Quoting: Stan_Bowman
Not sure that’s worth a 1 Star, how about instead of making a throw away statement about the trade you suggest how to make it better.
1) Florida is trying to contend soon, so taking on 5 million of garbage cap hit for the next 6 years would be catastrophic.
2) Seabrook has a full NMC for the next 4 seasons, and he's not going to waive it to go to some bottomfeeder team, and no contending team is going to take him.
3) even IF he does choose to waive, the way that contract is structured is going to scare off teams that might take on bad contracts for assets. teams like ARI, CAR, OTT etc are all about saving actual money, and they can't really do that with this contract. it's way too bonus heavy for them to want to deal with, even when he inevitably goes on LTIR.
4) Even IF he does waive his NMC, and IF they can find a team to take his contract, the cost for Chicago is going to have to be obscene. Any GM worthy of the position is going to make Bowman bleed like a stuck pig. It's probably going to be a guy like Debrincat or Jokiharu AND at least one pick in the first three rounds. Bowman has absolutely no leverage in that situation. He'll either pony up or (more likely) he'll just sit on that awful contract until it expires.
That contract is impossible to move. Maybe things change in 4 years when the NMC becomes an partial NTC and he's likely on LTIR, but that's a long way away.