What does cleared waivers in hockey mean?

Answer 1

When a player is placed on waivers by a team, it allows other teams to claim that player and assume his contract. There is a provision called "right of recall" which allows that team who initially put the player on waivers to recall the player. If there is no right of recall and no team claims the player, the player is now able to be demoted to the farm system team of the parent team and paid the minor league salary.

Answer 2

If an NHL player is on a one way contract and the team is attempting to send him to the minors, he must first clear waivers. Waivers is when the other 29 teams get a chance to pick the player up off of waivers and the player then becomes a member of that team. The team lowest in the standings gets first bid, and then the next team in the standings gets the second bid, and so on. If the player clears waivers, it means none of the teams picked him up.

Answer 3

When a team cuts a player he goes on a list what is called "Waivers". Each team has a ranking, each team in order has the right to sign that team (ie. the #1 team on the list has the 1st option to sign the player, if they dont want him/sign him, it goes to #2 on the list) The process does not literally go from one team to the next, however, there is a time limit teams have to claim the player. Once time is up, you will have a team or multiple teams that wants the player. Say the New York Yankees wanted this player but they are #23 on the waiver list. When they sign this player they would use the term "The Player has cleared waivers" -- thus meaning no team ranked #1-#22 wanted this player -- in return the team who signs the player off waivers drops to the end of the list ---- if nobody signs the player by the time deadline -- then the player becomes a free agent and he is '1st come 1st serve' ---- hope this long answer works --- Tigersy2k3

Incorrect. The above answer is the exact opposite of clearing waivers.

The waiver wire is merely a way of transferring players who have no minor league options remaining to the minor leagues. Options: once a player is placed on the 40-man roster his options begin. This player can be freely moved from the minors to the majors, then back to the minors, an infinite number of times during his option years. After that player's option years have expired - typically 3 years after being placed on the 40-man roster, with certain exceptions - then the player can only be moved back to the minors via the waiver wire.

When a player is placed on waivers then all the MLB clubs have 3 days in which to claim said player. Clubs are given preference according to their current record, the team having the worst current record being given preference over teams with better records. At the commencement of the 3-day waiving period, the team with the worst record, assuming they have also claimed the player, is given rights to said player (IOW: if the Yankees, Dodgers, Red Sox, and Astros all try to claim the same player, the team who has the worst record at the commencement of that players waiver period is awarded the rights to said player). The waiving team now has several days to either arrange a trade with the claiming team, pull the player off of waivers and opt to keep him, or release him outright to the claiming team. In the event that the waiving team opts to outright release the player, then the claiming team has no choice but to accept the claimed player and incur any renaming salary costs on his contract.

If no team has opted to claim the player by the end of the 3-day waiver period, then, AND ONLY THEN, is a player considered to have "cleared waivers." Clearing waivers means that the waiving team has successfully passed the player they wish to move through the waiver wire WITHOUT the interference of a claiming team such as the #23 NY Yankees.

Once a player has cleared waivers then his team can decide what to do with him; the team can either keep the player in their minor league system, or they can release him outright into free-agency. In the event the player is released outright, his team will be forced to pay a portion of his remaining contract.

The waiver wire was created initially to keep teams from trading players to the other league; this was before the two leagues ostensibly became one entity. Before a player could be traded from one of the leagues to the other, he had to be placed on waivers, thus giving all the teams in the the waiving team's league a chance to take that player before teams from the opposing league could do so. After the leagues were ostensibly combined into what we now know as the MLB, the Players Union collectively bargained to turn waivers into a protection system for the players. Waivers essentially protects veteran players from being demoted to the minors as either a punitive, or as a cost-saving measure, by their respective clubs. Exposing clubs to the potential loss of the player hampers their desire to frivolously move those players into the minors.

A great example of this is Logan Morrison. Logan was demoted last season by the Marlins as means of punishing him for what the Marlins considered an unprofessional use of his personal twitter account; they basically relegated him to the minors as a way to teach him he that he needed to act more professionally. Fortunately for the Marlins, Morrison still had a year of options left. Had Morrison been out of options, the Marlins would've had to risk losing Morrison to a competing club by passing him through waivers: a hefty price to pay just to attempt to discipline him.

Again, and to summate: clearing waivers means that a player has passed through the waiver wire without having been claimed by any other team. If a player is taken by another team, as suggested in the original answer, then the player is listed as claimed, and, in fact, has NOT cleared waivers. ~ Badlukk13

Answer 4

Baseballs team are legally obligated to pay the salary of every player they have under contract, no matter how badly that player may be doing -- they cannot simply fire him. Teams can, however, place him on "waivers" -- meaning every other team has the opportunity to acquire the player in exchange for paying his salary. If every other team chooses NOT to acquire a player on waivers, he is said to have "cleared waivers," and can then be given an unconditional release. At that point the player can sign with any team for any salary he can negotiate.