Would I be right in saying we now have 10 imports signed, with 4 to go.??
Yes. Although I wouldn't be massively shocked if we started the season with a spare import.
The fact that Lord mentioned Batch being used as a forward suggests to me that he's either planning on bringing back both Hothams or if they opt not to return he'll be trying to bring in too further defencemen. So we have to wait and see if Paris is a replacement for one of them or a replacement for Batch.
At the moment, I like the idea of him being a replacement for Batch. A tough, physical defenceman but with more offence than Batch. Depending on whether they both come back ore we replace like for like that gives us a high-scoring defenceman on each D pairing.
It then means that Batch is effectively Chris Jones' replacement on the 4th line and with Craig Moore plus an import that's a very strong 4th line.
Most fans seem to be assuming that Faryna will play alongside Benti and Martin with Asselin re-signing but not yet announced to play alongside Ulmer and Haddad again.
Which could leave us with:
Mo - Myers - Lord
Batch - Import - Moore
My personal opinion is that 4th line centre will be a speedy, hard-hitting forward in the Hervato mold which I think we missed last season. But that would mean we're missing an out and out enforcer. And they tend to be wingers.
Which makes me think that we'll sign a 15 import like we did last season and then Mo and Lord will rotate when everyone is fit.