

The backcheckers were running into each other that night. "I remember that because it didn't happen very often," Hall said of shutting out the Canadiens in Montreal. The Blues would thump the Montreal Canadiens 5-0 on Dec. Just give me a pair of size 9s like the ones you have in the window,'" Hall said, laughing. "I told the guy behind the counter, 'Don't say a word. Marseille's rubber galoshes, and wearing that and the one shoe he had left, walked into a downtown shoe store. Upon arrival in Montreal, Hall borrowed one of teammate Frank St. "Pic just kept saying to me, with that thick French accent, 'Truly, truly … I t'ot it was Gus' shoe!'" Hall said Thursday from his farm in Stony Plain, Alberta. Hall awoke to find one of his shoes missing and immediately pinned the blame on Picard, a notorious practical joker. At some point during the night, Picard took one of the shoes, apparently thinking it was Kyle's, and threw it off the speeding train into a snowbank. Kyle was above Hall in the train's sleeper car, the shoes of both men under Hall's berth.

The Blues were riding an overnight train from Toronto to Montreal, and Picard had been having an argument with St. It's not about Picard's pitchfork that sent Boston Bruins defenseman Bobby Orr flying an instant after Orr scored in overtime of Game 4 to complete the Bruins' four-game sweep of the Blues in the 1970 Stanley Cup Final.
