It is rare to see Shea Weber appear vulnerable, which is what made this so jarring.
He emerged into the Canadiens’ dressing room at their practice facility in Brossard on March 27, 2018, having undergone a rare surgery on his left foot exactly two weeks earlier. Weber, the Man Mountain, had his left knee propped up on some sort of rolling apparatus, a mini scooter of sorts, and he was pushing himself along with his right foot.
The injury was suffered 173 days earlier, on Oct. 5, 2017, when Weber blocked a Jack Eichel shot with that foot on the opening night of the 2017-18 season. It was diagnosed as a fracture, and Weber brushed it off. He had played on a fractured foot before. Hockey players do it relatively often.
