Interesting.
On February 13 the Province reported that Mrazanec had 20 days eligibility left.
"Mazanec is signed to an NHL contract through the end of this season. He also cleared waivers earlier this season and so has 20 NHL roster days of waiver-free eligibility remaining." Patrick Johnston: Tightrope-walking Canucks finally net NHL experience in depth goalie Marek Mazanec
At the time I went to capfriendly, went through all the moves on Mrazanec back to when he last cleared waivers and came up with the same. On seeing your post I went through the transactions again and found the following transactions involving Mazanec in 2018-19, up to the time of the trade:
September 29, 2018 waived
September 29, 2018 to minors
October 18, 2018 to NHL
October 22, 2018 to minors
November 14, 2018 to NHL
November 15, 2018 to minors
January 18, 2019 to NHL
January 23, 2019 to minors
Assuming transactions are done before 5 p.m. Eastern time, you don't have count both the start and end days. So Mazanec had time on the Rangers' roster of 4 days (Oct 18-22) + 1 day (Nov 14-15) + 5 days (Jan 18-23) =10 days.
He's played no NHL games this season and at the time of the trade had only used up 10 days of his 30 days on an NHL roster before again needing waivers. He should have had 20 days left when traded to the Canucks.
After the trade there was one further callup transaction for Mazanec. It was February 13, 2019 and showed as Emergency Loan. I can't explain why capfriendly is showing him as waivers-eligible.
As the Canucks were at the time below two healthy NHL goalies (after sending DiPietro back to Junior from his emergency callup) it makes sense that Mazanec's recall would show as being under emergency conditions, but that shouldn't act to reduce his exemption for waivers under Article 13.5 of the CBA.
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