TAMPA, FL – APRIL 16: Dale Weise #22 of the Montreal Canadiens celebrates his game-winning goal in overtime with P.K. Subban #76 against the Tampa Bay Lightning in Game One of the First Round of the 2014 Stanley Cup Playoffs at the Tampa Bay Times Forum on April 16, 2014 in Tampa, Florida. (Photo by Mike Carlson/Getty Images)

Ex-Hab Dale Weise on Subban trade: “I think the team was looking for an excuse”

By this point, the P.K. Subban trade has been discussed to the point where you don’t even want to hear about it anymore (sorry – we’re going to talk about it one more time). The comparisons between Subban and Weber have been on every television show and have littered every online hockey site.

The players have mostly kept quiet about the trade and only one player thus far has come out to say something about it. Ex-Hab and good friend of Subban, Dale Weise lays out what the trade was just about perfectly. It confirms what most people thought was happening anyway.

The comments made by Weise are sweeping and not necessarily based completely on truth. A lot of what he said is about a gut feeling. It is surprising though to see someone inside of that locker room openly talk about how Subban wasn’t a distraction by any means.

Many people want to claim that what Subban does around the public is a facade, but Weise sticks up for him and confirms that he is the same person all of the time.

The most damning remark has to be the part where Weise believes that Subban has been scapegoated. Media members can make comments about that situation all they want. No one is going to have knowledge of the situation unless you are in the locker room and Weise gave everyone the proverbial smoking gun. Subban will continue to be talked about until he retires, that is just the type of player he is, now let’s hope more people learn to love what Subban brings to the game, pure fun.

About Sam Blazer

Sam is a self proclaimed chess prodigy. He once placed seventh in the state of Ohio in Chess when he was in kindergarten. He will rarely if ever mention though that only eight people were entered in this tournament. Contact him at sblaze17@gmail.com

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