Mark Barberio was thrown into the fire Saturday, which can get tricky in a game played on ice.
The defenseman claimed on waivers from Montreal on Thursday logged 20:31 of ice time in Colorado’s 5-2 win over Winnipeg. Colorado had 2:10 of power play time, and Barberio was on for all but 28 seconds of that.
All that, after one practice with the Avalanche.
Some of it had to do with Tyson Barrie being unable to play with a lower body injury and missing his fifth game in the past seven, and Fedor Tyutin being unavailable for the third straight game with a groin/hip injury.