Forget Magazine. Remember, Remember, Remember.

1. I don't think it's fair that when a writer praises one player or sees everything in a certain light he downgrades another by overlooking or belittling his efforts. Bobby would be the first to agree.

2. Naturally the crowd reacts more to Bobby. I'm sure if I started carrying the puck from behind the net and beat two or three of the opposition and got down to the other team's blue line and let a few slapshots go, even if I missed the net and just hit the boards, people would jump up.

3. Bobby can be nice anytime he wants to. Writers made an issue of that saying, Mikita is a surly so-and-so while Hull is the all-American kid next door who shows his pearly white teeth every chance he gets, and nobody ever sees him with a frown on his face. Well, that's the way he is, I'm the way I am.

4. I don't have blond hair like Bobby and nobody called me the Golden Jet or the Blond Bomber. I don't have the natural good looks that Bobby has, but then he's got a few scars, too.

5. One reason people have given Bobby this good guy image is because he does stop, does sign autographs, no matter where is he is, whether we win, lose or draw, on the road or at home. I get too uncomfortable if I keep others waiting. But as long as it makes some kids happy, Bobby's better off for doing it.

6. We ran around together, we double-dated, we went to shows. We were good friends then and we're good friends now, and people writing or saying that Bobby Hull is No. 1 doesn't change that. It's fine with me.

*List items taken from chapter 11, "Bobby and I", of I Play To Win, by Stan Mikita.

Matthew Dorrell knows how to crosscheck. Vicious.