Compound words were the homework lesson the other night in the Foote household.

Matt Duchene, the 18-year-old long-term houseguest of Avalanche captain Adam Foote and his wife, Jennifer, has informally taken over as an occasional tutor for the Foote sons, Callan, 11, and Nolan, 9. Per the homework assignment, Duchene and the two Foote boys went over words like lifetime, something and sandstone.

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