Nine months earlier, I\u2019d paid a visit bearing a modest gift \u2013 three portraits in a single frame, the span of Glenn\u2019s NHL career represented with photos of him in the uniform of the Red Wings, Black Hawks and Blues.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m looking at those photos now and something occurs to me,\u201d he told me. \u201cThose are the three best-looking fellows in my house.\u201d<\/p>\n
Our last time together was in February 2020, a month before the COVID-19 pandemic, at a sports celebrity dinner in Saskatoon, 75 miles west of his Humboldt birthplace. It was magical to see the love and affection showered on him by fellow Hall of Fame goaltending legends Martin Brodeur<\/a>, Grant Fuhr<\/a>, Bernie Parent<\/a> and Ed Belfour<\/a>, Mr. Goalie an idol of them all.<\/p>\n Since last September, we have said goodbye to Hall of Fame goalies Ken Dryden<\/a>, Ed Giacomin<\/a>, Parent and now Mr. Goalie.<\/p>\n It was as Pat Hall\u2019s car pulled down the long driveway onto a dark rural road in October 2015, his happy, carefree father waving farewell from the porch, that I scribbled the last words Glenn had for me that day:<\/p>\n \u201cI do nothing better than anybody you ever knew,\u201d he\u2019d said with enormous pride. \u201cI can go out and do nothing all day. And it takes me a long time to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n Top photo: Glenn Hall sits for a September 2018 portrait in front of one of the barns on his sprawling farm in Stony Plain, Alberta, his last game-worn skates slung over his shoulder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nine months earlier, I\u2019d paid a visit bearing a modest gift \u2013 three portraits in a single frame,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-399099","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}