He played for the U.S. National team, the U.S Olympic team and was a member of the U.S. team that won the 1996 World Cup. With a mouth like his, he has to be an American. He's also the purest scorer in American hockey history. Wanting to help his family, Mullen turned pro with the St. Louis Blues in 1980. No one ever worked harder in front of the net to score.
Chip shots through a maze of bodies.
He simply knew how to score goals. He may only get the puck an inch over the line, but he would produce. Baker played for Princeton from 1910-14 and dominated the sport like no one has since. Based on news accounts of the time, Baker was considered to be in the class of the great Canadian NHL star, Cyclone Taylor . Like Taylor, The New York Times , never prone to exaggeration, wrote about Baker like today's papers write about Wayne Gretzky .