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Shea Weber traded straight up for PK Subban


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Huge trades like these are absolutely new thread worthy. Burying them in this monstrosity is a shame.

 

I trust we'll get the relevant content merged herein.  :ph34r:

Montreal traded Subban's rights from age 27 to 31, and aquired Weber's rights from age 31 until 40. Thats messed up.

 

Gotta like it, though, as MTL gets a whole lot worse.

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I trust we'll get the relevant content merged herein.  :ph34r:

 

Gotta like it, though, as MTL gets a whole lot worse.

 

I really liked the idea of Stamkos to MTL. Not that I thought it would happen, but man, Stamkos/Subban/Price as your starters in the three positions is an amazing core to build around. Now? All but dead.

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For a second, when all I saw was Subban traded, and before the Stamkos news broke I was sure that was SS to the Habs. Then I saw Weber as the return... And had to run to the kitchen and get a glass of water so I could do a proper spit-take.

 

Insanity doesn't even begin to cover it...

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Man.

 

This Weber-Subban trade may actually be worse than the Hall-Larsson deal.

Both deals make sense to me. Hall is toxic, an uncoachable team killer, not surprised on the lack of return for him.

 

Weber is a beast, he's a better leader than PK IMO. Good deal for MTL. Curious why NSH had Weber on the block tho. I don't think he gets the respect he deserves in the East.

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This is downright strange, at least the Hall-Larsson makes sense on a basic level with its projected values being blown out of the water. This one make little to no sense to me. 

 

Weber is 30 with 5yrs at $7,857,142 

Subban is 27 with 5yrs at 9mil

 

So Montreal gets older and saves 1.15mil....... wow......

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Both deals make sense to me. Hall is toxic, an uncoachable team killer, not surprised on the lack of return for him.

 

Weber is a beast, he's a better leader than PK IMO. Good deal for MTL. Curious why NSH had Weber on the block tho. I don't think he gets the respect he deserves in the East.

 

I can't claim to know anything about Hall's coach-ability. But I tend to be mistrustful of that sort of talk. And even if EDM had been resigned to getting a single d-man for Hall, I feel like they could've done way (WAY) better than that.

 

As for Weber, I think he used to be a beast. But he's aging and wasn't even the best d-man on his team last year. MTL gave away a younger, more term-controlled, better player. They chose the coach over the player. Deeply stupid.

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Both deals make sense to me. Hall is toxic, an uncoachable team killer, not surprised on the lack of return for him.

 

Weber is a beast, he's a better leader than PK IMO. Good deal for MTL. Curious why NSH had Weber on the block tho. I don't think he gets the respect he deserves in the East.

Yup, just like Seguin was in Boston. Gotta get rid of those type of guys.

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This is downright strange, at least the Hall-Larsson makes sense on a basic level with its projected values being blown out of the water. This one make little to no sense to me. 

 

Weber is 30 with 5yrs at $7,857,142 

Subban is 27 with 5yrs at 9mil

 

So Montreal gets older and saves 1.15mil....... wow......

 

The only sense I can make of it is that Bergeving is backing up his coach, really stupid move.

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This is downright strange, at least the Hall-Larsson makes sense on a basic level with its projected values being blown out of the water. This one make little to no sense to me. 

 

Weber is 30 with 5yrs at $7,857,142 

Subban is 27 with 5yrs at 9mil

 

So Montreal gets older and saves 1.15mil....... wow......

 

 

Error:

 

Weber is signed for 10 more years

Subban has 6 years left.

 

Makes it 12x worse

 

Weber will be 40 at his contract's end

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This is a heckuva deal.

 

Weber is one of the best players of the last generation and one of the best defensemen of all time.  He's a first-ballot HOFer.  He's great on both ends, very tough and a great leader.  He's been in the NHL for 10 non-lockout seasons and played 78 or more games in 8 of them -- and scored 15 goals or more in all 8 (including 20 goals last year).  PK has scored 15 goals exactly once in his 6 non-lockout seasons.

 

Weber is about to turn 31, while PK just turned 27.  PK is unquestionably a better skater than Weber at this point, and probably better carrying the puck.  But don't sleep on Weber's playmaking skills -- in the last 7 non-lockout seasons, Weber had 30 assists or more in 6 of them (and had 27 assists the other time).

 

Weber is also a true horse, playing over 25 min per game each of the last 6 years.

 

For one playoff run, I'd rather have Weber.

 

For the next 2 seasons, I'd rather have Weber.

 

PK's NMC is going live in 2 days, and he's going to make $9MM per year for the next 6 years.  If the Habs organization was concerned about PK's behavior/commitment/leadership/health/other -- it was now or never.

 

I'm not ready to call this a bad move for the Habs.

 

One other point:  I think Weber's contract was signed before the current CBA.  It includes $1MM annual salaries for each of the last 3 seasons -- when he will be turning 38, 39 and 40.  If he retires at 39 -- I think Nashville gets hit with a cap penalty of some kind.  Can anyone confirm?

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one of the best defensemen of all time.

 

Hmm.

 

I remember watching a pretty detailed analysis last season (yes, heavy on the #fancystats) about how Weber just wasn't near what he'd used to be.

 

I just don't credit the "concerns" that MTL could claim to have had with Subban. The guy's a stud and a rock. He's your guy. So you trade him away for a player who's older and not as good? In part so that you can achieve a modest savings?

 

I don't get it.

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This is a heckuva deal.

 

Weber is one of the best players of the last generation and one of the best defensemen of all time.  He's a first-ballot HOFer.  He's great on both ends, very tough and a great leader.  He's been in the NHL for 10 non-lockout seasons and played 78 or more games in 8 of them -- and scored 15 goals or more in all 8 (including 20 goals last year).  PK has scored 15 goals exactly once in his 6 non-lockout seasons.

 

Weber is about to turn 31, while PK just turned 27.  PK is unquestionably a better skater than Weber at this point, and probably better carrying the puck.  But don't sleep on Weber's playmaking skills -- in the last 7 non-lockout seasons, Weber had 30 assists or more in 6 of them (and had 27 assists the other time).

 

Weber is also a true horse, playing over 25 min per game each of the last 6 years.

 

For one playoff run, I'd rather have Weber.

 

For the next 2 seasons, I'd rather have Weber.

 

PK's NMC is going live in 2 days, and he's going to make $9MM per year for the next 6 years.  If the Habs organization was concerned about PK's behavior/commitment/leadership/health/other -- it was now or never.

 

I'm not ready to call this a bad move for the Habs.

 

One other point:  I think Weber's contract was signed before the current CBA.  It includes $1MM annual salaries for each of the last 3 seasons -- when he will be turning 38, 39 and 40.  If he retires at 39 -- I think Nashville gets hit with a cap penalty of some kind.  Can anyone confirm?

 

Yup they do. As will Montreal

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