I still havent seen any evidence to suggest that Dupuis, Scuds, and Adams aren't going to be in the lineup.
RJ wants another vet defensemen. Why ship out the oldest one of all?
Adams is signed. He's not been traded or bought out yet.
Dupuis should of went in the draft for a low round pick but didn't. I don't see us getting back a roster player for him and his contract. And we are still missing 2 top 6 wings and we can probably only get 1 from free agency.
Sutter's rights werent dealt so I guess we are signing him for 3.5ish, ties up cap room for wingers.
Likely that Dupuis will start top 6. Adams on that 4th line and Scuds in the 3rd pairing.
Read somewhere that Rutherford's looking for 1 top 6 forward and 2 fourth liners tomorrow. If that's the case, Adams isn't in his plans. It also doesn't bode well that Rutherford ripped "4th liners who are double digit minuses" in his third or fourth sentence as GM.
Regarding Scuderi, the sheer volume of D Botterill suggested will get a chance (and the org's general lack of fear about their cap situation) indicates, to me at least, it's likely they've written him off. If not, he's just going to get benched. Everything Johnston says he doesn't like D to do (bank it off the glass, etc) are things Scuds does. Everything he wants D to do, Scuds doesn't (area passes, tape to tape, skating with the puck, activating).
More that I think about it, #9 is probably in s situation where, like Bennett on Malkin's right, he would need to fail out of a spot on Sutter's right. Moss makes sense as a target when you think of it that way. DM's not better than Dupuis has been, but neither is he a 4th line player, strictly speaking. I think Moss is an insurance policy for Pascal's knee.