If you're going to play hockey now, you have to be able to play. If you have the ability to fight and play, you're an unbelievable commodity. But if you can only fight, there might be six of those guys left in the league, and I can guarantee they're going fast.

I just want to play. The sixth game of the series went to overtime tied 1–1 while Dallas held a 3–2 series lead. League officials stated that that very scenario was addressed in a memo sent to the league's on-ice officials prior to the start of the playoffs.

He was named a first team all-star on three occasions and played in eight NHL All-Star Games. Pearson Award that year as the league's most valuable player. Brett Andrew Hull (born August 9 1964) is a Canadian-born American former National Hockey League (NHL) player and general manager and currently an executive vice president and alternate governor of the Dallas Stars.