The results of defenseman Tyson Barrie‘s salary arbitration hearing with the Colorado Avalanche are in:
Four years at an annual average value of $5.5 million.
Even before the results, I was shaking my head about the whole process — a lot of Colorado Avalanche fans were. It doesn’t matter your chosen camp in (greedy) player vs (tightwad) team. This was just ridiculous.
The two sides were never far off. Yet they were the only ones to go the whole distance in the salary arbitration process this year. That’s 23 other cases — including one between the Avalanche and Mikhail Grigorenko — that got decided in a pre-arbitration settlement.