Shea Weber was an absolute warrior

Shea Weber will cap off an impressive professional hockey career on Monday night when seven-time All-Star defenseman is inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.

The 2003 second-round pick was one of the league’s top defenders during his 16-year career, firing his patented slap shot from the point and consistently finishing among the league’s top scoring blueliners for more than a decade. Throw in his unmistakeable size and physical play, and you couldn’t produce a more perfect old-school defenseman than Weber.

Spending the first 11 seasons of his career with the Nashville Predators, six of which he was captain, he was traded to the Montreal Canadiens in a blockbuster move that sent Weber to Les Habitants and P.K. Subban to Nashville. The deal paid off for both teams, with Subban helping the Preds reach a Stanley Cup Final and Weber dragging an underdog Montreal squad on a miracle run to the Final in 2021.

On Monday’s episode of Daily Faceoff LIVE, former NHL defenseman Colby Cohen and Tyler Yaremchuk discuss Weber’s Hall of Fame resume and his success on the international stage.

Tyler Yaremchuk: What stands out to me is that he’s an ultimate warrior, and lots of memories of him representing Team Canada throughout his career. Again, when you think of warrior, you think of the playoff runs he went on with the Nashville Predators, as well as the one with the Montreal Canadiens in 2021.

No Stanley Cup for Shea Weber, but one of the best defenseman that defined that generation.

Colby Cohen: He still has an active contract in the National Hockey League, I just want to point that out.

Tyler Yaremchuk: It’s weird, he still looks like he could play. I saw him in Montreal in the hallway talking to Lane Hutson, and if you had to make me guess which one of those two was going to be in the lineup, I would have said Weber.

You can watch the full segment and the rest of the episode here…