Legendary hockey great Bobby Hull fiercely denied comments attributed to him in a Moscow daily praising Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. Hull vowed to use all legal means available against the Moscow Times for publishing what he called “outrageous lies and distortions of the truth.” The English-language paper quoted Hull as saying that Hitler “had some good ideas” but “went a bit too far.”
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