If This is the End... - Shea Weber Update

If this is the end, Weber should be known for some extremely important things.

When Weber signed a 14 year 110 million dollar contract with the Philadelphia Flyers it seemingly opened the floodgates for teams to finally pay their RFA dmen. The Nashville Predators eventually matched the offer sheet, which led to one of the biggest trades in years.

It's hard to remember a more polarizing deal in recent history as long as you're willing to ignore Hall for Larsson, but that was for other reasons.

Weber for Subban was seen as a deal that the Habs couldn't win and when Subban and the Predators went to the Cup finals in 2016-2017 it seemed even worse. That was until Weber led the Habs to a finals of his own.

Weber has been a finalist for the trophy 3 times, but never won the award. It's hard to believe with how he played both offensively and defensively Weber was never honoured as the leagues' best dman.

Weber's slapshot is the last of a dying breed. An ode to generations before him. A shot that players thought twice before getting in the way of and even when they did get in the way they thought three times before doing it again.

I'm not sure if Weber will ever be a hall of famer or if he's going to be remembered and talked about for years to come. But what I do know is Shea Weber never took a shift off, played the game the way he wanted it to be played and was never short of accountability.

Someone said to me "it's a shame he couldn't go out on his own terms."

But alas I believe he did.

Weber left his body and soul on the ice and when he left the ice for the last time you could tell the kind of pain he was in.

So thank you Shea Weber for what you did for hockey in Nashville, Montreal and players everywhere.