You knew you were on the right side of Peter McNab if he called you “pal.” All good, pal? Need help, pal? I gotcha, pal. It’s over, pal. To be McNab’s pal was a badge of honor, worn close to the heart.
“When he laughed, not only did he have different pitches of laughter, he had a body laugh,” Avalanche television play-by-play man Mark Moser recalled Monday afternoon when I asked about McNab, his broadcast partner and franchise linchpin whose overtime fight with cancer ended at the age of 70.
“His whole body would move.