The name of Shea Weber is less and less present in Montreal. He still has an impact in town (Nick Suzuki talks to him once in a while), but not as much as before.
After all, not only is he no longer playing, but he was traded a few years ago.
We may have seen him again in town on the sidelines of his induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame and his addition to the hockey ring of honor, but let’s say that he is no longer at the heart of the news like before.
Now he spends his time to move from Vegas to Arizona to Salt Lake City with family, in Western Canada.
Since the final against Tampa, he has not been the most involved man in the world of hockey. We know that he has already jumped on the ice with the Golden Knights farm club and that he has done some scouting with Marc Bergevin, but nothing more.
But now this experience with Marc Bergevin, who left the Canadian a few months before Weber, could be repeated, one day, on a slightly more regular basis…
But not with the CH.
According to what Alex Daugherty (a reporter from Nashville) reports, the Preds are open to the possibility of bringing their former captain back to the team one day.
A recruiter in Western Canada recently retired. Here, well…
Obviously, it wouldn’t be tomorrow. Weber is still under contract for a year and a half with the Utah HC, who inherited his contract by purchasing the contracts of the defunct Arizona Coyotes.
But Barry Trotz, who coached Weber for years and is now the Preds’ GM, opened the door in 2026 to Weber taking a role in his organization.
At the end of his contract, if he wants to be part of the organization, we will listen. – Barry Trotz
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Because Weber has spent more time in Nashville and is more familiar with Trotz than Kent Hughes and Jeff Gorton, who traded him after a few months on the job (it was the right thing to do), it is logical to believe that if he works in hockey, it will be with the Preds.
Remember that Pekka Rinne and David Poile are also on the payroll of the Preds. Both will be honored in Nashville along with Weber this week and perhaps that will inspire the former captain to join the club in a little over a year.
