Calgary Flames sign Tyson Barrie to 1-year contract

The Calgary Flames signed defenceman Tyson Barrie to a one-year declaration worthy US$1.25 cardinal connected Thursday.

The 33-year-old from Victoria was invited to Flames’ grooming campy connected a nonrecreational tryout contract.

The seasoned of implicit 800 NHL games volition commencement his 14th NHL play with the Flames.

His 505 vocation points – 109 goals and 396 assists – fertile 11th among progressive NHL defencemen heading into the 2024-25 season.

Barrie has played for the Colorado Avalanche, Toronto Maple Leafs, Edmonton Oilers and Nashville Predators during his career.

Barrie and Flames skipper Backlund are erstwhile Western Hockey League teammates with the Kelowna Rockets successful 2008-09.

Flames caput manager Ryan Huska coached that Rockets squad to a WHL rubric that year.

Barrie, a five-foot-11, 197-pound defender with a right-handed changeable is simply a power-play specializer with a vocation 210 power-play points.

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He was drafted successful the 3rd circular by the Avalanche successful 2009.

Barrie won a golden medal astatine the 2015 men’s satellite championship, a metallic successful 2017 and different metallic playing for Canada astatine the satellite inferior men’s title successful 2011.

The Flames reason their pre-season Friday against the Winnipeg Jets earlier opening the regular play connected the roadworthy Oct. 9 successful Vancouver against the Canucks.