Hi everyone! It’s great to be back! It’s been an interesting week. I’ve been cutting back on sugar these last two weeks, and I’m starting to see a difference. I’m not even all that grumpy that my blood sugar is now officially more blood than sugar. That’s probably a good thing, I suppose. Sugar, I think, is not absolutely necessary to life, but it certainly adds a little fun, doesn’t it, much like hockey players who offer fans a little more than just goals and assists. Connor McDavid can really rack up the points, but man, can that guy ever do it with flair. Other superstars put up big numbers too, but the flair factor is not quite the same. If there were two guys in the NHL back in the Seals days who genuinely got fans excited, it was the two Bobbys, Orr and Hull, the latter of which is the subject of this week’s new article.

It doesn’t happen every day that I learn something new about the California Seals. I’ve been researching the team since I was about 12, and I’ve read just about everything I could get my hands on if it had anything to do with the Seals. So when I found this article from December 9, 1970 saying that Finley not only made one, but two cash offers for Bobby Hull, I was pretty stunned. Everyone talks about how the Seals would have been different had they been able to draft Guy Lafleur a few months later, but Hull in a Seals uniform is a very intriguing thought indeed. Who knows how many fans he could have drawn to the Coliseum? He might have still bolted when the WHA came into existence two years later, but you never know, maybe he would have stayed in Oakland. Fun to think about, isn’t it? If you want to read about this very little-known part of Seals history, you can find this Oakland Tribune piece right here.

Hope you all have a great weekend! Until next time, stay gold!