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There is a mandatory roster freeze between December 19 and December 27, where any claims on waivers are nullified. In the current season, that player rejoins the NHL roster and he must clear waivers again to be assigned to an AHL team. So say that a player was waived and cleared waivers in the previous season, and was not re-called at any point for the remainder of the season. It should be noted that the league resets all waiver transactions at the beginning of the next season's waiver period. The first day of the season which players are subject to waivers is twelve days prior to the start of the regular season, until the last day after the end of the team's season.

Before being eligible the player must clear re-entry waivers. Re-call waivers also cover the rare instance when a player joins a club during the NHL season from a club in Europe.

(Most of us became familiar with this rule when Sean Avery was claimed by the Rangers from Dallas). the team who claims the player is only responsible for half of the player's salary and cap hit for the duration of the contract, and the team who waived the player picks up the other half. (Makes sense given the player re-enters the NHL) The mechancis of the re-entry system work the same as those of waivers, with one difference. These are referred to as re-entry waivers. Players are also subject to waivers if the team wishes to bring someone up from their AHL affiliate to the NHL roster. If nobody claims the player, the player has cleared waivers and the team is free to assign the player to their AHL affiliate. If multiple teams have claimed the player, the team with the highest priority (explained later) gets the player. If one team has submitted a claim during that period, the player's contract is purchased by that team as of the end of the waiver period. A player remains on waivers for 24 hours from the point the waiver transaction is confirmed by the NHL (48 hours if confirmed on a Saturday or a Sunday). The player doesn't officially go on waivers until 12:00 pm EST, so if a team submits a request to place a player on waivers Wednesday afternoon, it is not official until Thursday. When a player is placed on waivers, all 29 other clubs now have an opportunity to submit a claim on that player. So sorry, we can't just fire Blake down to the ECHL.)(I have no idea how the Filatov loan to the KHL is exempt from this.) (The CBA only permits movement to an AHL affiliate. When a team wishes to send a player down to their AHL affiliate, and the player is not waiver exempt (explained later), the player must first clear waivers. There are two main forms of waivers waivers and re-entry waivers. The waiver moves restrict a team's ability to move whomever they want back and forth, and brings a little bit more parity to the league. Technically, this is the primary function of the salary cap and the NHL roster limits, but those alone wouldn't be able to prevent an unlikely loophole a team stockpiling as many talented players as it could on cap-friendly contracts and keeping them in the AHL to shuttle back and forth as needed.Ī team like the Leafs, with all their money, could easily do this (that is, assuming they could convince all the depth players to agree to the contracts) and develop and maintain an incredible depth chart that small-market teams could never hope to match. Waivers are essentially a tool that prevents a team from hoarding NHL talent and stockpiling it on their affiliate rosters.

(Glove tap to Karina for starting this topic, and tracking down Mirtle's original post, and to for their pretty good guide to the waiver rules.) I'm giving waivers it's proper due in order to improve our knowledge of its mechanisms, improve our discussion of potential moves available to NHL GMs, and maybe gain insight about the difficult decisions NHL GMs have to make every day around the people who make up their team's roster. We're already a particularly knowledgable lot around here when it comes to the cap and waviers represent a significant element of NHL cap management. I think that this topic deserves a bit more in-depth discussion, and it doesn't hurt to have a more sophisticated understanding of the rules to help our discussions about transactions involving the Leafs. After a bit of digging, Karina posted a fanshot for a brief overview of the rules governing waiver transactions. In last night's GDT, Karina suggested that we should have a handy reference to the waiver rules. This is a great example of what you guys can do with FanPosts. Editor's Note: Quick thanks to clrkaitken for putting together this great primer on the NHL's waiver rules.