Not reasonable Ufa deals

Yup, someone is going to overpay on him. I just hope it isn’t my team that does it. I would like to have him, but he shouldn’t get more than 5M.

at minimum 2 mill short on both saad and schwartz

Not really confirmed but okay.

Where's that Leafs fan that kept telling everyone Hyman was "not available" when they were signing him as UFA?

Saad and Schwartz aren't signing that.

I can free up over 2M by just carrying a 20 man roster instead of 23 man roster. Pre-pandemic I would have agreed, but Saad (while he did score a lot), people will note he played on the high scoring Avs and could push to 5M but I would not pay more than that, 4.25M would be my max on a guy like that. Schwartz is coming off so far a career filled with injuries, and produced at a 40 point pace this season. I'd wager Schwartz will end up getting a 1 or 2 year show-me style contract as nobody is giving him $ & term this offseason. If he wants term, he's getting I'd say 3.5-4M at most. If I give Saad 5M and Schwartz 3.75M, I can cover that on a 20 man roster alone.

I think you are looking at 5 for both.
and going with a 20 man roster is a horrible idea for a whole season.

20 man roster is obviously not ideal, but it basically just means that if there's an injury, the player goes on LTIR. Preferably you have at least 21 man roster in case of day-to-day injuries, and you accrue cap space as the season goes on, but 20 is still manageable. If Schwartz is looking for 5M I likely target a different winger. I could hangle 5Mx3y for Saad, which lines up his UFA with Muzzin, Brodie, Matthews and Nylander. For Schwartz at 5M, I likely look elsewhere at somebody like Foligno/Hyman types. I mean, if its Schwartz at 5M, I'd rather just spend the 6M on Hyman and take a 2M 1B goalie.

yeah the LTIR is tricky cuz you are more likely to deal with small injuries quicker that long term meaning they cannot go on LTIR cus they wont miss 10 games or 24 days....
you will be playing games with missing bodies...