Shea Weber

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Shea Weber
Date of birth August 14, 1985
place of birth Sicamous , British Columbia , Canada
size 191 cm
Weight 96 kg
position defender
number # 6
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2003 , 2nd round, 49th position
Nashville Predators
Career stations
2001-2002 Sicamous Eagles
2002-2005 Kelowna Rockets
2005-2006 Milwaukee Admirals
2005-2016 Nashville Predators
since 2016 Canadiens de Montréal

Shea Michael Weber (born August 14, 1985 in Sicamous , British Columbia ) is a Canadian ice hockey player . Since June 2016, the defender has been under contract with the Canadiens de Montréal in the National Hockey League , which he has also led as team captain since 2018 . Previously, he had been active for over ten years for the Nashville Predators , where he also held the captaincy for five years. Weber won Olympic gold with the Canadian national team in 2010 and 2014 and became world champion in 2007 .

Career

Beginnings in the junior sector

Shea Weber started his career with the Sicamous Eagles in the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League in 2001. After a strong first season, he got an offer from the Kelowna Rockets of the Western Hockey League , which Weber accepted. In the WHL he was particularly noticeable because of his physical strength and his persistent playing style. With 167 penalty minutes, he had the second most in the entire team. That season he also won the championship, the President's Cup , with the Kelowna Rockets . In the 2003 NHL Entry Draft , the defender was selected in the second round in a total of 49th position by the Nashville Predators .

He continued to play for the Kelowna Rockets the following season, but this season he was much more disciplined than in previous years. He received fewer penalties and scored more. The Rockets finished the regular season in first place, whereby Weber was significantly involved, because the defense allowed only 125 goals in 72 games. In the play-offs Weber was the best team-internal scorer with 17 points. In the end, the Rockets were eliminated in the Western Conference final against the Everett Silvertips . This was followed by winning the Memorial Cup in 2004. Weber made it into the tournament's all-star team. The following season he was WHL champion with the Rockets for the second time in three years. He also made it to the West First All-Star team and was elected WHL Playoff MVP in 2005 . He also won the gold medal with Canada at the U20 World Junior Championship.

Promotion to top defender with the Nashville Predators

In the 2005/06 season he played for the first time for the farm team of the Nashville Predators, the Milwaukee Admirals . The Canadian had a strong and disciplined rookie season. He got a lot fewer penalty minutes than in the WHL and was also among the top rookie scorers. That same season he also played for the Nashville Predators. In the end he had two goals and ten points in 28 games. In the 2006/07 season Weber not only set a new personal season record in each of these categories with 17 goals, 23 assists and 40 points, but he was also due to his strong performances as a rookie for the supporting program of the NHL All-Star Game 2007 "Young Stars Game" nominated, in which he ran up in the starting lineup of the Western Conference team.

Weber's third season with the Predators was marked by many injuries, so he suffered a patellar tendon injury in the first game of the season 2007/08 , which forced him to take a six-week break. Shortly after his return, the defender fell out again for a total of eleven games due to a foot injury. In June 2008, the Predators extended his contract for three years and for a total reported salary of $ 13.5 million. In the following season Weber was finally able to establish himself as one of the top defenders in the NHL, so that he was nominated for the 57th National Hockey League All-Star Game and reached fourth place in the election for the best defender in the league.

In the following season Weber caused a sensation when he fisted a fist fight with an opponent in three consecutive games, which underlined his status as a leading player within the Predators team. In the summer of 2010, Weber was named the fifth and youngest team captain in the history of the Nashville Predators. A successful season followed in which Weber was able to lead the team to the Western Conference semifinals , where they ultimately lost to the Vancouver Canucks . The Canadian was then elected to the league's All-Star Team and only had to admit defeat to Nicklas Lidström in the election for the James Norris Memorial Trophy .

In the run-up to the 2011/12 season , Weber and Nashville finally agreed, after lengthy negotiations, to extend his contract by one year, in which he received a salary of $ 7.5 million. When his contract expires after the season, it was announced in July 2012 that the Predators with the Offer sheet of the Philadelphia Flyers will draw level and Weber thus further 14 years before playing for the Predators and a salary of 110 million US $ is obtained. In the 2013/14 season he set a new franchise record for the most points of a defender in a season with 56 points (23 goals + 33 assists). After the 2015/16 season he received the Mark Messier Leadership Award for outstanding leadership skills.

Canadiens de Montréal

In June 2016 Weber was given to Canadiens de Montréal in exchange for PK Subban . This trade is considered one of the most spectacular and controversial in recent NHL history, partly because both players were considered the stars of their respective teams. Weber left the Predators on position 2 of the eternal franchise ranking in terms of completed games (763) and scored goals (166; each behind David Legwand ). In Montréal, Weber continued his previous achievements, but subsequently missed large parts of the 2017/18 season due to a tendon torn in his foot. Shortly before the start of the 2018/19 season, Weber was introduced as the 30th captain in the history of the Canadiens, succeeding Max Pacioretty .

