Darren McCarty realizes he might draw a few boos at the Red Wings-Avalanche alumni game Friday night at Coors Field.
"Oh, I expect it," the former Detroit winger said with a smile Friday morning. "If I don't, I'm going to be disappointed. I'll be (mad) if I don't get booed, put it that way. You want me to come into the crowd? Don't boo me!"
McCarty, one of the central figures in the most heated moments of the rivalry's heyday, was talking in the same Four Seasons Hotel meeting room where ex-Avalanche winger Claude Lemieux appeared a few minutes earlier.