Nope. It's come up in trades before.

If you remember Cody Franson, the leafs got him for free for taking Matthew Lombardi's contract who looked like his career was over for a nasty concussion and was uninsured (bonus he actually came back)

It was also how the leafs got out of Clarkson's contract. The Blue jackets owner didn't want to pay Hortons salary while he was injured so wanted Clarkson who would at least play hockey for similar money (sadly Clarkson soon thereafter injured out. I presume he was insured).

Apparently contracts can be partially insured, fully insured or not insured. Players with bad injury histories are apparently expensive to insure, and as hockey is a physical sport all contracts are fairly expensive to insure (I think I heard the insurance companies want like 10-20% in premiums), so some owners role the dice

Honestly I think this is a fair deal, Tampa is able to shed Johnson's contract. At the cost of a pick, Chicago gets an average 3rd line C. And now Tampa is salary compliment for next year. Until Kucherov is injured all year till the playoffs again.

What was Chicago thinking? They should have gotten a 1st out of this trade.

It's pretty clear Chicago is going for the cup this year. They should have targeted Palat instead of Johnson.

Cool. Hes nowhere being the best GM in all of sports lmao so you are still wrong

Hortons contract wasnt insured because of an injury he had when he was signed as a free agent.(stupid move, but he was a good player in his prime).
Its rare, and it usually involves the fact that the insurance is too pricey, but the player has a lot to offer. If its a fringe player- then adding his minimum contract to a pricey insurance policy... makes it not worth it, better gambles out there.

You have the right to be wrong and completely delusional

LTIR is a handicap, not an asset. We just added a $6.8m cap hit. When that cap hit goes onto LTIR, we get up to $6.8m of cap relief, but we still have the $6.8m cap hit, leaving us with, at best, a net zero gain. However, while our relief cannot exceed $6.8m, it will only be as much as we use, meaning we technically have $0 in cap space and hence do not accrue cap space. So we can't make deadline moves as easily as other teams. For $5m of cap space, cap accrual + a 2nd + Johnson's contributions is a fantastic price to pay. But it's still just that—a price. If Chicago had made taking Seabrook optional, unless BriseBois didn't understand the cap, we would have said no without even giving it a thought.

Let me know when he reaches as many championships as Bill Belichick lmao. Heck, let me know when he can pull a Jim Rutherford and go back to back without going over the cap lmao

He's using the rules and not cheating like BelIcheat, who is Rutherford the GM OF AGAIN NO ONE

The GM of the team that was the first team to go back to back in the cap era again, you are so wrong that its hilarious

Who is he the gm of now? No one fool

so salty lmao. Pens went back to back, and did it even better lmao

And when we're talking about boat parade 3 this time next year tell me how he isn't

I think this boils down to what are you paying for.
They were going to owe Seabs more than JT over the next 3 years and not get anything out of it.
Just a shuffling of cap space here.
The only thing is it doesn't really count against the cap for TB.
Another bowman move that looks really bad in the end.
That's how it will be remembered.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH rightttttttt

Cap circumvention vs. Spygate, Deflategate, Spygate again, Refs

so cheating vs cheating?

Cool. I’ll take the cheater with more championships

We're on the ground floor of this investment. Bill's been there since the 2000s, the Yzerman/Brisebois era is still early. If any fan base could understand, its pens fans. You went through the same feelings as a fan.

What the hell are you talking about? When’s player officially retires, their contract is voided, and they don’t count against the cap and don’t get paid, other than the very, very small handful of now illegal back diving contracts.

And 35 plus multi year contracts where players don't get paid but cap hit remains (cough cough the Mike Smith contract was dumb cough cough)

Betman's office should veto this trade immediately. And Stan should be forced for gifting Tampa $5M in cap space that they couldn't have possibly obtained any other way. The going rate for $5M in cap space used to be a 1st rounder. And TJ has 3 years remaining! Total BS.

LMAO, Chicago, you could’ve extorted assets out of Tampa but no a 2nd is enough

Why Chicago, WHY!?!