Slowly but surely,
Mark Barberio is making a name for himself patrolling
his hometown Montréal Canadiens' blue line, on the third pair with
Alexei Emelin. His strong, safe play (not unlike
Greg Pateryn's) has relegated both Pateryn and
Jarred Tinordi to watching games from the press box, a fate that might also also be reserved to
Tom Gilbert when he comes back from
his injury.
It's weird to think that in Juniors, he was mostly an offensive-minded defenseman and how well-rounded his game has become. Kind of like
his favourite player growing up, when you think of it... yes, like myself, Barberio was a huge
Andrei Markov fan.
He's sure looking like yet another
Marc Bergevin steal, what with coming over
as a free agent over the summer after being let go by the
Tampa Bay Lightning.
I'll be writing more about him in the coming months, for sure, so I'll leave it at that for now and just showcase him wearing the Bolts' blue (home) uniform, with a nice view of their the 20th Anniversary chest patch:
It's card #345 from
Panini's
2013-14 Select collection (numbered 187/299), a beautiful if very thick card that's all-foil on the front - half silver, half gold - with an on-sticker blue-sharpied autograph and two mentions of this being his rookie card - the yellow/light gold
Rookie word mark underneath the sticker, and the
Dual Rookie Class shield top-left.
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