Quoting: Dom1422
No what that proves is that nhl GM’s don’t value Barrie as much as you do. They would rather have Chiarot than this so called amazing 50 point Dman you speak of. So his value in a trade is not as high as you think. If he were a valuable asset teams around the league would’ve offered him more than the 4.5 he got from Edmonton.
Wait, what?? The last (only) time Barrie was traded Nazem Kadri was the return - that's FAR more than Chiarot got on the market. And he signed for just $4.5M in Edmonton because he wanted to stay and that's all they could offer. It wasn't about the money.
Quoting: Dom1422
The reason Edmonton will want to move on from him is because Bouchard has now made him expendable.
This is hilarious and very wrong. First, Barrie and Bouchard have very different play styles/ skill sets, although both are offensive defensemen. Second, teams do successfully carry more than 1 offensive defensemen on their rosters - look at Colorado, for instance. Third, Bouchard hasn't superceded Barrie.
Quoting: Dom1422
Barrie on their 3rd pairing at 4.5 mill is not a good use of cap space. They signed Virtanen to a PTO, it didn’t work out, but it tells me they want someone in their top 9/ bottom 6 with size and who can bring some secondary scoring. If they could pickup a middle 6 winger and a cheap bottom pairing D for Barrie they might do it.
Barrie is on the 2nd pairing right now, and the Virtanen PTO (since released) had NOTHING to do with Barrie. Holland likes to create competition in camp so that rookies feel like they have to fight for a roster spot, rather than coming in feeling entitled. And besides, he traded for RW Klim Kostin since then, so no, an offer of a third pairing defenseman + a depth forward isn't going to garner any interest from Edmonton.