Imagine you grew up in Nazareth with the name Joe Christ. Sure, maybe you can walk across a puddle or make water into wine coolers, but you'll always be overshadowed by your more celebrated brother.

Dennis Hull was a pretty damn good left winger for 14 seasons, 13 for the Blackhawks. He just had the misfortune of playing the same position in the same city with the same last name as a Hall of Fame player, his brother Bobby.

It would be easy to put him in the same boat as other athletes, like baseball players Tommy Aaron in Atlanta or Billy Ripken in Baltimore. But Dennis Hull was 5-time All Star who was good enough to play for Canada in the 1972 Summit Series.

He managed to notch 303 goals in his career, mostly on Pit Martin's left wing. Hull, Martin and Jimmy Pappin formed the MPH Line, which was one helluva line, especially considering they were the Hawks' third line. They skated together for 7 years, and notched a Blackhawks' team record 272 points in the 1972-73 season, Bobby Hull's first in the WHA. That was also Dennis' best season, combining 39 goals with 51 assists.

Dennis had a game similar to Bobby's, strong on his skates and posessing a booming slapshot. "People said Bobby could shoot a puck through a car wash and the puck would never get wet," Dennis has said, "I shot just as hard, but couldn't hit the car wash."

Dennis never really got a fair shake in the Stadium. His biggest fault was not being his brother. Rather than looking at the two Hulls as the best brother act in the NHL, the Hawks' fans took it out on Dennis for being only good, rather than great. Dennis, fortunately, kept a sense of humor about it. "My wife never went to games because of the way the Fans would yell at me," Dennis told fans at the Blackhawks' Convention. "One day we were arguing, and it was time for me to get ready to go to the game. She started getting dressed, and I asked her why she was getting dressed."

"She said she was going to the game. I asked her why, since she never went. She said she wanted to sit with 20,000 people who felt the same way about me that she did."

Once Dennis was done playing, he went to college, and became the Athletic Director at ITT. He is now in demand as a public speaker. Listening to Dennis Hull tell hockey stories is one of the greatest joys any hockey fan can have, Not only will he take you back to relive some of the greatest moments in Hawks' history, but he'll also make you laugh until your sides hurt.