The Career of Shea Weber

He's not retired, but he hasn't played a game in three years.
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[@mattblom3990]

Injured in junior, Shea Weber was sitting in the stands watching a game vs. the Vancouver Giants and asked my sister out on a date. She said no because he was "ugly". I remind her at least once per year since for the last 22 odd years how disappointed I was in her.

[@sepporu]

To be fair, Weber in junior looked like an idiot, his nose was out of place.

[@matejstefansky7659]

@@sepporu but his jawline was in place holy smokes

[@peterolbrisch8970]

How ugly are we talking here? Brad Marchand ugly? Give your sister a break!

[@idiotidiot5821]

Lol

[@yoholmes273]

Your sister was correct..

[@glaxko2]

It hurts me to think that Shea Weber and Carey Price missed out on the Stanley cup. I still haven't gotten over it.

[@charles-etiennetourville]

Same here... 😥😥

[@marcbabineau6001]

the saddest part is they we're nowhere near game shape for the finals, in fact they we're a shadow of themselves.

[@rmyoung87]

@@marcbabineau6001 Especially Price who basically willed them to the SCF in the first place. These guys literally destroyed their bodies for that run.

[@angryassyrian5627]

It still hurts to see them lose in the finals during their last chance at the cup.

[@dnasty312]

They gave *everything* on that run

[@golliday917]

At the time of the recording he is the only defenseman unter contract in Utah. I think that just shows how much they value him.

[@LSA30]

Yeti/Swarm/Mammoth/etc. legend!

[@uday1450]

That Subban Weber deal was such a huge blockbuster trade. Not sure if i can name any other trade which was so huge but invovled only 2 players and nothing else

[@lankancheetah]

Taylor Hall for Adam Larsson might be one done close to same time.

[@sam93931]

yeah that was nuts!

[@donborvio]

My uncle sent me a text about it when it happened and I didn't believe him.

[@thearmourboy3254]

It was chaos on the Preds message boards cause it came out of nowhere.

[@boppityboopy114]

And both teams kinda won the trade as well

[@noahcoomer]

My dad was a season ticket holder for the Nashville Predators from 05-06 to 18-19 season. He would sit behind the home net, so he could watch Weber and Rinne play for two periods. My dad would marvel at Weber's defensive game, and would often tell me look at how he plays without the puck. My first jersey was a gold Weber jersey.

[@veeli1106]

I’m afraid to ask why he gave them up…

[@noahcoomer]

@@veeli1106 Too expensive, we were poor as church mice, and we lived in another state.

[@maxrcrypto]

Sounds amazing

[@Tbiblaine23]

Shea Weber made me a hockey and a Nashville Predators fan. I hope the Preds retire his number

[@slamdunkgator915]

I'm more than certain that his number will be retired. One of the all-time great Predators and one of the first names you think of when you think of great Predators players.

[@nickh4354]

​@@slamdunkgator915 vokoun, rinne, weber, timonen, and Legwand are some of the ones I think of when I think of greats of old nashville, and only rinne and weber probably deserve the number retired

[@lankancheetah]

My Shea Weber memory is the 2014 Olympics: Weber scored the game winning goal vs Latvia to avoid what would’ve been a pretty embarrassing upset for them. Watching those games at like 7 am.

[@RandomPlaceHolderName]

Team Canada had nearly 60 shots iirc. Their keeper was incredible. And Ozolinsh must've played nearly 30mins at age 41.

[@jamesgrandchamp]

Even as an Avs fan, Weber is still to this day one of my favorite D-men of all time. Hard to believe him and Suter use to be a pair!

[@Tbiblaine23]

Him and Josi were a pair for a couple years too. Talk about a loaded top 2

[@ArclightMik]

First Utah player to enter the Hall of Fame 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@Escalotes]

Three players I've written letters to with cards included have ever signed them and returned them to me - Jacob Markstrom, Robert Dirk, and Shea Weber.

[@RLJ96]

Best defenseman in recent history to not have won a Norris. Similar to Luongo never winnin a Vezina.

[@peterchiarelli9712]

Exactly, Shea Weber was underrated his entire career. Tough 2-way defenseman with an absolute cannon of a shot.

[@RandomPlaceHolderName]

I'd pick Pietrangelo over Weber. That said, I think both would have had a Norris or two had they played in bigger markets or with better teams.

[@RLJ96]

@@RandomPlaceHolderName I will take prime Weber over prime Pietrangelo, but they are really close. Weber played higher up in the line up in the 2014 Olympic team and 2016 World Cup than Pietrangelo.

[@jonathanmills7994]

He will always be remembered, not fondly for Red Wings fans, for the Zetterberg face slam in the 2012 playoffs.

[@bartsanders1553]

Datsyuk flooring him(bizarre play😂) makes up for that.

