I was around for Hull's entire NHL career. I saw him play in his last season with the Winnipeg Jets in their first season in the NHL, 1979-80, in a game against the Los Angeles Kings. Actually, I saw only the last two periods. A friend called me around 7 p.m. and said a friend of his who owned a bar was not using his pair of season tickets that night, and did I want to go see the Jets. It was not a game I would have paid to see, but since I hadn't seen Hull play during his WHL years, I decided to go see one of the NHL's greatest for what was probably the last time. It was. By the time we'd rushed to pick up the tickets from the friend's bar and reached the Inglewood Forum, the first period had just ended.
Hull still gave the impression of power, but he was painfully slow given what he once had been. He looked quite a bit over his best playing weight and appeared sluggish. He did not play many NHL games after that one. It was 20 years since he had broken into the NHL, and the Hull of the 1960s is the one I like to remember. He stayed on a bit too long.