Tyson Barrie announced his retirement from the NHL after a 14-season career.
Barrie, 34, participated in a 7-7 tie on Sunday between alumni for the Colorado Avalanche and Denver Pioneers. The NHL posted on Monday that Barrie called it a career.
"I was unsure about my future sort of, and yeah, it's cool," Barrie told Nathan Rudolph of DNVR Avalanche on Sunday before the alumni game. "So grateful for the career I've had and all the friends I've got to make, and good to do stuff like this now, but it is a quick turnaround. I didn't think I'd be putting my gear on for a while."
Barrie finished his NHL career as one of the most productive offensive blueliners of his time.
After the Avalanche selected Barrie 64th overall in the 2009 NHL draft, he posted 110 goals and 398 assists for 508 points in 822 regular-season games between 2011-12 and 2024-25.
In that 14-season span, Barrie ranked 10th in points among NHL defensemen.
Barrie played 10 games in 2011-12, but he recorded his first point on Feb. 14, 2013, with an assist against the Minnesota Wild. He added another two assists against one of his future teams, the Edmonton Oilers, in the next game, then scored his first goal against another future employer, the Nashville Predators, two nights later.
He ended up with 13 points in 32 games for the Avalanche that season, then stepped it up with 38 points in 64 games in 2013-14.
But Barrie really broke out in Colorado in 2014-15, when he put up 41 assists and 53 points in 80 games while averaging 21:22 in ice time. That was the first of four 50-point campaigns and seven 40-point seasons in his career.
Barrie played 484 games for the Avalanche and had 307 points, which ranks second in scoring by a blueliner in franchise history. Cale Makar and his 428 points are first.
Colorado traded Barrie with Alexander Kerfoot and a sixth-round pick to the Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for Nazem Kadri, Calle Rosen and a third-rounder in July 2019. Barrie played one season for the Leafs, scoring 39 points, before signing with Edmonton the following off-season.
Barrie led all blueliners in scoring during the shortened 2020-21 season, with 48 points in 56 games.
After parts of three seasons with the Oilers, Barrie was traded to the Predators with Reid Schaefer, a 2023 first-round pick and a 2024 fourth-rounder in exchange for Mattias Ekholm and a 2024 sixth-rounder in February 2023.
Barrie played parts of two seasons in Nashville. He signed with the Calgary Flames in 2024-25, recording a goal and two assists in 13 games and adding another five points in 11 AHL games for the Calgary Wranglers.
On top of his regular-season stats, Barrie also had two goals and 19 assists for 21 points in 47 playoff games. The closest he got to winning the Stanley Cup was in 2021-22 with the Oilers, when they reached the Western Conference final.
Outside of the NHL, the Victoria, B.C., native won a gold medal at the 2015 World Championship on Team Canada, recording six points in 1`0 games. In 2017, he won silver and had seven points in three games. He also received silver at the 2011 world juniors.
Before his pro career began, Barrie was a WHL champion in 2009 and the league's top defenseman in 2010. He also played in the AHL All-Star Game in 2012.
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