But it's a long way from the pond, river, rink or even the Winnipeg Arena to the NHL, even if those kids are the sons of NHL players like Wilson and Hull, who both made it against long odds. Louis and scored and scored and scored."Ī lot of kids dream of playing in the NHL. I said 'Hey, he is scoring the goals, you know that is why we play the game.' He went on to St. "Here's a kid, you know, he gets called up to the team, he scores two goals, the next day he gets sent down. "I was in Calgary when he started his (NHL) career and he was back and forth in the minor," Wilson said.
The boyhood friends became teammates in Calgary in 1986-87, and Wilson said the same pattern emerged when Hull joined the Flames. Everybody second-guessed him and every level he went to, he just scored goals."
Obviously that came to fruition later on in his life. "He was just a fun, easy-going kid with an incredible amount of gifted talent. "Brett was far more laid back and I knew him extremely well," Wilson said of his boyhood pal. Wilson hit the ice after practices, playing with the Hull kids, and he remembers Brett as a good kid who was pretty easy going. Hull's dad, of course, is Bobby Hull, who joined Winnipeg after leaving the Chicago Blackhawks in 1972. To one-time Calgary Flames teammate Carey Wilson, however, Brett Hull was just one of the kids that skated with him after the WHA Winnipeg Jets practiced at the Winnipeg Arena in the 1970s.
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