A warts-and-all treatment of Hull's very public mid-life crisis in the 1970s, supported by interviews with Hull himself and many others who played with him and knew him throughout his career. When he walked away from the NHL it was payback for the hard feelings between Hull and the Wirtz family, owners of the Chicago Black Hawks. Joyce presents the case that Hull is the most influential player the game has ever seen, and is its most unfairly overlooked superstar.