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Originally Posted by opendoor
13.23 as it's written in the final CBA operates exactly as you say it cannot. The exemption only applies when signing a player whom you already owned the rights to. For everyone else waivers are required.
It's quite possible to sign players' on other teams' RFA list which is what Calgary would've been doing. The order of events would've been as follows:
1) Calgary signs O'Reilly who is on another teams' RFA list to an offer sheet.
2) Once Colorado declines to exercise its right of first refusal the contract with Calgary takes effect and he is then transferred to the Flames in return for the compensation spelled out in the CBA.
3) That contract kicking in makes him subject to rule 13.23 which requires waivers, just as is the case with a UFA who signs with an NHL team after playing in Europe the same year.
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But the MOU in effect at the time had different wording than the final CBA.