Word: mcnab
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...beginning, Wayne Cashman rapped a rebound past Billy Smith and Peter McNab scored from the slot and the Boston Bruins led the New York Islanders, 2-0, and the Gallery Gods saw that it was good...
Terry O'Reilly, who after five majors in two games shunned fisticuffs for the entire evening, (although he did square off with Garry Howatt at one point), rammed a Peter McNab set-up past Islander goalie Billy Smith from the bottom of the right face-off circle at 17:13 of overtime to return the series to Boston and change the night's theme song from "We Are the Champions" to "Stayin' Alive...
...nemesis, Clark Gillies, had certified Boston's death certificate when he rapped a shot between Cheevers' pads off an assist from linemate Butch Goring. That goal, which came with 6:40 left in the third period, broke a 2-2 tie which Boston had gained on a rebound by McNab ten minutes earlier...
Boston's Peter McNab finally broke the deadlock 51 seconds into the third stanza. He lifted a rebound past Smith from a tangle of players in front of the New York net moments after the Islander goalie had kicked out a blast from the point by Brad Park...
...short-lived, however, as the New Yorkers responded with a fluke goal at 3:49. Cheevers survived a close call when Bobby Nystrom's 65-foot slapshot grazed the right post, but had no such luck when Garry Howatt's blind centering pass from behind the net bounded off McNab's skates and into the cage...