Brett Hull owns so many career records for the St. Louis Blues that you can write a book on it. But you might not know how far ahead he is in one major stat.
If you look at career hat tricks, Hull is light years ahead of the No. 2 man on the list, Bernie Federko. Because across his 11 seasons with the Blues, Hull recorded a remarkable 27 hat tricks, a record that nobody on the Blues will come close to.
Thnk about it like this: 27 divided by 11 equals 2.45 hat tricks per season, on average. If that's not one of the most impressive stats in Blues history, I don't know what is. It's hard enough, even in the age of higher scoring and more offense, to reach two hatties per season, so it puts into even more perspective of how dominant Hull was during his time in Arch City.
No, Brett Hull's single-season record of hat tricks didn't occur in 1990-91
Want more fun? Hull's memorable 1990-91 season that saw him record 86 goals was not the year he recorded the most hat tricks in a single campaign. Instead, you need to fast-forward to 1991-92 when he put up eight of them.
That year, Hull recorded 70 goals, which saw him lead the league in goals scored for the third straight season. He also had 39 assists, giving him 109 points on the season.
So no, nobody's getting anywhere near that single-season mark anytime soon, either. Robert Thomas might approach Adam Oates in assists and Jordan Binnington will keep threatening single-season records so long as he's wearing the blue music note, but everyone else in the immediate future of this franchise is competing for second place.
Brett Hull didn't record as many hat tricks in his later career, but still finished with 33
Heading into the 2025-26 season, Hull is fourth all-time in career hat tricks, trailing only Wayne Gretzky (50), Mario Lemieux (40), and Mike Bossy (39). But Alex Ovechkin is closing the gap with 32, so that might be an interesting storyline to watch for Blues fans, to see if Ovi ties or ultimately passes Hull.
Hull's eight hat tricks in a single season is fifth all-time, behind only Gretzky (10 in two different seasons), and Mario Lemieux and Mike Bossy, who recorded nine in 1988-89 and 1980-81, respectively. Still, nobody on the Blues has even come close that single-season number in recent years.
It's also impossible to see anyone coming close to Brett Hull's franchise-record 86 goals from the 1990-91 season. Even with the game seeing more scoring, it's hard to imagine a single player in today's game, let alone anyone on the Blues, accomplish something like that unless the NHL makes about a dozen rule-changes to favor more scoring.
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