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A talk with the Avs captains

Found September 12, 2009 on All Things Avs:
PLAYERS: Adam Foote,  Paul Stastny
TEAMS: Colorado Avalanche

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Avalanche held pre-camp physicals and other testing this morning at the Pepsi Center. Camp starts tomorrow morning at 9 sharp. I’ll have a couple of stories in tomorrow’s paper. In the meantime, here’s some video taken of the Avs’ new set of captains, starting with the big dawg of course, Adam Foote: Next up, Paul Stastny: And [...]
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