LongtimeLeafsufferer
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The reason it made sense to Vegas to acquire Weber and trade Dadanov was as you suggest the was in helpful for Vegas cap. (Vegas had no player on performance bonuses)
The reason the trade made sense to Montreal was that Montreal had young players with performance bonuses. Weber's 7.8m would have to included in the cap before the bonuses were added to the cap.
Montreal might have been in the position of being over the cap in some of Weber contract years when bonuses were included which would have decreased the cap allowed by the cap in the following year.
No, it made perfect sense to the Habs and Vegas. Now would Montreal done better by dumping Weber onto Vegas.....maybe.