One night wife and I were only folks at a large table in the Quarterdeck Lounge, the upstairs bar from The Wharf restaurant in Old Town. Bugsy Watson arrived with an entourage, and the staff at the Quarterdeck asked if we would be willing to surrender the table for Mr. Watson and his friends. I sort of didn't appreciate that (though we were about to finish our final beers) and so I said no, but that they were welcome to join us at the table.
I immediately regretted my impetuous remark, as Bugsy took his seat next to me and, somewhat surprisingly, was gracious in his thanks for our invitation and introduced all the folks with him to my wife and I.
For those not in the know - When Bryan "Bugsy" Watson retired from the Washington Capitals, he held the all-time penalty minutes record for the NHL. He was no stranger to mixing it up a bit.
Anyway, emboldened by the beer, at some point I turned to him and proclaimed - "you know, when you were with the Red Wings, I used to root for Blair Stewart to kick your ass". Stewart was a very competent fighter for the Caps. Bugsy just laughed, and said "let me show you what I used to to old Blairsy" and proceeded to put me in a headlock, and apply some moderately gentle noogies to my noggin.
So I got that going for me. I got noogies from the great, wonderful human being and notable NHL tough - Bugsy Watson. RIP friend.
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