 1964-65 and 1965-66, when he gained the NHL scoring title for the third time in his profession.

NHL commissioner Gary Bettman in a press release known as Hull “a real famous person with a gregarious character.”

“When Bobby Hull wound as much as take a slapshot, followers all through the NHL rose to their toes in anticipation and opposing goaltenders braced themselves,” Bettman stated. “Throughout his prime, there was no extra prolific goal-scorer in all of hockey. … We ship our deepest condolences to his son, fellow Hockey Corridor of Famer Brett; all the Hull household; and the numerous followers across the hockey world who have been lucky sufficient to see him play or have since marveled at his exploits.”

In 1972, Hull signed the primary $1 million contract within the historical past {of professional} hockey (10 years, $1.75 million), leaving the Blackhawks and the NHL to hitch the Winnipeg Jets of the WHA as a participant/coach.

He performed seven seasons within the WHA and helped the Jets win Avco Cups in 1976 and 1978. He gained two Gordie Howe Trophies because the league’s most respected participant in 1972-73 and 1974-75, a season during which he scored a career-best 77 targets.

He introduced his retirement in the course of the 1978-79 season however determined to return the following season after the WHA merged with the NHL. He performed 18 video games with the Jets in 1979-80 and was traded to the Hartford Whalers, enjoying 9 video games for the workforce earlier than retiring once more.

Hull was inducted into the Hockey Corridor of Fame in 1983. His son Brett is also within the Corridor of Fame, inducted in 2009 after a 19-season profession during which he scored 741 targets. Bobby and Brett Hull are the one father and son to every win the Hart Trophy. In addition they have been the one father and son named among the many 100 Biggest NHL Gamers in 2017.

In a press release launched by the St. Louis Blues, for whom he works as an envoy, Brett Hull stated his father gave his household and others “an incredible quantity of nice recollections.”

“These of us who have been fortunate sufficient to spend time with him will cherish these eternally,” Brett Hull stated. “He will likely be tremendously missed.”

Bobby Hull completed within the high three in targets scored in 10 NHL seasons, in line with ESPN Stats & Data analysis. Solely Gordie Howe (12) and Alex Ovechkin (11) have extra such cases.

Hull’s No. 9 is retired by the Blackhawks and the Jets. That Winnipeg franchise relocated to Arizona in 1996 and was renamed the Coyotes, who additionally retired Hull’s No. 9. The Coyotes unretired the quantity in 2005 so Brett Hull might honor his father by carrying it.

Bobby Hull had 610 targets and 560 assists in 1,063 regular-season NHL video games. Along with his two Hart Trophies, he was a three-time winner of the Artwork Ross Trophy awarded to the league chief in factors and took house the 1965 Woman Byng Memorial Trophy for sportsmanship mixed with stellar play.

Though Hull starred on the ice, he confronted authorized and household points in his private life.

He confronted allegations of home abuse from two of his three wives. His second spouse, determine skater Joanne McKay, alleged that in 1966 he held her over a balcony in Hawaii and hit her with a shoe and in 1978 threatened her with a loaded shotgun. His third spouse, Deborah, filed expenses after an incident in 1984 however later dropped them. Hull, nevertheless, later pleaded responsible to taking a swing at an officer throughout his arrest and was fined $150 and positioned on six months of courtroom supervision.

In 1998, Hull got here underneath hearth for telling The Moscow Times that the Black inhabitants in the USA was rising too quick and that “Hitler had some good concepts” however “simply went a bit too far.”

The Blackhawks introduced final yr that Hull would now not function a workforce ambassador. The workforce stated it was redefining the position of workforce ambassador after Mikita died in 2018 and Tony Esposito died in 2021.

The Related Press contributed to this report.