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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen

That's 12 signed forwards. 2 more with Higgins and Gaudreau for 14 listed.

You could sign Gaudreau to 8.5M even, sign Nakladal to 1.5M, place Bennett and Shinkaruk in AHL to 'start' the season. Place Smid on LTIR, recall the 2 young players and you end up with the roster you see on Generalfanger (without Higgins). If Smid is certain to go on the LTIR, there's no holding up of Nakladal's contract. If he is uncertain, then it makes sense but then you got to question why Nakladal would be waiting to see, pretty bad position if Smid is good to go and he's jobless.