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Basically, that's a case of us having to go with the least-worst solution, it's been like that for a while. The ideal way to handle this would be to limit the number of foreign player rights a junior team can own, but right now it's only possible to do foreign limits based on the active roster and contracted players. So a junior team can sign its foreign limit while a guy like this is away on an NHL roster (because he's contracted to the NHL team and not on the junior roster, so effectively invisible to them), and then not have room for him when the NHL team wants to send him down. Either we have to block the move, or force a junior team to release a foreigner. The latter might seem better from the NHL perspective, but if you're playing in the CHL, you're really not going to like it when one of your players gets forcibly released. I'll see if we can come up with a better workaround, but for now the only option is to keep him on the roster.
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