Rob Blake

Were you the only team with a private?

We were the only one.

I think us and then Detroit might've got it right after, but yeah, Mr. McNall had it.

Guys love McNall then.

Holy, he was terrific.

As far, I understand the troubles and all that thing, but the way he treated the players was amazing.

above and beyond but that's when the celebrities were coming in the dressing room win or lose the you know president reagan uh sly salone who was they were coming around the dressing room and i'm just like this is this is so i'm talking to my friends that are you know nelson and some of these guys playing other time like this is what we do in la it's pretty nice were you uh who were you starstruck by who did you meet when you're like oh my god like uh well goldie hahn kurt russell were there all the time and but but they're in the dressing room not even five minutes after the game

And it's always right in front of Gretz's stall.

And so when you watch him and you see how he could do this and how he could welcome that and allow his teammates to share, it was a pretty special time in LA early on.

Yeah, go right up the stairs from the visiting room.

They had a little section in the back that was a great setup for us.

You would have had an apartment in there.

Well, they would go right from there to the Harry O's in Manhattan beach.

That was the bar too.

So, and we got to know the bus driver for the visiting teams and that's all he would do is pull the visiting teams bus right over to Harry O's and they come in the back door and both teams have been there having fun.

No way.

The guys were all pretty good.

And, you know, it made it difficult for our home games because those teams, they wanted that night out.

That's a little carrot for them.

They go up the form, club them out after.