
SB: Was it a surprise because Dallas was a different kind of team?īH: Just because of Hitchcock and Bob Gainey. I obviously knew with (head coach Ken) Hitchcock and Gainey I was going to have to change my game a little bit, but I knew they had a chance to win. He goes, 'Bob Gainey and the Dallas Stars, and here's their offer.' I said, 'Let's take it.' They're a great up-and-coming team, and I knew Carbo (Guy Carbonneau) and Mo (Mike Modano) and (Craig) Ludwig, and Nieuy (Joe Nieuwendyk) I'd played with in Calgary. Mike Barnett (Hull's longtime agent) called me up and said, 'You'll never guess who just called.' Obviously, right then, I knew it was someone I would never guess. We had been talking with Chicago and that didn't go well.

It was July 3 or something like that (actually, July 2). Scott Burnside: Do you remember the moment you found out you were going to Dallas and going to be a member of the Dallas Stars?īrett Hull: Yeah, I was in my basement here in St.
