waivers could easily be negotiated, just lean on garth snow to claim jagr for the isles, then pull a trade sending the isles a little bonus (say, one of edmontons 79 young center prospects) for their trouble.

edm and nyi have a history of pulling useful little trades together, didn’t allan rourke get moved across for edm’s 3rd rounder in ‘07 so they could do the penner offer sheet?

Posted by fredster on 02/10/09 at 01:58 PM ET

let us count the teams that would claim him before the oilers.  Although, the Oilers could theoretically sign him for a very large number making it implausible and slightly impossible that he would be claimed.  Other than that…

Posted by bsalamon on 02/10/09 at 02:12 PM ET

waivers could easily be negotiated

I don’t think that would work. If I’m reading this CBA passage right, he’d have to clear waivers prior to any trade:

13.23 In the event a professional or former professional Player plays in a league outside North America after the start of the NHL Regular Season, other than on Loan from his Club, he may thereafter play in the NHL during that Playing Season (including Playoffs) only if he has first either cleared or been obtained via Waivers. For the balance of the Playing Season, any such Player who has been obtained via Waivers may be Traded or Loaned only after again clearing Waivers or through Waiver claim.

Posted by shep on 02/10/09 at 02:16 PM ET

From a comment in the other post:
the waver rule really depends on what Jagr’s contract says now, and how the KHL lets him go.  If Jagr’s KHL team buys him out or releases him from his contract out right he would be a free agent and wouldn’t have to go through wavers.  The only reason Jagr would have to go through wavers is if the Oilers were to pick up his existing contract in the KHL.  That is what “on loan” means...

Posted by Darren from Edmonton on 02/10/09 at 02:24 PM ET

the waver rule really depends on what Jagr’s contract says now, and how the KHL lets him go.

The CBA doesn’t say anything about the contract in the other league, only if he plays in another league. And the ‘on loan’ bit is from an NHL club, ie if Jagr had been under contract to the Oilers already before playing in the KHL. I gather this would apply to Radulov should he return, even though he was ‘loaned’ against his team’s wishes.

Posted by shep on 02/10/09 at 02:33 PM ET

So everyone is more interested in talking about the waiver aspect of it, instead of the “This makes no sense ot EDM whatsoever” aspect of it?

What’s up with that?  Bringing in Jagr isn’t going to address EDM’s problems, which include no real good veteran defensive defensemen, few good defensive forwards, and subpar goaltending.  I don’t see how Jagr would affect any of those…

Posted by Primis on 02/10/09 at 03:24 PM ET

Whatever the timeline, truthiness, or waiver issues surrounding this, the bigger thought should be paired with Emery and his failure to report to his KHL team: the League seems far more troubled than the NHL, and it may have lost its lustre to the point where reverse migration might be the trend of the summer. They’ll offer dollars above the NHL to some once again, but especially the story of Emery losing roughly 33% of his pay because of ‘funny’ exchange calculations is sure to sour more than a few on the prospect.

Posted by SENShobo from Waterloo, ON on 02/10/09 at 04:04 PM ET

Woohoo… then the NHL teams can get all those mediocre players back on their bottom two lines!  Good times!

Seriously though, the Jagr thing makes total sense for Edmonton… especially after you proceed forward with the understanding that the management there has absolutely no idea what the hell they are going to do from one day to the next.  I wouldn’t be remotely surprised to see them claim Avery on re-entry waivers before the Rangers could… or have them try and get Emery… or try and get Gretzky to center their second line for old times sake…

Posted by HockeyinHD on 02/11/09 at 12:45 AM ET