Quoting: CheechYou
It doesn't, but it's been heavily rumored that MTL's trying to find a trade for a team to take on his contract, which, to me, is somewhat surprising since competitive or not, MTL is a sellout every night kind of team, but hey, that's the word that's been going around for a good while now. And it'd be pocket change for Hasso Plattner if it means being the difference to making his SJ team competitive (and thus financially a plus for him instead of a minus) again.
Maybe I misinterpreted it wrong. Maybe you did. I don't know but from what I understand, the only reason the Habs will move Weber is to make the team's capologists (John Sedgewick) job easier. There is no negative effect to keeping Weber for the Habs other than they have to deal with LTIR and all that BS which unless you are doing the "Kucherov" for the playoffs, is kind of pointless extra work.
There is more incentive for other teams to acquire Weber than there is for the Habs to get rid of Weber. Now its not a crazy benefit but there is a benefit and thus Weber has some value to other teams. Taking him on doesn't really help the habs all that much. It probably makes more sense for the Habs to keep Weber, buyout Vlasic and use Weber to go above the cap ceiling with LTIR than it does to trade him to SJ in this scenario.
Either way though, Vlasic is probably the least valuable asset in the league right now. More so than Price IMHO. Mainly because he doesn't get injured enough for a team to at least use him on LTIR. At least when Price is playing in the playoffs, he's winning games for the Habs. When he's hurt, he's on LTIR so we get cap benefit. Vlasic can't really make the team better right now and doesn't have enough injuries to keep him out of the lineup for long periods of time which IMO is the worst combination for a player to have.
Long story short, just buy out Vlasic. Its either that or play him and hope he rebounds his career.