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OK, enough talk of The Trade. Let’s talk about something else.

Like Shea Weber. Welcome to Montreal, Shea!

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Now I feel better. There has been so much impassioned, bitter, angry discussion of the Canadiens’ controversial decision to exile P.K. Subban to Nashville, that Weber has been almost lost in the shuffle.

It’s actually downright weird. There have been endless pieces looking at Subban from every angle. Was he a problem in the dressing room? Was it his high-profile pledge to the Montreal Children’s Hospital that finally convinced management he was too big for the Canadiens? Is it a good thing that he’s belting out Johnny Cash’s Folsom Prison Blues in Smashville?

Meanwhile Weber, the stud D-man the Habs nabbed in return for Subban, is the forgotten man. Subban of course has been talking to the media non-stop since the trade.

The only clip I heard from Weber was from TSN 1040 radio in Vancouver, where he pulled out all the usual clichés about how thrilling it is to play for a storied franchise like the Canadiens.