After we reported about the recent rumors about Tyson Barrie being on the trade block, I got in touch with Ryan Murphy over at Mile High Hockey and asked him what he thought. He sent back...well, he has a lot of opinions:
The Avalanche have not had a great start to their season -- both their record and every metric we currently use to evaluate hockey tells us this very clearly -- but the idea they should move on from their good, young players at this juncture seems like a media fabrication to me.