This week on Habsent Minded, Jared Book is joined by Scott Matla and Namiko Hitotsubashi.

The big story this week was that Shea Weber underwent knee surgery for a torn meniscus and will be out until mid-December. What does it mean for the Canadiens defence heading into the start of the season?

We take a question from a listener who asks whether the Canadiens can be competitive within 2-3 years and take advantage of Carey Price and Weber’s contributions.

We also look at the free agency period and the decisions that were made by Marc Bergevin as well as a bit on the new assistant coach of the Laval Rocket, Alexandre Burrows.

The podcast is on iTunes and Google Play Music (it could take some time for the new episode to get added). Here is the Soundcloud link. You can also download the file to listen to it at your convenience.

(Note: due to an issue with the audio in the initial file, the file was updated at 10:33 AM on Sunday. If you downloaded it before from SoundCloud, please re-download it.)

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