They won't send Lewington down because or in spite of his performance. They'll send him down because they can do so without waiver ramifications. You know that. Every team in the league manages its roster that way. Bowey, for example, is on a one-way contract now, so he can't be sent down without passing through waivers, and it is a lead-pipe cinch he would be claimed. So when Niskanen, the 3rd RH shooting defenseman is back, down goes Lewington -- guaranteed. Don't hide this obvious fact to advance your conspiracy theories about the Caps actively avoiding grittier players.
I know all that already.
Which is why you lecture is just a cookie-cutter PR release, which is just utter BULLSHIT, and an excuse for us having a real GM who can find away around that.
No GM worth a damn would NOT keep a player that makes his team far better because of contracts. Would they?
So either this roster is more fucked with bad contracts than you believe it to be, and/or GMBetaMale is an incompetent negotiator, and/or Monumental Entertainment is committed to “keep the band together” and/or Lewington doesn’t fit the faggot woman’s rule hockey that you so love either for entertainment or just because you’re told to.
There’s no fuckin “conspiracy” here. It’s called the ability to identify patterns, formulas, and see things with that most people cannot recognize. Then the ablity to develop strategies to correct these to improve and maximize results, and good enough at it to be well, WELL, paid for it.
You’re better off listening to what I say than trying to fuckin argue with me and agitate me, as you’ve already lost doing that.