McNab’s story well was endless. The Too Many Men penalty. MSG in 1979, fighting the fans. But after his NHL playing days, one of his favorite parts of broadcasting Avalanche games was reconnecting with unlikely friends.
Peter McNab
Featherstone-Wenner noticed he used her date’s full name — like a taxi driver did earlier. “Peter McNab!”There were more encounters like that one. She finally pried from McNab that he used to play hockey, and she learned on her own that he was pretty darn good at it. “They’re just being sweet,” he would tell her when fans interrupted, rudely or otherwise.
Boston Bruins forward Peter McNab celebrates after a goal against the Quebec Nordiques during a Stanley Cup series playoff NHL hockey game in Boston, April 23, 1982. That didn’t mean he wasn’t capable. Once, in a preseason brawl with the Flyers that strayed toward the locker rooms, McNab found himself one-on-one with Mel Bridgman, “who was one tough customer,” Milbury remembers. “But it was toe-to-toe. Peter wasn’t ducking. He was throwing punches like a jackhammer.”. As the story goes, the Bruins had just won a thriller on Dec. 23, 1979, when a Rangers fan reached over the glass and snatched the stick of Stan Jonathan.
“I was happy as a clam,” he said. “I look up and there’s Peter. … He had somebody over the back of a chair, so head was down and his feet were sticking up.”
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