Tyson Barrie signs four-year deal with Avalanche

Tyson Barrie has signed a four-year, $22-million contract with the Colorado Avalanche.

The defenceman had 13 goals and 49 points in 78 games last season, while earning $3.2 million.

He went into an arbitration hearing on Friday asking for a one-year contract worth $6 million, while Colorado countered with a two-year offer with an average annual value of $4.125 million.

Colorado drafted the 25-year-old in the third round (64th overall) of the 2009 NHL Draft. He has 40 goals and 113 assists in 264 career NHL games.

Barrie was the only player to actually have an arbitration hearing this summer. All other cases, of which there were 24, were settled beforehand.

The Avalanche now have $959,407 in cap space, according to General Fanager. Barrie becomes the second-highest paid defender on Colorado’s roster, with AAV ($5.5 million) that comes in slightly under Erik Johnson ($6 million).

The former Kelowna Rocket has already tied Sandis Ozolinsh for the most game-winning goals by a defenceman in franchise history with 11. No Avalanche/Nordiques blue-liner has ever scored more overtime goals than Barrie, who has four.

July 31, 2016

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Tyson Barrie
SIGNED BY
Colorado Avalanche
LENGTH
4 yrs
CONTRACT TYPE
Re-signing
SALARY CAP HIT
$5.5 million
TOTAL
$22 million

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