Malc
09-08-2010, 08:28 PM
By Warren Henderson
With the hardest working summer of his life behind him, Tyson Barrie was certain he had left nothing to chance.
The Kelowna Rockets rearguard felt ultimately prepared in his bid to try and crack the lineup of the NHL’s Colorado Avalanche.
What he hadn’t planned on was an untimely injury.
The WHL’s defenceman of the year in 2009-10, Barrie is expected to miss three to six weeks of action with a partially torn right hamstring. In turn, he’ll miss all of the Avs rookie camp this weekend in Denver.
Barrie suffered the injury during a team scrimmage on the final day of Rockets training camp last Thursday at Prospera Place.
“Somebody kind of leaned on me and I guess my leg was just over stretched and I just felt a pop, so I knew right there it wasn’t good,” Barrie said.
Colorado’s third choice in the 2009 entry draft, Barrie will head to Denver Friday where the NHL club’s medical staff will do its best to nurse their 19-year-old prospect back to health.
http://www.bclocalnews.com/okanagan_similkameen/kelownacapitalnews/sports/102398614.html
With the hardest working summer of his life behind him, Tyson Barrie was certain he had left nothing to chance.
The Kelowna Rockets rearguard felt ultimately prepared in his bid to try and crack the lineup of the NHL’s Colorado Avalanche.
What he hadn’t planned on was an untimely injury.
The WHL’s defenceman of the year in 2009-10, Barrie is expected to miss three to six weeks of action with a partially torn right hamstring. In turn, he’ll miss all of the Avs rookie camp this weekend in Denver.
Barrie suffered the injury during a team scrimmage on the final day of Rockets training camp last Thursday at Prospera Place.
“Somebody kind of leaned on me and I guess my leg was just over stretched and I just felt a pop, so I knew right there it wasn’t good,” Barrie said.
Colorado’s third choice in the 2009 entry draft, Barrie will head to Denver Friday where the NHL club’s medical staff will do its best to nurse their 19-year-old prospect back to health.
http://www.bclocalnews.com/okanagan_similkameen/kelownacapitalnews/sports/102398614.html