I was responding to this
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I assume the only reason he's leaving Backlund unprotected is because the team is required to expose 2 forwards who are signed for next season and who meet certain games played requirements.
If you're building the list using today's roster situation (assuming the Flames won't sign someone or otherwise acquire someone who meets that requirement prior to the draft), Backlund and Lucic are the logical players to expose who meet the required criteria.
Presumably, they will sign one of the pending UFA/RFA forwards who meet the games played requirement prior to the draft, which will allow them to protect Backlund, but until they do that, Backlund is most-likely to be exposed.
I'm not sure why he picked Gawdin to be the extra protected player rather than Phillips, but it's likely moot, so he probably just picked a name out of a hat.
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Either way its likely BT had this figured out long ago and nothing has really changed in that regard.