With a few snips of the scissors, Mark Barberio went from heavy metal to high and tight. For those Colorado Avalanche fans who grooved on Barberio’s long, flowing mane last season, sorry. Most of it wound up on the floor of some barbershop out there this summer.
“Just a new look, you know? Changing things up a little,” Barberio said.
Barberio, though, doesn’t plan on his play taking on a correspondingly more conservative look. In his first action of the preseason Thursday night, the former Montreal Canadien continued on with the aggressive style he showed after being claimed on waivers last February.