from Dave Stubbs of NHL.com,

STONY PLAIN, Alberta -- Glenn Hall was roughly 1,900 miles from St. Louis on Saturday, swallowed up by a sofa in the den of the sprawling farmhouse that sits on his 160-acre spread.

But the man known forever as Mr. Goalie was very much at Enterprise Center in spirit, a handful of Blues jerseys scattered around his home and memories washing back over him a half-century later.

Having "just learned my doorbell," as Hall joked, the Hockey Hall of Famer used my Twitter account (with some gentle direction) to share his observations of the Blues' 7-2 loss to the Boston Bruins in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final. If the result left him a bit deflated, he was delighted when fans asked him to share memories of his playing career and of the many people whose paths he crossed from the Detroit Red Wings to the Chicago Black Hawks to the Blues.

Hall will be in front of his TV, twitter once again just a sound made by the birds on his property, for Game 4 on Monday with the Bruins leading the best-of-7 series 2-1 (8 p.m. ET; NBC, CBC, SN, TVAS).

"I'll be honest, I didn't understand a lot of it," he said with a laugh of his first and final, he declared, social-media experience. "Technology has changed so much. I'm not 19 any more, I don't know anything about this. But having so many fans reach out to me, that was wonderful."

The NHL had extended an invitation to Hall to come to St. Louis for Game 3. But at 87, with long connecting flights, travel was daunting and he politely declined. With our friendship going back many years, he invited me to come to his farm to watch the game. I accepted immediately, provided he agree to live-tweet the game from his sofa.

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