Makes no sense. Jackets could have kept Horton and held him on the IR for cap relief, but the GM stated that due to the financial implications for the team he would rather be paying salary for a player who can still play rather than be paying dead money for an injured player. Paying Clowe would not help the actual budget for the team.

Horton's contract was not insured. When he got hurt, it was going to require the Jackets organization to pay the full thing. The Jackets-Leafs deal was about us getting out from that situation but the downside is we got Clarkson.

Clowe is insured. The insurance pays most of this. Two different scenarios. So, yes, this does make sense.

Right you are. The Horton deal was a colossal brain fart on managements end. How they felt that cutting corners on a player' contract by not insuring it, especially one that had a visibly devastating injury in the playoffs before was incredibly negligent. Hey everyone makes mistakes but these guys are paid a lot of money to not make those kinds of mistakes. If i were the owner, Jarmo would of been fired after something like that. Not a playoff team AND 23-30+M mistakes like that are not acceptable.

Anyhow Clowe is insured so up to 80% of his contract gets paid from the insurance company. CLB can put his contract in LTIR so they can receive cap relief also. Net result, his cap number is removed from the salary cap and they only pay a small portion of the 4M+ he gets paid (Or whatever his salary is)

This makes a lot of sense. If I'm Jersey, I'd do it. I'M pretty sure they won't lose anyone of real value as a result of not protecting them instead of Hartnell because he has NMC but I'm sure they could make it work.