[@MetalCharlo]

Utah legend

[@GizmoBeach]

Should retire his number, same as Hoffman in San Jose 🔥

[@leerotten]

Weber is for sure one of my all time favorite defencemen. Though but not stupid, excellent stickhandling def and leadership mid to later years. Subban was brilliant too but of the two my dream team would definitely had Weber. Loved both amd their careers are over but yeah. Stories I've heard of Weber's leadership... Wow.

[@severed111]

Thanks for honoring Shea, he and Markov on the same defense pair was just as great as Subban and Markov together. He was the heart and soul of the Habs along with Carey Price for a long time, both to the bitter end.

[@RandomPlaceHolderName]

Shame they only played sparingly together in 16-17. Weber spent most of his time with Emelin and Markov with Petry. 17-18 and 18-19, Weber's most frequent pairing was Mete. What a disaster by Julien and Bergy.

[@severed111]

@@RandomPlaceHolderName Can't disagree, but I remember both playing on the PP and sometimes on the PK together, they were not as good as Markov/Souray on the PP, but they were great together when it happened.

[@DrDetfink]

Shea Weber’s slap shot terrified me as a Rangers fan.

[@HomesByPatrick]

Its incredible on how these guys get to about 1000 games + or - and the body just gives out.

[@collbym]

I'll always remember him putting the puck through the net in the olympics, I couldn't believe it when I saw it.

[@_Itchy_Bones_]

As a preds fan I’ll never stop being grateful him and his career He may not have been part of the playoff run but his impact on the team culture was crucial for us to get there

[@connorkenney6938]

One of the biggest travesties of the Montreal Weber era is not resigning Markov. Markov would have been the perfect partner to play on Weber’s left. After they let him walk Montreal never found a suitable partner to play with.

[@connorkenney6938]

Also if you haven’t made one yet, please do a career video of Andre Markov!!!

[@maxrcrypto]

Well said. Markov sadly wasn't appreciated until he was gone.

[@Flaris]

Just crazy how that playoff run just destroyed Weber and Price. Both could have had more years of hockey in them but...ended that way.

[@user-br7sb3wk4h]

Loved watching him play and using him in the NHL games he had a clapper

[@duaneday5474]

Thanks, Shannon

[@by-rc3nl]

Great leader, great captain

[@Bc232klm]

Always traded for him in the NHL games

[@FixableHippo552]

Shea also won two WHL Championships and a Memorial Cup with the Kelowna Rockets in the early 2000's

[@Indybone]

VGK legend

[@thecrankyyankee5114]

Didn’t Weber score a goal in the olympics where the shot was so hard it actually went through the net?

[@thekiatty6953]

Yes! In 2010 in Vancouver!. It wasn't called as a goal immediately and they had to ask for a video review to confirm it hahaha it was awesome

[@oldhab7890]

Shannon you don't make many mistakes but it is a tragic one to make about Weber's last year. The Habs run in the 20-21 playoffs was marked by Weber and Price fighting through crippling injuries (not hyperbole as the next years prove) and willing the team to the finals. The impact of losing Weber and Price was seen the next year. I was a huge Subban fan. I thought trading him ranked with the Roy trade as the most idiotic in Canadiens' history. However once I saw what Weber brought to the team in sheer determination and leadership I knew Montreal won the trade. The level of respect shown to Weber is illustrated in a story about joining the team. Brendan Gallagher was being interviewed about the newcomers to the Habs. The reporter went through the list and Gallagher supplied the nicknames the team gave them. The reporter then asked Gallagher what the team called Weber. "Sir" was his reply.

[@newschooler720]

Him and Price getting indicted to the bchhof in Pentiction this July, you should consider heading up to the interior for it!

[@ryguy6577]

insane trivia that a player who played for exclusively Nashville Predators and Montreal Canadiens was on a contract signed by the Philadelphia Flyers with the payout completed by the Utah Hockey Club

[@quincee3376]

This was my dude!!!

[@kieranperreaultdit-morin9262]

Will we see one final Carey Price career video soon too? Might have to approach it differently because there was like one every year but still lol

[@kimepp2216]

He was an awesome player to watch. Calgary needs a powerplay coach and they have a lot of young dmen to develop. Might be a good fit. Cheers.

[@delta927canadien-francais5]

The Habs-Leafs playoffs was 2021, the Habs beat the Pens in 2020 in the play-ins

[@BSlaughter12]

Exactly, the leafs choked against Columbus in the play in

[@maxrcrypto]

On one hand Subban declined quickly after the trade, and yet Weber was often injured and not as good as in Nashville. The intangibles he brought has to play a role in the team's run to the finals though.

[@TecMatt]

I also have his road white jersey. I got it for Christmas 2015, about 6 months before he got traded 😂

[@AM_TIME_FLY]

can you do a video on longest contract

[@FBI16]

and a bunch of hardest shot winners from the ASG

[@99Stams]

It's an atrocity that EK65 has three Norris trophies and Weber has none. It's disrespectful to the game, and shows how flawed the voting is

[@TylerJohnstonGuitar]

Top 5 scariest shot of all time. In his prime, the goaltenders he faced certainly earned their paychecks.

