Not trying to be an anus. Just curious. How many of you saw all the players on the list play live....not film clips but actually see them live at the Stadium or the UC.
I ran into Mikita a couple of times when I was a little kid- but never saw Bobby or Dennis Hull play, or Mikita, also never saw Amonte -think the last game I went to was during the season they won the President's Trophy -so that was before his time.
Saw all the others though.
And considering the few games that I had been too - I had seen hat tricks from Larmer (I think 2 times), Troy Murray once, and Roenick once. Larmer and Murray had hat tricks in a game about on New Years day 1986 or it might have been NYE ... against the Mario Lemieux led Pens. I wish that digital cameras were invented back then... would have had a nice little photo album of that stuff.
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Edit:
Making the distinction that my opinion of my favorite Blackhawk and my opinion of the top all-time Hawk are different.
Mikita is number 1 - no doubt in my mind (he performed at the same level as Hull on the team while usually being on a different line, and got assists instead of goals), did it from 1959-1980 ... changed his game fundimentally from a chippy player to a Lady Byng winner while still maintaining the same level of effectiveness.
However, considering I decided I wanted to play Left Wing largely because of Bobby Hull -the Hawks were the only team in town when I was growing up -and Hull was synonymous with the Hawks... -Hull is my personal, all time favorite Hawk. Best hairpiece too ... well, better than Donald Trump's -- or maybe it is Trump's - they might have a time share deal on it. Got his book too (Hull's- it was a hockey instructional book - lots of diagrams, as well as some flip pages that if you fan the pages it sort of gives you an animated view of a lot of moves, including his dreaded slapshot.
The man played like a tank division.
My kinda guy.
