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Not all "cap dumps" are equal. Some actually have value because of how the salary cap works. Weber's contract actually has value to some teams. Arizona specifically because you can pay him very little actual money to take up a lot of cap space. If that's what you want to do. Arizona wants to do that because the league forces them to spend 60M+ in cap every eyar but Arizona doesn't want to actually spend that money because they're sort of broke and aren't trying to win now anyway.
By getting Weber and paying a million bucks, Arizona gets save millions of dollars.
Montreal isn't pressed to move him because they want to sign a free agent or anything. They're rebuilding so there is no pressure for them to do anything. Having to do "cap gymnastics" is the only negative draw back to keeping Weber but its not a problem. Its just a nuisance. If they can move for free they'll do it. If they can get a team to pay them a draft pick or two, that's gravy but they won't pay some team to get rid of him. Or at the very least if its costs them like a 7th rounder, fine but nothing of substantial value.