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Originally Posted by fleury
Side note: The Score app posted about the Leafs, "However, the team can place Nathan Horton and his $5.3M cap hit on long-term injured reserve to free up space."
1) I don't know how that works
2) Can't believe Nathan Horton is still on the books
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An interesting bit on the Horton contract is that it was uninsured, so the team is on he hook for paying him while he’s injured. The Blue Jackets took Clarkson off the Leafs so they could at least have somebody playing that they were paying (but wouldn’t have to pay if he were injured) and didn’t need LTIR relief, while the Leafs were fine with paying Horton so long as they could get the cap relief.
It may have been the first pure cap trade where neither team wanted the player they acquired to actually play for them.