EDIT: I sound frustrated at you guys in this post. I am not. I am frustrated at morons like that writer who keep spreading these myths. For last like 8 years I can't count how many dozens, maybe even hundreds of times I have posted these rules. It was easy enough for me to look up, if your writing an article at least glance at the damn CBA.
That seems to conflict some with this: "The Tampa Bay Lightning claimed winger Danick Martel off waivers from the Flyers on Saturday. Under NHL rules, the Lightning are now obligated to keep Martel on their NHL roster to open the season. He must spend 30 days or appear in 10 NHL games -- whichever comes sooner -- before he is eligible to be re-waived and assigned to the AHL if he clears. The clock starts ticking on Oct 3."
Lines starting to take form at Flyers camp
Admittedly, I haven't read the CBA section that writer is gathering that from so s/he could be interpreting it wrong.
Urgh that stupid 30 day rule. This writer is VERY misinformed, one of the most persistent stupid myths there is. Albeit they've taken it to new heights of stupidity.
The 30 day rule is not about this at all. The 30 day rule is AFTER a player has cleared waivers. So say Kings waive McDermid. He clears. Then he gets sent down. He can then be moved back and forth from AHL and NHL freely until he either spends 30 days on NHL roster or appears in 10 NHL games (whichever comes first). Once that happens he would then need to clear waivers again to be assigned to AHL. So say McDermid gets recalled on November 3 and plays 3 games until November 21 and Kings send him down. He wouldn't need waivers to be sent down again. But next time he is recalled his "waiver clock" would start again at 18 days and 3 games. So 12 more days or 7 more NHL games played this year at any point and he would need waivers again to be sent back down.
Here is the 30 day rule from CBA.
The "Playing Season Waiver Period" shall begin on the twelfth (12th) day prior to the start of the Regular Season and end on the day following the last day of a Club's Playing Season. Subject to the provisions of this Article, the rights to the services of a Player may be Loaned to a club of another league, upon fulfillment of the following conditions, except when elsewhere expressly prohibited: (a) Regular Waivers were requested and cleared during the Playing Season Waiver Period; and (b) the Player has not played in ten (10) or more NHL Games cumulative since Regular Waivers on him were last cleared, and more than thirty (30) days cumulative on an NHL roster have not passed since Regular Waivers on him were last cleared.
Exempt players are talked about later on. I really don't know where this HAS to be on the roster thing started as there is NOTHING in the CBA that dictates you must keep a player on your roster. As it's impossible to prove a negative without just telling you to read the entire CBA take my word for it, no team is forced to keep a player on their roster barring a No Movement Clause.
I wasn't aware of those rules. I just thought that if the claiming team tried to send him down to the AHL that the original team would get first crack at claiming him and sending him to the AHL. These rules make it even less likely that any of the Kings fringe guys are claimed on waivers. Any team that is making a claim has to be pretty sure the guy is a clear improvement on what they already have.
Another persistent myth. The original team does NOT have first crack at the player. Once a player is rewaived he is on waivers again in the same normal fashion. The ONLY difference for the original team is that if they are the only team to put in a claim they may assign him to AHL without waivers again (that includes teams behind them in the waiver priority). However it is the same process as normal.
13.22 When a Club claims a Player on Regular or Unconditional Waivers, and, subsequently, in the same season it requests Waivers on the same Player and the original owning Club is the successful and only Club making a Waiver claim, then the original owning Club shall be entitled to Loan such Player to a club in another league within thirty days without further Waivers being asked; provided that such Player has not participated in ten or more NHL Games (cumulative) and remained on an NHL roster more than thirty days (cumulative) following such successful claim.
