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Originally Posted by taxbuster
So if I understand sureloss rightly then, it's a convenience to be able to carry an extra person on the roster. But why then make it retroactive? If they had an extra guy up, they'd be offside prior to the IR designation. If they didn't, what does the retroactive status achieve (say, that putting him on IR effective yesterday doesn't)?
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A player put on IR cannot be activated at least 7 days from when he was put on IR.
placing a player retroactively allows you to activate the player much sooner if necessary.
Since Jagr was retroactively put on IR from December 31st, they could activate him tomorrow if they want to, otherwise they would have to wait 7 days from today.
It probably doesn't mean much in Jagr's case because I doubt he is close to coming back, but retroactive placement on IR is just a common thing for NHL teams to do when putting a player on IR.