Let's assume they give Howden 1.5 or 2, and Dorofeyev gets like 800k.
They will have 1.5-2 million they need to spend (dependent on how much Howden gets) by the start of the season on the 14th roster forward, if they're planning on using Lehner for LTIR, or that 1.5-2 million in cap space will be prohibited all season.
Or else we will need a player to start the season on 7 day IR, so they're cap hit counts but we can temporarily call up an extra 24th roster player to eat up as much of that remaining space as possible.
Or they buyout Lehner in the second buyout window.
My guess is they give Howden 2 on a multi-year deal, Dorofeyev 800k on a two year deal and then someone starts the season on IR for a week and they call up two players making 775k to lock in most of the space on day one.
Cotter starts as 13th forward and another Silver Knight gets a shot at 14th until around the trade deadline when they could send someone to Henderson and have that 1.5 million in space to bring in a 3 million forward, half retained.