Brett Hull Stats By Team: The Complete Career Record

Brett Hull scored 741 goals in 1,269 regular-season games, the fifth-highest total in NHL history, and 527 of them came in a St. Louis sweater. He scored against every one of the 30 franchises he ever faced. His best opponent was the New York Islanders, where he put up 55 points in 32 games, a rate of 1.719 that no other club comes close to.

The pattern underneath the table is stranger than that. The two clubs Hull scored most goals against are the two clubs he won the Stanley Cup with. Sixty-six against Dallas, sixty against Detroit, and then a drop to Toronto at 53. He joined Dallas in 1998 and won the Cup there in 1999. He joined Detroit in 2001 and won it there in 2002.

And one blank shouldn’t exist. Hull scored 18 goals and 43 points in 30 games against Pittsburgh, a rate of 1.433 that is his third-best against anybody, and not one of his 110 career game-winning goals came against them.

Brett Hull’s stats against every NHL team

Regular season, career complete. Ranked by points per game. Career rate 1.096.

Opponent	GP	G	A	PTS	PTS/GP	S	S%
New York Islanders	32	30	25	55	1.719	155	19.4
Toronto Maple Leafs	73	53	52	105	1.438	334	15.9
Pittsburgh Penguins	30	18	25	43	1.433	121	14.9
Dallas Stars (Minnesota North Stars to 1993)	83	66	45	111	1.337	370	17.8
Edmonton Oilers	59	41	36	77	1.305	250	16.4
Carolina Hurricanes (Hartford Whalers to 1997)	36	24	20	44	1.222	145	16.6
Detroit Red Wings	74	60	30	90	1.216	327	18.3
Ottawa Senators	19	12	11	23	1.211	60	20.0
Winnipeg Jets (see note)	45	25	28	53	1.178	230	10.9
Boston Bruins	30	19	16	35	1.167	121	15.7
Anaheim Ducks (Mighty Ducks)	47	32	22	54	1.149	170	18.8
Washington Capitals	31	14	21	35	1.129	102	13.7
Los Angeles Kings	68	47	28	75	1.103	259	18.1
St. Louis Blues	26	15	13	28	1.077	69	21.7
Philadelphia Flyers	29	15	15	30	1.034	107	14.0
San Jose Sharks	51	22	30	52	1.020	187	11.8
Vancouver Canucks	62	36	27	63	1.016	210	17.1
Montreal Canadiens	28	17	11	28	1.000	132	12.9
Buffalo Sabres	30	16	13	29	0.967	122	13.1
Tampa Bay Lightning	25	14	10	24	0.960	102	13.7
Columbus Blue Jackets	20	10	9	19	0.950	47	21.3
Chicago Blackhawks	97	46	46	92	0.948	350	13.1
New York Rangers	30	15	12	27	0.900	114	13.2
Florida Panthers	17	7	8	15	0.882	65	10.8
New Jersey Devils	34	18	11	29	0.853	121	14.9
Utah Mammoth (Phoenix Coyotes)	39	15	18	33	0.846	114	13.2
Minnesota Wild	17	2	12	14	0.824	36	5.6
Colorado Avalanche (Quebec Nordiques to 1995)	52	20	22	42	0.808	173	11.6
Calgary Flames	56	25	20	45	0.804	198	12.6
Nashville Predators	29	7	14	21	0.724	85	8.2
Career	1269	741	650	1391	1.096	4876	15.2

How the franchises are counted. Rows use the franchise’s current name, with the club Hull actually faced in brackets where the name has changed. Two rows need more than a bracket. Winnipeg Jets combines the original Winnipeg Jets, who left for Phoenix in 1996, with the Atlanta Thrashers, who became the current Jets in 2011. Hull faced both clubs but never the current Winnipeg team, so that row combines two different cities. Utah Mammoth is the Phoenix Coyotes of 1996 to 2006, the club Hull ended his career with. He never faced Vegas or Seattle, both of which entered the league after he retired.

How many goals did Brett Hull score?

7141 goals in 1,269 games, which works out to 47.9 per 82-game season and ranks fifth in NHL history behind Alex Ovechkin’s 930, Wayne Gretzky’s 894, Gordie Howe’s 801, and Jaromir Jagr’s 766.

He took 4,876 shots at 15.2%, and 265 of the 741 came on the power play, or 35.8%. One hundred and ten were game-winners, and 20 were scored shorthanded.

The distribution by opponent is lopsided in a way the points column hides. Against Dallas he scored 66, against Detroit 60, against Toronto 53. Against the Minnesota Wild, in 17 games, he scored two.

