{"id":4854,"date":"2013-09-09T20:05:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T20:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/hull-returns-to-st-louis-in-front-office-role\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T20:05:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T20:05:00","slug":"hull-returns-to-st-louis-in-front-office-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/hull-returns-to-st-louis-in-front-office-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Hull returns to St. Louis in front office role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis, MO (Sports Network) &#8211; The St. Louis Blues announced that Hall of Famer Brett Hull has returned to the franchise.<\/p>\n<p>Hull was welcomed as the club&#8217;s new executive vice during a press conference at Scottrade Center on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are pleased and proud to announce that Brett Hull is coming home to the St. Louis Blues. &#8220;Brett was a Hall of Famer on ice, and he&#8217;ll be a Hall of Famer in this capacity as well,&#8221; said Blues chairman Tom Stillman.<\/p>\n<p>Hull was acquired from Calgary late in the 1987-88 season and over the next 10-plus campaigns rewrote the franchise record books. He ranks at the top of the list for goals (527), hat tricks (27), game-winning goals (70), power-play goals (195) and shots on goal (3,367), and second in assists (409), points (936) and shorthanded goals (18). Hull also tallied three consecutive seasons of 70-or-more goals from 1989-92 and owns both the club mark for single-season tallies as well as the NHL record for right wingers with 86, accomplished in 1990-91,<\/p>\n<p>Following the end of a legendary 20-year NHL career during which he compiled 741 goals, the 49-year-old moved into management with the Dallas Stars in 2006, rising to the level of co-general manager with Les Jackson in November of 2007.<\/p>\n<p>He was eventually fired in 2009, replaced by former Dallas teammate Joe Nieuwendyk, but remained with the club as an advisor. Hull later worked as executive vice president and alternate governor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I never wanted to leave 15 years ago, and I&#8217;m glad I&#8217;m back, I can tell you that,&#8221; admitted Hull.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis, MO (Sports Network) &#8211; The St. Louis Blues announced that Hall of Famer Brett Hull has returned to the franchise. Hull was welcomed as the club&#8217;s new executive vice during a press conference at Scottrade Center on Monday. &#8220;We are pleased and proud to announce that Brett Hull is coming home to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}