In Tretiak's autobiography he talks about Hull's shot during the '74 series with the WHA teams. Hull had six goals in the first four games, and essentially Tretiak said he couldn't see the puck. Tretiak saw the puck on Hull's stick, then it was in the net, and he couldn't see anything in between. He said while other players had some type of draw back or blade movement for wrist shots, Hull was truly all wrist and had no pull back on the blade at all. I don't know if Hull really hit 118 mph on his slap shot, but if Tretiak couldn't even see his wrist shot I'd imagine Bobby punished the puck pretty good with a wind up.
Bailing hay appears to be good exercise...
Bailing hay appears to be good exercise...