Brett Hull inherited two things from his father--a famous hockey name and an awesome slap shot. Hull, the record-setting right winger for the St. Louis Blues, is the son of Bobby Hull, a member of the National Hockey League (NHL) Hall of Fame and one of the greatest players in hockey history. In the 1989-90 season, Brett scored 72 goals, leading the NHL and breaking the all-time record for goals by a winger (a winger is a forward in hockey who does not play center). To prove he wasn't a one-year wonder, in the 1990-91 season Brett scored 86 goals and won the Hart Memorial Trophy as the league's Most Valuable Player. In the year's that followed he established himself as one of the most dangerous snipers in the NHL.

Brett Andrew Hull was born August 8, 1964, in Belleville, Ontario, Canada. As a young child growing up, first in Chicago (where...