Reading between the lines on Lehner it seems like Vegas had the legal right to terminate his deal and clear his cap hit, but the team and league were worried Lehner would do something drastic if that happened. So the compromise was to remove him from the cap, but Lehner still gets his money. Kind of unfair to the rest of the league, but better than the possible alternative.
A little unfair but let's be real they will be in LTIR soon anyways.
Lehner didn't meet his obligations so Vegas was like let's not pay.
Agent is like come on Vegas you know my guy is mentally unwell.
Betttman is then like listen we can win win Here. Pay him Vegas but off the books.
It sucks but it was the right thing to do.
Now Johansen situation is interesting. It's not a secret NHL players play through injuries and most likely once he realized o I am not on a playoff team maybe I should stop playing with injuries. I do believe the surgery and injury is real.
I do wonder how this will be dealt with. With the lack of information we have its tough to know what to do with this.