Shea Weber awarded $7.5 million on 1-year contract

We have at least two more years of Weber in Nashville. Two more years of mending any bruised egos, two more years of talking money, two more years of convincing him to stay. Why throw all that away to trade him when we know we’d never get fair price for him? Seems really silly to start that kind of talk already.

Nobody’s worth that much on a one year deal. I say seperate him from Suter and make him play his butt off. If he wants to be the highest paid D-man in league, he needs to earn it and to my mind he hasn’t earned it yet.

Let the what can we get for Weber talk begin. I’ll start by saying at least Zach Parise

Build around Suter, RInne, and whoever we get for Weber

I mean he is good, but he didn’t take me in the back and give me a handjob good….he is great, but arbitration should have yielded a more reasonable number especially for the music city

We finally reached the floor!!!!! YAAAYYYYY!!! Let’s go salary floor, clap clap clapclapclap

This ruling just made it even more of a ‘go for it’ year than it already felt like.

I think this number is a bit high, but I’m more concerned with long term fallout potential and the Peks/Sutes situation.
I really can’t wait to hear some quotes from Weber and Poile themselves so we can get a better/legit vibe on everything…

Well…I’m not sure what to think, but if the offer was on the table at 7 mil, with the choice of 3-7 years and we couldn’t get Webers agent to accept it…..I’m not too happy.

I want to keep Weber but he can choke on the extra half mil.

There had to be more than a money issue. We may never know…until we trade him away.

My favorite player as a child was Mr Ray Bourque. He played for over twenty years with the same club the Bruins and never won a Cup with them. He was a young player wearing number which was retired during a season while he wore it for Esposito and during the cermony he removed his jersey to reveal his new number 77. He quietly asked when he only had one or two seasons left in his body to be traded to a team that might have a better chance to win the Stanley Cup. The Avalanche were able to accommodate him, won the cup and he retired. Not only did he have a party in Denver but he had one in Boston as well. I have a t shirt that has his number split Bruins/Avalanche style on the back and on the front in tribute. This is the kind of player that current young kids need to emulate not go out for the almighty buck.

Is it possible to watch it online????

This hurts.

•$1,034,249 or below: No compensation
•$1,034,250 – $1,567,043: A 3rd round draft pick.
•$1,567,044 – $3,134,088: A 2nd round draft pick.
•$3,134,089 – $4,701,131: A 1st and 3rd round draft pick.
•$4,701,132 – $6,268,175: A 1st, 2nd, and 3rd round draft pick.
•$6,268,176 – $7,835,219: Two 1st’s, a 2nd and a 3rd round draft pick.
•Over $7,835,219: Four 1st round draft picks.

So if the arbitrator put the value up just $350,000+ whatever adjust there is next year… yeah… $8 million. Wow.

A friend said Poile and Weber are doing a joint call to the press. Weber said he wants to stay. We need to quit listening to rumors. All other hockey fans want to destroy us. We can’t let them. We need to stand behind our captain.

Smart. (And hoping you’re not being sarcastic, or else I feel like an idiot.) I know it’s a show. But it’s a show folks need right now. Needed to happen earlier.

Wow! $7.5 M is crazy good number for Weber (Congratulations to Titan on what must have been a great presentation). The RFA comps don’t justify that much, so Titan must have argued "There are no comps because Shea Weber is the best young defenseman in the NHL, we can demonstrate that, he needs to be paid higher than the comps because he’s better than the comps, etc…" I wonder if the Preds even spent much time prepping for the arbitration hearing, guessing they would settle in the end.

Unfortunately, $7.5 M becomes the new baseline for Weber. Even as part of a long-term deal, he’ll never accept a prime-age year less than $7.5 M and on the open market would start the bidding there and demand more. This loss in arbitration may have just priced Weber out of the Preds budget. I think the Preds unfortunately need to start preparing for life after Weber and considering trade options because it is clear that Titan will actively solicit offer sheets next offseason and may get one the Preds can’t afford to match. At which point they may be looking at 4-5 lower first round picks from the Detroit Red Wings….

Seriously. Huge win for Titan. As unprofessional as it seemed (spelling errors, stupid graphic, etc.), Titan rolled here. And Shea must have known what he was doing when he switched agents.

the only positive I see for the Preds is that their captain is going to have to play his butt off to justify that 7.5M or anything on top of it moving forward

OK…..Poile and Weber have a kum ba ya moment with the press. We all are supposed to feel better….I’m not gonna feel good until Weber signs long term and it appears 7.5 isn’t gonna get the job done. So why should I feel better…..

Unless we can hammer out a deal in the next few weeks, I don’t know how you can allow Weber to go thru the season with a big question mark on his chest with Rinne and Suter watching. As captain. As anything.

And btw, it makes me feel worse for mr Weber to speak to Suter and Rinne…….Part of his contract negotiations needs to be keep your damn hands off our players.

I would much much much rather have a player like Steven Stamkos than Shea Weber if you’re paying a player $7.5 Million. Another thing to think about is how this will affect new jersey sales. Coming out with two new jerseys is a great way to generate a lot of revenue but I think this really hurts those jersey sales. I personally don’t want to buy a new Weber jersey and then see him leave/trade after this year. Most of our long time beloved players are gone (Sully/Dumont) and with Pekka and Suter becoming UFA after this season im not about to spend $170+ on a new jersey with a player im not sure will even be here next season.

Another thing I wonder about is how his teammates are taking this, especially Suter. His partner is getting paid $3 million more than him this season and that has to be in Suters mind the entire season driving him crazy that Weber did all of that for that much money. I think it would be hard as a player, especially the young guys, to look up to their Captain after this. Being the one who screwed up the plan to lock up the big 3, putting the Preds in a bad situation by trading young promising players and not resigning other key players to free up the money to do it, only to have him get a MAJOR payday that leaves the preds with gaps and riding on the hopes that we will magically have a breakout star player this season.

A player like Shea Weber is not one that fills Bridgestone Arena night in and night out, a player like Steven Stamkos does, and if you ask me who I would rather have for $7.5 million a year, Id take Stamkos in the blink of an eye. At this point I hope we trade Weber sometime this season before the trade deadline for a huge scoring forward (any team other than Detroit,) tell Suter he becomes the #1 guy, and look forward to seeing Rads come back and play with the offensive star we would be able to get from a Weber trade. It might not be so hard to resign Pekka if he knows he would finally have some run support.
*Only using Steven Stamkos as an example because he signed for $7.5m/year, Im not saying that should be the guy we look to trade for*

i’ll hang up and listen.

  Even as much of a critic as I often am of this organization, I never thought the re-signing of Weber would get to this point. Probably much blame to around on both sides here, but it’s a failure when a team can’t get their best player to sign long term with them.

  What to do now is the question. As Dirk said, it’s not a problem for the 11/12 season, but it’s a big problem in 12/13. Tend to doubt Weber is going to sign for less than that 7.5M figure in his future negotiations. Not necessary to push the panic button just yet, but I’d certainly put some feelers in to other GM’s about what they may be willing to give up for Webs (especially Lou L. in Jersey!).

  Rotten situation on top of an already bad off-season.

think the preds ownership group just got put on the 11 month clock to find another investor and strengthen the financial standing of the organization