I used to wish we could somehow land the big guy too, and it would have been an absolute treat to watch him play along side Subban. Hands down, they would have made the best defensive pairing in the NHL.Stop it woth the lateral trade. Subban is better, more dynamic and drives the play and is as good or even better defensively than Weber.
I always liked Weber. I used to make trades on EA's NHL to pair him up with Markov. But that was before Subban rose up. So I have no bias against him. Subban is just better.
But swapping him for Subban, it really just showed how out of touch with the reality of the NHL Bergevin is.
Not only that, but within his own team. The idea that the issue with this team was a lack of a bigger more stay at home Dman over Subban, that Weber would be a better for the Habs, showed a completely misunderstanding of the Habs.
At first, I thought it was just BS for the cameras. Just a PR thing. But then we look at how Bergevin continued in the same direction this past summer, letting go of essentially all his puck movers and replacing them with defensive Dmen. The guy actually thought this was the way to build. He is such a clueless GM.