Tyson Barrie announced his retirement from professional hockey at age 34 after playing 822 NHL games across five organizations. He spent one season with the Toronto Maple Leafs following a 2019 trade that sent Nazem Kadri to Colorado for Barrie and Alex Kerfoot. In 2019-20 Barrie recorded five goals and 39 points in 70 games, with a minus-7 rating and 16 penalty minutes, and saw declines in shots and shooting percentage compared to his Colorado output. Barrie later signed with Edmonton, was a minor part of the Ekholm trade, and played 13 games for the Calgary Flames last season.
Before the 2019-20 season, the Maple Leafs made a trade that would set off a series of events and have so many fans asking "What if?" to themselves several times a day. It was a bigger package with more parts than this, but essentially, Toronto dealt homegrown center Nazem Kadri to the Colorado Avalanche for Barrie, and center Alex Kerfoot. It is a move that now some view as one of the worst trades for the Leafs in modern history.
During the 2019-20 season -- his only one with the Maple Leafs -- Barrie scored five goals and 39 points in 70 games. He had a minus-7 rating and took a whole 16 penalty minutes. His offense, compared to his days in Colorado, was suffocated -- his shots on goal went down, his shooting percentage suffered, and he wasn't anywhere close to the reliable 50-point offensive defenseman he was when lighting it up with Nathan MacKinnon in Denver.
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