It's amazing how this guy missed a lot of time and came back guns blazing but holy shit...he didn't have the best game on his 7th game back. Ironically it's likely same group that thinks Galchenyuk needed more time to get in game shape after a knee injury that missed half a season.
Bringing up Weber's playoff statistics are equally as ridiculous. Do people not realize how limited Nashville was back in the day? Weber, who is apparently a stay at home D with a big shot and no pass was leading their team in points on occasion. Do people not realize Nashville went through a rebuild? A lot of their team was young and some guys like Arvidsson were a fraction of themselves.
Now...that's his LAST year...where they hit 2nd round. The year before they hit the 1st round and Weber got injured but this team was even younger and further from their peak. The year before though where Nashville didn't even make playoffs...Weber lead team in points. Forsberg, Turris, Johansen, Arvidsson, Neal, etc... were not yet full time for the predators. A lot of vets only like Fisher, Legwand, Cullen and Gaustad down the middle. There was no Seth Jones, but Josi and Ekholm were very young...only their 2nd season in the league.
That team went through a rebuild that began to show in Weber's final years. They had lost Suter and company and missed playoffs a few seasons only to begin mounting some momentum. Weber was traded at that point.
If people think Nashville with all the players they have now and Weber instead of Subban would've fazed out in round 1 they need to give their head a shake. A weaker...younger team made round 2 and were on the upswing. I cannot say they would've made finals or done worse or better because who knows but acting like Weber held them back is a little ridiculous. They were a budget team and finally began to spend in recent years on younger talent and not vets they could milk.
Weber was buried in Nashville at the time like OEL is buried in PHX and so on.
Bringing up Weber's playoff statistics are equally as ridiculous. Do people not realize how limited Nashville was back in the day? Weber, who is apparently a stay at home D with a big shot and no pass was leading their team in points on occasion. Do people not realize Nashville went through a rebuild? A lot of their team was young and some guys like Arvidsson were a fraction of themselves.
Now...that's his LAST year...where they hit 2nd round. The year before they hit the 1st round and Weber got injured but this team was even younger and further from their peak. The year before though where Nashville didn't even make playoffs...Weber lead team in points. Forsberg, Turris, Johansen, Arvidsson, Neal, etc... were not yet full time for the predators. A lot of vets only like Fisher, Legwand, Cullen and Gaustad down the middle. There was no Seth Jones, but Josi and Ekholm were very young...only their 2nd season in the league.
That team went through a rebuild that began to show in Weber's final years. They had lost Suter and company and missed playoffs a few seasons only to begin mounting some momentum. Weber was traded at that point.
If people think Nashville with all the players they have now and Weber instead of Subban would've fazed out in round 1 they need to give their head a shake. A weaker...younger team made round 2 and were on the upswing. I cannot say they would've made finals or done worse or better because who knows but acting like Weber held them back is a little ridiculous. They were a budget team and finally began to spend in recent years on younger talent and not vets they could milk.
Weber was buried in Nashville at the time like OEL is buried in PHX and so on.
