Word: mcnab
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
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...
...there is much more to the Flyers' success than a new strategy. Says Center Peter McNab of the Boston Bruins: "They have a lot of talent, but they don't have a lot of superstars. What they do have is a lot of guys with the most important talent of all-the talent to work hard...