FA's by numbers

Happy St Patrick's Day. Here's your WTF moment of the day, from the AJC:

Goalie Kari Lehtonen is set to be a restricted free agent, but don't expect any contracts finalized soon.

"There are no talks going on right now," Waddell said. "On our current team there's only one restricted and that's Lehtonen. We have a couple unrestricted guys but right now no talks have gone on with any of our players. I think the [current] situation, I don't see a big need just yet. We have a couple weeks here to focus on winning hockey games."

Wait... what? For one Brett Sterling is also RFA, and a couple? A couple UFA's? I thought a couple meant 2-3. We're rocking the UFAs come 1 July, see below.

Player	Nationality	Age	Team	Pos	08 FA Status	07-08 Cap #	07-08 Salary
Boulton, Eric		30	ATL	L	UFA	0.525	0.525
Brathwaite, Fred		34	ATL	G	UFA	0.500	0.500
Doell, Kevin		27	ATL	C	UFA	0.475	0.475
Haydar, Darren		27	ATL	R	UFA	0.463	0.475
Hedberg, Johan		34	ATL	G	UFA	1.000	1.150
Holik, Bobby		36	ATL	C	UFA	4.250	4.250
Krog, Jason		31	ATL	C	UFA	0.475	0.500
Kwiatkowski, Joel		30	ATL	D	UFA	0.600	0.600
Lehtonen, Kari		23	ATL	G	RFA	1.850	2.200
McCarthy, Steve		26	ATL	D	UFA	0.725	0.725
Recchi, Mark		37	ATL	R	UFA	1.000	1.750
Rucchin, Steve*		35	ATL	C	UFA	2.125	2.400
Sterling, Brett		23	ATL	L	RFA	0.585	0.585

You know, if we'd won even 25% of the past 14 games, I could see how focusing on winning games would be a priority over the FAs on your roster. However, the team has won 2 in 14, which isn't even 20%, and there's 8 more to go, with no shot whatsoever at the playoffs. Why bother? I mean yeah, it'd be nice to see them win the last few, maybe salvage their pride, work towards a raise for next season, but 07-08 is a wash for the Thrashers. I was going to analyse the numbers vs the cap and the players already signed for next season, but you know what? I kind of don't care anymore. I mean, I care, but I don't care at the same time. There's the numbers, you can do your own analysis.