Respect is final takeaway from Wings-Avalanche rivalry

(Photo: John Leyba / Denver Post)Denver — There were no punches thrown, no excessive chippiness or anything like that.

No faked punches or anything staged, either.

But Friday’s Stadium Series alumni game between the Red Wings and Colorado Avalanche showed the healthy respect on both sides.

Even if it was an exhibition game, and no spot in the Stanley Cup Finals was at stake.

“There were pretty good battles, you felt those,” Kris Draper said. “You felt that a little bit. The stops and starts, the battling.”

The closest there was to anything outrageously physical?

Kris Draper delivered a nasty little crosscheck to Avalanche defenseman Adam Foote.

It so happens it was Foote who said in a radio…