Why does Tampa Bay do this when they can give that pick Seattle to take Johnson and get that out of the way

bc they are doing it to Montreal. and montreal would want less than what seattle will want IMO

I'm honestly scared to give Johnson to Montreal. There team is really good and he has shown recently that as a center he is much better than a winger, so as a 3C he should be perfect other than the fact he's overpaid

Then we'd loose someone else we may not want to then.

like? another bad contact like Gourde or Killorn? nothing that cant be replaced

Gourde is great. if you say different you don't watch tampa

i do but his contract is too muhc. gourde is good i sgree not 5.1M good

Yeah well he's 4.5M good so it's not that far off

Killorn isn't a bad contract. A 20+ goal power forward whose extremely responsible defensively plays both pp&pk and was one of the players Cooper wanted on the ice to secure the Cup at the end of game 6 for 4 mil we'll keep Killer