Kubalik needs to get traded for peanuts already so we can call up Crooker again for that 4th line. That line has been ineffective for a while now.
If he made $1 million, he would have been traded already. At $2.5 million, he has negative value. There is no point paying a team to take him on, when we can just juggle the situation for the rest of the season and not pay an asset to get rid of Kubalik.
A 1-dimensional scorer that barely scores is practically useless.
Might have to suck it up and keep him for the season. Trading him and retaining money doesn't help the cap situation at all, and we'll still have a 21 player roster, and no extra forwards. Although, trading him for a 6th round pick and retaining half his salary at least brings in a draft pick, so do it if possible.
At some point, another player will get injured for 10 games, be IR'd and we'll be able to call up MacEwen and someone else.