Colorado Avalanche skater Tyson Barrie has filed for salary arbitration, and that makes me very frustrated.
Usually fans of a team over-value how much a player is worth. As in, “I’ll trade you John Mitchell for Sidney Crosby.” Ok, maybe not quite that extreme, but we do tend to put a high price on what our players are worth.
I feel like, unfortunately, the opposite is happening now. For some reason — 102 points in the last two seasons — practically every team wants a piece of defenseman Tyson Barrie, and that’s artificially inflating his worth.
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The Colorado Avalanche don’t usually release figures when they’re negotiating with a player.