So much for a civil runup to tonight's Red Wings-Avalanche alumni game.
In an interview on ESPN 104.3 The Fan in Denver, when asked whom he'd most like to punch in the face the Avs' Adam Foote replied without hesitation the Red Wings' Kris Draper.
"Draper for sure," said Foote, when prompted by hosts Mark Schlereth and Mike Evans who suggested the former NHLer would be "putting on the foil" for the alumni showdown at Coors Field (7 p.m. FSD/97.1).
"There's something about him that turns my stomach the wrong way."
Foote shed some insight on the Claude Lemieux hit on Draper, which set the tone for the bad blood in the heated rivalry.