Barrie is the type of D man that need a good shutdown or two way defenceman paired with him to excel.
The problem with him was, the Avs team he played on didn't really have a good shutdown D man like Edler to play with and the Laffs are just terrible defensively as a whole.
My sense tell me (Eliotte Friedman style) that JB think's he can be paired with Edler and pushes Myers down to the bottom pair with Fantenberg to give our top 6 a good balance of offence and defence.
I like Stecher as much as the next guy, he's a character dude. But we need more than characters to win the Cup. Depth and scoring wins championships in today's NHL.
Edler - Barrie
Hughes - Tanev
Fantenberg - Myers
This gives us more options on the PP1 and PP2 and if *knocks on wood* Hughes misses any time in the playoffs we have another offensive Dman.