Confirmed with Link: Mark Barberio signs 1-year, 2-way contract

[TheDaysOf 04]

https://twitter.com/BoltProspects

#TBLightning re-sign RFA Mark Barberio to a one year, two-way contract. #SYRCrunch

All done now

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[LightningStrikes]

Let's hope he's able to take the next step!

 

[TheDaysOf 04]

https://twitter.com/Bobby_L

#LIGHTNING re-sign D Mark Barberio. GM Steve Yzerman told me he was comfortable not drafting Seth Jones because of Barberio's potential

whoa Yzerman

 

[Felonious Python]

https://twitter.com/Bobby_L

whoa Yzerman

No pressure or anything now.

 

[ultra63]

Let's hope he's able to take the next step!

Is that the first SFY lie?

 

[Tampa Bay Kiwi]

Well, after that statement there is little hope for my off the board prediction of Slater making the team this season.

 

[dbieon12]

Well, after that statement there is little hope for my off the board prediction of Slater making the team this season.

I wouldn't put it out of reach. An injury or two wouldn't hurt.

 

[Vasilevskiy]

https://twitter.com/Bobby_L

whoa Yzerman

 

[Maelmoor]

https://twitter.com/Bobby_L

whoa Yzerman

..and that's why he got a one-year deal

 

[TheDaysOf 04]

http://blog.syracuse.com/crunch/2013/07/syracuse_crunch_barberio.html#incart_flyout_sports

Barberio had laser eye surgery on Tuesday to lock in his already keen vision and get rid of the occasional irritation caused by contacts, which he has worn for about a decade.

"I woke up this morning, I was able to see for the first time in a long time without contacts or glasses,'' Barberio said.

"I wasn't looking anywhere else. I'm really happy,'' Barberio said. "As long as they would like me, I'd like to stay with them.''

"I look at it very short term,'' he said. "My goal right now is to make sure I have a good summer of training. I just have to make sure I show up in top shape, bring my best so I don't give them a reason to send me down. You start looking at who is there (on the depth chart), so many things can change.

"They've said that I am close. They would like me to succeed. But just because I'm close doesn't mean they are going to hand me a spot.''

Barberio intends on grabbing it instead. He's in his second week of off-ice training with Lightning strength and conditioning coach Mark Lambert, and hopes to hit the ice again at the end of this month. Barberio said he's been working out with fellow organizational players Alex Killorn, Danick Gauthier and P.C. Labrie, among others.

"My body is pretty sore,'' Barberio said. "I've been walking around kind of sluggishly a little now.''

 

[TheDaysOf 04]