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Remember when a LOT of people were calling for Bergevins head because he traded Subban for Weber?
He was right. Weber is an absolute horse, leader of that team both on and off the ice, minute muncher and along with Price the face of that franchise. Oh, he is also cheaper.
Meanwhile Subban, on the ice, as become irrelevant/forgotten and has been traded since.
Though both guys have had issues staying healthy, and Weber is a few years older, I know which one I would want on my team at this point...maybe in a couple years it wont look as lopsided but man Weber was a really good trade.
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Remember when a LOT of people were calling for Bergevins head because he traded Subban for Weber?
He was right. Weber is an absolute horse, leader of that team both on and off the ice, minute muncher and along with Price the face of that franchise. Oh, he is also cheaper.
Meanwhile Subban, on the ice, as become irrelevant/forgotten and has been traded since.
Though both guys have had issues staying healthy, and Weber is a few years older, I know which one I would want on my team at this point...maybe in a couple years it wont look as lopsided but man Weber was a really good trade.
Subban bought into his own hype.
He’d be the perfect Oiler.
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Remember when a LOT of people were calling for Bergevins head because he traded Subban for Weber?
He was right. Weber is an absolute horse, leader of that team both on and off the ice, minute muncher and along with Price the face of that franchise. Oh, he is also cheaper.
Meanwhile Subban, on the ice, as become irrelevant/forgotten and has been traded since.
Though both guys have had issues staying healthy, and Weber is a few years older, I know which one I would want on my team at this point...maybe in a couple years it wont look as lopsided but man Weber was a really good trade.
They still have that contract to deal with long term, but yeah Weber is the way better player still.
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The Subban trade was ordered by the Molson family after Subban’s bogus and widely publicized claim that he was donating $10 mil to the Children’s hospital.
That was blatantly untrue. He donated $100000 and committed to help the hospital raise the other $9.9 million.
Then i remembered we were way out in the bush for 5 days over that long weekend.
Bet 2016 transplant99 was more nuanced about this trade.
I'm trying to parse my own 2016 opinion and I can't remember if I thought Subban was overrated but could have gotten more due to being overvalued...or even overrated Subban was still worth more than Weber. But that was my hot take at the time.
The Subban trade was ordered by the Molson family after Subban’s bogus and widely publicized claim that he was donating $10 mil to the Children’s hospital.
That was blatantly untrue. He donated $100000 and committed to help the hospital raise the other $9.9 million.
Is there a source for that? I don't recall seeing that speculation before.
At the time it was reported that the $10M would come in the form of:
"a combination of a personal donation from Subban — in the seven-figure range — as well as funds from the P.K. Subban Foundation and fundraising activities using his name and brand over the next seven years." https://montrealgazette.com/news/loc...drens-hospital
It's been speculated by Friedman, et al. since that the split was because Subban set up this charity initiative as an individual and not with the team, and that the team already had a charitable relationship with a different hospital.
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Is there a source for that? I don't recall seeing that speculation before.
At the time it was reported that the $10M would come in the form of:
"a combination of a personal donation from Subban — in the seven-figure range — as well as funds from the P.K. Subban Foundation and fundraising activities using his name and brand over the next seven years." https://montrealgazette.com/news/loc...drens-hospital
It's been speculated by Friedman, et al. since that the split was because set up this charity initiative as an individual and not with the team, and that the team already had a charitable relationship with a different hospital.
Yes there is a source, that I trust. Can’t reveal it.
The Subban trade was ordered by the Molson family after Subban’s bogus and widely publicized claim that he was donating $10 mil to the Children’s hospital.
That was blatantly untrue. He donated $100000 and committed to help the hospital raise the other $9.9 million.
Source?
CBC's site made the correction and that his foundation would be will be committing to donate that $10 million over 7 years
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