Quoting: Shibbal18
For the rest of this season, which they're pretty much already eliminated from playoffs already. They couldn't resign Hanafin without making sacrifices. Markstrom had 1 good season, don't really care about his gsax when he still has a .900 save%
Markstrom is the exact goaltender Buffalo needs.
fantastic goalie at a reasonable cap for only a couple more years.
leave Levi in Rochester for a full season or more to figure it out, by the time he is ready to be a true #1, Markstrom is out or on his way out.
sacrifices should be made to make Buffalo a better team - they will never be truly relevant running this young inexperienced lineup.
will it hurt to lose a guy like Power, absolutely, but for the betterment of the team, it makes sense.
what sacrifices will Adams need to make?
Buffalo already has too many young forwards - JJ, Quinn, Krebs, Benson, Mittelstadt, Cozens, Thompson, Kulich, Ostlund, Savoie, Rosen and god knows who else.
can't play them all, can't let them rot in the minors - time to use some of the past decades 1st rounders and build a winning team.
or they can be the team that will forever be in a "soft rebuild".