Tyson Barrie hangs up his skates after playing 14 seasons for five different teams.

Tyson Barrie, whose career spanned nearly 900 regular-season and playoff games, featuring stints with high-profile Canadian teams in Toronto, Edmonton and Calgary, announced his retirement from the NHL on Monday. Article content

The 34-year-old offensive defenceman from Victoria, B.C., was a high third-round pick of the Colorado Avalanche in 2009 who came to the Leafs in July of 2019 in a significant trade with forward Alex Kerfoot for centre Nazem Kadri. Article content Article content

But Barrie’s two 50-point-plus seasons with the Avs were never bettered with the aforementioned clubs or in two injury and healthy scratch-shortened seasons with the Nashville Predators.

His 70 games with the Leafs p

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