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Originally Posted by StrykerSteve
And yet, CBJ took it on, willingly.
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They did that to dump an equally bad Nathan Horton contract.
The Leafs could put Horton on LTIR and clear his cap space (without worrying about how much they actually paid him because they're the Leafs), and the Jackets were at least getting a player who could play for them while they're paying him way too much money. The fact that he'd only play 23 games last year was unknown at the time.