If you could get lehner for that sign him for 5 years

pretty reasonable for a transition year. Hold onto your cap space, in another year a bunch more falls off and you can be a landing spot for teams looking to get something for assets they would lose in the expansion draft for nothing.

This is the right amount of FA’s to go after. If you go after 5 good players and try to make this team good it’s gonna tun out very bad. Stevie Y knows what he’s doing. Keep rebuilding for a few more years and you’ll have one of the best teams in the league

No way Lehner takes 2 x 5.5 from Detroit, First off he wants term not another short term deal. Secondly he easily gets minimal for 5 x 6 on the open market and probably more. Bertuzzi will get at least 6 x 5,5 Mantha may take a one year deal around 5 to 5.5M and then look to cash in big next season but should the cap remain flat again then who knows.

An underpay for Lehner, as it will probably need to be at least $6.5 million over 5 to 6 years to sign him. And then a gross overpay for Gustafson where he'll probably sign for something around $3 million for 2 to 4 years. Bert gets 5 or 6 years for around the $5.4 million you indicated. Fabbri will sign short term for 2 to 3 years for around $3 million per.

Mantha is the big question mark. Long term (6 or 7 years) is going to be in the neighborhood of just less than $7 million per or $6 million for a one year "prove it" deal.