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Canadiens defenceman Shea Weber will be playing his 900th regular-season NHL game Thursday and what better place to mark the milestone than Nashville, the city where his illustrious career began?

“I hope the guys like him enough that they want to go out there and win,” Canadiens head coach Claude Julien said as he looked forward to Thursday’s game against the Predators (8 p.m., TSN2, RDS, TSN 690 Radio). “Hopefully, they’ll leave it all out there on the ice and it’s a game to remember.”

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Weber spent his first 11 seasons with the Predators, piling up all-star mentions, finishing second in the Norris Trophy voting and serving as the team captain. In 2016, he earned the Mark Messier NHL Leadership Award.

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The presentation was made in Las Vegas a few days before the June 29, 2016, trade that brought Weber to Montreal in return for P.K. Subban, the charismatic defenceman who was popular everywhere in Montreal except in the Canadiens’ dressing room.