Your 4 players you used as an example were Jokinen, Iginla, Doan, and Jagr.
Pouliot was bought out of a $4M AAV contract same as Jokinen and signed for 1 year at $1.15M. I don't see why Jokinen wouldn't sign a 1 year deal for about the same. While other buy-outs obviously were picking their landing spots to an extent Cammalleri, Sharp (bonus puts him upto $1M based on games played), and Hartnell all signed for basically $1M.
Jagr has openly stated he isn't getting calls and their is basically no interest in him. There hasn't been any rumored interest in Doan and while I haven't heard anything about Iginla I would have to imagine the same is true for him since he is the worst of these 4 names.
I'm sure not everyone is ready for bargain deals such as Fransson who apparently has multiple teams interested in him, but the guys you mentioned are all ready for bargain deals.
I actually like our odds at bringing in someone like these players (for bad and good). That thread on the mains about Jagr was crazy. So apparently Tallon is quoted as being broken up about moving on from Jagr, but the decision was made because he wanted the team to be faster at skating. I've seen quotes like that from time to time from GMs and it seems like the new religion. If you're willing to walk from Jagr, who seems to have a huge preference to remain in Florida, it's just odd imo. I even checked, and Jagr had good 5 on 5 production last year, and wasn't even particularly sheltered either. He was mostly on the top line and seemed to do well, although I didn't watch their games. But it seems most GMs now want that skating speed.
But Chia obviously doesn't follow this train of thought. That seems to go back even to the Boston days, which were teams about puck possession and physical play rather than skating, not that they were all slugs. But on the Oilers, he brought in Maroon before he slimmed down, Reinhart, Lucic, has time for Gryba, and swapped Hall for Larsson. Speed isn't paramount with him it seems. He'd definitely have time for Jagr, Iginla, Franson, Doan, and probably Jokinen too I'd bet.