How many points did Brett Hull have?

One thousand three hundred and ninety-one: 741 goals and 650 assists, at 1.096 points a game, or 89.9 across a full season. Goals make up 53.3% of the total, which is unusual at that volume and tells you what kind of player he was. His career plus-minus was +23 across 19 seasons.

What were Brett Hull’s stats per game?

1.096 points, 0.584 goals and 0.512 assists per game, on 3.84 shots a night. The spread by opponent runs from 1.719 against the Islanders to 0.724 against Nashville, which over 82 games is the difference between 141 points and 59. Most of the range is sample size, but not all of it: Toronto at 1.438 and Chicago at 0.948 are both large samples, 73 and 97 games.

Which team did Brett Hull score most against?

By goals, it is Dallas, with 66 in 83 games; that row also leads in points (111), shots (370), and penalty minutes (48). By rate, the New York Islanders lead, and the gap is wide. Fifty-five points in 32 games is 1.719 a game, where his second-best is Toronto at 1.438. He scored 30 goals against the Islanders on 155 shots, a shooting percentage of 19.4.

Toronto is the one to read if you want a large sample that is also exceptional: 105 points in 73 games, 53 goals, and 24 power-play goals, more than he scored against any other club. Vancouver gave up 10 of his 110 game-winners, more than anyone.

Then there is St. Louis, the club he scored 527 goals for and faced 26 times after he left. He scored 15 goals on 69 shots against them, a shooting percentage of 21.7%, the highest he managed against any opponent he met more than 20 times. He also never scored a game-winner against them.

Which team shut Brett Hull down?

Nashville, at 0.724 points a game across 29 meetings, with seven goals on 85 shots. That 8.2% is his worst shooting percentage against any club he faced 25 times or more, barely half his career figure.

Chicago is the more interesting row, because of the sample and because of the name. Hull faced the Blackhawks 97 times, more than any other opponent, and scored 46 goals and 92 points, a rate of 0.948 that sits below his career average. Chicago is his father Bobby Hull’s club.

The Minnesota Wild line is the true outlier: 17 games, two goals, 36 shots, 5.6%, no power-play goals and no game-winners. The Wild entered the league in 2000, in Hull’s 15th season, and they are one of two clubs he faced ten times or more without scoring a single power-play goal against. Columbus is the other, at 20 games and zero.

How many teams did Brett Hull play for?

Five, across 19 NHL seasons from 1986-87 to 2005-06.

Club	Seasons	GP	G	PTS
St. Louis Blues	1987-88 to 1997-98	744	527	936
Detroit Red Wings	2001-02 to 2003-04	245	92	207
Dallas Stars	1998-99 to 2000-01	218	95	196
Calgary Flames	1986-87 to 1987-88	57	27	51
Phoenix Coyotes	2005-06	5	0	1

Calgary drafted him 117th overall in 1984 and traded him to St. Louis 52 games into the 1987-88 season, which is the single most consequential transaction in Blues history. He is the Blues’ all-time leading goal scorer with 527. His last NHL season was five games with Phoenix in 2005-06, after the lockout wiped out 2004-05, and he did not score.

What was Brett Hull’s best season?

1990-91 with St. Louis: 86 goals in 78 games, with 45 assists for 131 points, on 389 shots at 22.1%. That is the third-highest single-season goal total in NHL history, behind only Wayne Gretzky’s 92 in 1981-82 and 87 in 1983-84, and ahead of Mario Lemieux’s 85 in 1988-89.

It was the middle year of a run that is hard to believe on paper: 72 goals in 1989-90, 86 in 1990-91, 70 in 1991-92. He won the Hart Trophy as league MVP in 1990-91 and the Ted Lindsay Award, then called the Lester B. Pearson, the same season. He had taken the Lady Byng the year before.

How many Stanley Cups did Brett Hull win?

Two. Dallas in 1999 and Detroit in 2002, at the ages of 34 and 37, after 12 seasons without one. The 1999 goal that won it in Buffalo is still argued about in two cities.

What were Brett Hull’s playoff stats?

He scored 103 goals and added 87 assists for 190 points in 202 playoff games, averaging 0.941 points per game, down from 1.096 in the regular season. He took 803 playoff shots at 12.8%, with 38 power-play goals and 24 game-winners.

His biggest postseason was 1999-00 with Dallas, when he had 24 points in 23 games. His first NHL appearance was a playoff game: two games for Calgary in the spring of 1986, before he played a regular-season minute.