Mete unsure if he’ll be in Montreal or London following world juniors

LONDON, ONT. Victor Mete was told the long-term prognosis of Shea Weber’s bad foot is big news not just in Montreal — but London, too. He laughed.

The star defenceman knows Canada’s world junior exhibition pit-stop against the Czechs on Wednesday will either mark his final Budweiser Gardens appearance if the Habs recall him in January — or the first of many if he returns to the Knights for the rest of the OHL season.

The fate of two storied hockey organizations may well rest on Weber’s health.

“I have no idea,” Mete said Tuesday. “I’m going day by day and we’ll see what happens when the tournament’s over. I didn’t know what to expect, either, about this — if I was going to be sent here (to join Canada) or not.

“When all the (Canadiens) D started coming back one by one, and then were there all at once, I thought this might have happened.”

He has already beaten long odds as a teenage fourth-rounder to play 27 games on the blue-line of a hockey club that operates under the world’s biggest microscope. His three years as a Knight shocked him in terms of how ready he was to play for Montreal.

“Everything we do was pretty much identical to what I did in London,” he said, “from video to the way you prepare, the practices and the intensity. What they do in London is really good if you can compare it to an NHL club like that.”

There was just one player picked after Mete in the 2016 NHL draft to appear in big-league games this season — a sixth-round Swedish forward named Jesper Bratt, who was supposed to be a Knights teammate if he didn’t crack the Devils roster.

“I’ve talked to a lot of the guys on the Knights,” Mete said.

“I try to watch a lot of their games on the OHL Live (app) but I haven’t checked out the standings much and what’s going on in the league.”

He’s getting the lowdown now from old friends Robert Thomas and Alex Formenton, still with the Knights and now Canadian world junior teammates.

Mete’s mom, Mary, who moved in with him while he was on Habs duty, has returned home to the Toronto area — for now.

The direction they go in the new year is still to be determined.

For now, though, after this one evening in London, it might be goodbye. Again.

Then again, it could be “See you real soon.”