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Hi Robert! The safest route here seems to be just adding an extra 301 to the https version. This will gather all the links out there. If you remove some of the middle links and that just happen to be a link to your site you'll be losing a possible good link. Google understands well up to 4-5 hops. So I think that you'll be ok with just these 3 hops. To back what i'm saying: Matt Cutts said it in these videos: Can too many redirects from a single URL have a negative effect on crawling? Is there a limit to how many 301 (Permanent) redirects I can do on a site? Hope it helps. Best luck. GR.