[@iowasurvivor6616]

Can you do a career video for Brent Seabrook? I know it's been a while since he retired, but I think his career was great. Chicago got a lot of flak for signing him to that huge contract that took him to 37 years old, but it was very much backpay for helping them win three cups.

[@ChrisDeJack]

Montreal did the impossible by knocking out Toronto and Pittburg in the playin round. :D Sorry for nitpicking, great career video has always!

[@isaac502i3]

Go Preds!

[@maxcapacity7022]

Weber may still win a cup as a coach one day. He's got the brains to.

[@thearmourboy3254]

As a Nashville fan I was never a fan of him as Captain, but thats different from his play on the ice. He got screwed out of a Norris when they gave it to Lindstom as a going away preset rather than who was the best Dman that year. In an interview around his retirement David Poile said of all the trades he had done it was one of the few he didn't really like. He said it was purely a business decision. Oddly enough the things I remember are things like when we played the AV's and he wound up for a PP slapper and the entire team headed for each board, none of them were going to stand in front of that thing. It was honestly one of the funniest things I've ever seen. Then there was the beast mode plays where guys would make him mad and he would just man handle them. Zetterberg getting his head slammed into the boards in the playoffs is a good example. He was a great player to watch, but there are always mixed emotions with him. He was a Pred, but lots of us old time fans have that tainted because of the contract situation he put a franchise in that was holding on by a thread at the time.

[@RandomPlaceHolderName]

NSH also went to the finals their first year without him. That has to affect a man's legacy.

[@user-dl3uo3we2z]

I remember hearing from..... _____, how in 2008 as an rfa he was approached hush hush, don't sign your rfa right away....wait for an offer sheet😮

[@TinyKris2787]

Great video IMO the Habs easily won the trade due to the intangibles and leadership that Weber brought. They essentially removed a cancer and polarizing figure from their room and added a natural leader. I’ll always remember Toews being quoted around how happy he was that Weber was leaving the division… completely feared and respected blue liner.

[@shrekdaddy6912]

Shea has 2 more years on his contract lol

[@GizmoBeach]

Time for an extension. 📝

[@jonah.donohue]

This title made me jump

[@alekslee3978]

Anyone else remember when Weber raced a horse for a McDonald’s commercial?

[@Brandon-qd2lb]

Damn what happened to him?? Feel off pretty hard

[@dnasty312]

1:02 SUTER: What about me?

[@michaelmagic988]

weber was drafted in 1979?

[@bigleaguesnipes]

He is one of my favourite Canadians of all time

[@SaveznaRepublikaJugoslavija]

He is still under contract for Utah which I find to be absolutely insane

[@tombraider2500]

When does it become immoral to continue to collect salary when you clearly are not returning to play?

[@ShinyMew76]

Wouldn’t it be funny if he magically returned this coming up season and won a Cup with a team that doesn’t even have a name yet?

[@maxrcrypto]

Anything is possible in hockey. The Blues went from last place to a Cup. The Habs shouldn't evwn have been in the playoffs when they made their run to the finals.

[@ZackGisme]

Year 1 Montreal wins the trade? Preds went to the SCF hahaha. We all had subban and Nashville as the winners in the summer of 2017

[@b1ackm4gic]

I forsee Seider having a very similar career when it's all said and done

[@valitsemllaluokanavahyvaks3556]

Seider probably will hit around 700-750points

[@GizmoBeach]

Hated that trade when it was made. Good for Subban to be part of a Finals but I don’t see where either team benefited; like saying I’m going to paint these oatmeal-colored walls a light grey-tan, or something. Both RH shots, same style of play…must’ve been behind-the-scenes stuff at play.

[@rmyoung87]

Behind the scenes mostly, is a fair assessment. I think Preds wanted someone with less term and PK was not getting along with Patches and others on the team.

[@20thCenturyManTrad]

Weber was way better then Subban defensively. Subban on defense was always an adventure, his points were similar, but Weber was way better defensively.

[@jo5r8753]

Subban was 3 years younger

[@maluorno]

with all that cash he made, i say get a robot foot and bring a cup to Utah

[@SaveznaRepublikaJugoslavija]

Arizona Coyotes legend

[@benoitrobitaille5235]

A Preds, Canadiens, Coyotes and Yetis legend.

[@chrisbelos2834]

his time in montreal was forgetable apart from the 21 playoff run. he was injured half the time and they missed the playoffs twice. it didn't help that they got him for subban either. lots of montreal fans hated the trade from day 1 and to this day even if both are retired now.

[@politicalbandwagon4989]

He did his job as a big stay at home d-man. He was also a huge veteran presence. Subban fell of really quickly after his first year in Nashville

[@dominiccaruso1715]

first

[@dominiccaruso1715]

never mind the sex bot beat me

[@dereksoutar9320]

Mattias Ohlund career video please