CrashingTheGoalie

by Ron Spence

Peter McNab is this big, friendly guy with many hockey contacts and all sorts of hockey moxie.

He played in the NHL for such teams as the Canucks and Bruins, and his father, Max was a hockey icon. He played with the Red Wings on one Stanley Cup team, and finished his playing career with the New Westminster Bruins of the old Western Hockey League. Later, he was the GM with the Capitals and Devils.

Peter’s brother, David, is also a hockey man – Brian Burke’s Assistant General Manager in Anaheim.

Peter is now the color analyst on the Avs’ Altitude telecasts.

courtesy of dallasdedicated.blogspot.com

Max McNab had passed away a year ago in September, and Peter was having supper with dad’s old teammate, Gordie Howe – during the 2008 playoffs.

They were talking about life in general, hockey in particular, and then the conversation focused on Sean Avery’s behaviour in front of Martin Brodeur.

“If I was playing,” Gordie said flatly, “he wouldn’t be standing there.”

McNab told the Denver Post’s Jim Armstrong: “That’s all. There was no threat like, ‘OK, I’m going to get this guy.’ It was just, ‘If I was playing, he wouldn’t be standing there.’ ”

Myself, I’d put my money on the eighty-year-old Howe dumping the Dallas imposter on his ass today.