On Wednesday night the Pittsburgh Penguins lost their most tenured player when Marc-Andre Fleury was selected by the Vegas Golden Knights in the 2017 NHL Expansion draft. That stings very much in an emotional way.
But, life moves on and ready or not the team will quickly have to shift into a business outlook for next season and beyond. In professional sports nothing lasts forever and everything turns over sooner or later.
Turning an eye to the future, if there's any consolation it's that the Pens 2017-18 salary cap picture suddenly looks very, very bright.