I would have liked to see MB push to try and get a bit of a steal on a 3-4 year deal. This seems a good AAV, but Lehkohnen is solid at both ends, and if he's basically a good 200ft 3rd line player putting up 35 points, anything under $3M is going to be reasonable even if he never takes a step forward, so I would have liked to see a bet on him maybe producing a little more as the team improves around him, just try and buy the years until he 28 now for something like $2.8M or so. I mean even if he doesn't improve he likely keeps getting raises on that $2.4M contract now anyway.

I like the signing but completely agree with this, at just 2 years he has to be re-signed in the Habs cap-crunch summer of 2021 with Gallagher and Danault and other notables as UFAs, although 2 of them, Petry and Tatar,, may not be resigned at all by that point, so that in and of itself might help bypass that issue...