Also, the very next sentence in the CBA's MOU works entirely against Feaster’s take:
"For further clarity, if Club A trades such a Player to Club B and Club B signs the Player to an SPC,
such Player will be exempt from the application of CBA 13.23."
If Feaster was right, and any team could sign a player onto their team's Reserve/RFA list mid-season without them having to clear waivers (and not just the existing rights holder), why include this specific clause about trades? This clause means that if the player could only be signed by the team who holds his rights the Avs could trade O'Reilly and have his new team sign him without that waiver requirement, since he would now be on his new team's Reserve/RFA list. The fact that this provision references trades but NOT offer sheets leads to the conclusion that that offer sheets were not within the exception to the standard waiver rules in the MOU.
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