International

Weber ran for the first time at the ice hockey world championship in 2007 for the A team of his home country Canada. In the Canadians' first group game against the German team , he received a game misconduct penalty after an elbow check against the head of Yannic Seidenberg . Because of the seriousness of the fact, he was also suspended for the following three games of the tournament. In the end, however, he became world champion with Team Canada. In 2010, he won at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver the gold medal. In the final, the Canadians prevailed 3-2 after extra time against the United States. Weber was then elected to the tournament's all-star team. In 2014 he became Olympic champion with the Canadian national team. He also represented his home country at the World Cup of Hockey 2016 and won the gold medal there with the team.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2001/02 Kelowna Rockets WHL 5 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2002/03 Kelowna Rockets WHL 70 2 16 18th 167 19th 1 4th 5 26th
2003/04 Kelowna Rockets WHL 60 12 20th 32 126 17th 3 14th 17th 16
2004/05 Kelowna Rockets WHL 55 12 29 41 95 18th 9 8th 17th 25th
2005/06 Milwaukee Admirals AHL 46 12 15th 27 49 14th 6th 5 11 16
2005/06 Nashville Predators NHL 28 2 8th 10 42 4th 2 0 2 8th
2006/07 Nashville Predators NHL 79 17th 23 40 60 5 0 3 3 2
2007/08 Nashville Predators NHL 54 6th 14th 20th 49 6th 1 3 4th 6th
2008/09 Nashville Predators NHL 81 23 30th 53 80 - - - - -
2009/10 Nashville Predators NHL 78 16 27 43 36 6th 2 1 3 4th
2010/11 Nashville Predators NHL 82 16 32 48 56 12 3 2 5 8th
2011/12 Nashville Predators NHL 78 19th 30th 49 46 10 2 1 3 9
2012/13 Nashville Predators NHL 48 4th 19th 28 48 - - - - -
2013/14 Nashville Predators NHL 79 23 33 56 52 - - - - -
2014/15 Nashville Predators NHL 78 15th 30th 45 72 2 0 1 1 2
2015/16 Nashville Predators NHL 78 20th 31 51 27 14th 3 4th 7th 18th
2016/17 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 78 17th 25th 42 38 6th 1 2 3 5
2017/18 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 26th 6th 10 16 14th - - - - -
2018/19 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 58 14th 19th 33 28 - - - - -
WHL overall 190 16 65 81 388 54 13 26th 39 67
NHL overall 925 203 331 534 648 65 14th 17th 31 62

International

Shea Weber at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2005 Canada U20 World Cup 1st place, gold 6th 0 0 0 10
2007 Canada WM 1st place, gold 6th 1 1 2 31
2009 Canada WM 2nd place, silver 9 4th 8th 12 6th
2010 Canada Olympia 1st place, gold 7th 2 4th 6th 2
2014 Canada Olympia 1st place, gold 6th 3 3 6th 0
2016 Canada World cup 1st place, gold 5 0 0 0 0
Juniors overall 6th 0 0 0 10
Men overall 33 10 16 26th 39

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

Commons : Shea Weber  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ usatoday.com Predators' Shea Weber makes All-Star team
  2. ↑ nhl.com Weber named new Nashville captain
  3. ↑ sports.yahoo.com How Corey Perry won the Hart, and other revealing vote totals
  4. ^ Message from predators.nhl.com accessed on July 25, 2012
  5. ^ Predators Acquire PK Subban from Montreal. predators.nhl.com, June 29, 2016, accessed June 29, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Brendan Kelly: What the Puck: A year after the Subban trade, Habs fans remain divided. montrealgazette.com, July 28, 2017, accessed April 18, 2018 .
  7. ^ Associated Press: Weber suspended at hockey world championships. In: espn.com . April 29, 2007, accessed September 5, 2018 .
Logo of the Canadiens de Montréal
Squad of the Canadiens de Montréal in the 2019/20 season

Goalkeeper: Charlie Lindgren  | Carey Price  
Defender: Ben Chiarot  | Cale Fleury  | Christian Folin  | Brett Kulak  | Victor Mete  | Jeff Petry  | Shea Weber  ( C ) 
attacker: Joel Armia  | Paul Byron  ( A ) | Phillip Danault  | Max Domi  | Jonathan Drouin  | Brendan Gallagher  ( A ) | Jesperi Kotkaniemi  | Artturi Lehkonen  | Nick Suzuki  | Tomáš Tatar  | Jordan Weal  
Head coach:  Claude Julien    Assistant coach:  Dominique Ducharme  | Kirk Muller  | Luke Richardson    General Manager:  Marc Bergevin

personal data
SURNAME Weber, Shea
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weber, Shea Michael (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Sicamous , British Columbia