[Enoch Root]

If you waive a player during the season, they were on the roster prior to waivers, and once put on waivers and sent down, you only save the $1M

But for the roster deadline, there is no prior roster for the players to be on. If you put them on waivers that day, and submit the initial roster without them, they don't count toward the roster.

Then, once the roster deadline has been submitted, LTIR comes into effect and you can add those players onto the roster.

So in the Lucic case I suggested, you waive him prior to the roster deadline (assuming he agrees), you submit a roster with Eichel and without Lucic, then LTIR comes into effect and you put Eichel on LTIR and add Lucic to the roster.