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Maybe I need to give my reason for why waivers normally do not open until after free agency has begun. It is like that so that GMs can not bury players in the minors to increase cap space before free agency. That is currently my worry if we open waivers right away, I like to give teams that prepared for free agency by picking not who to re-sign or by making room via trades the advantage instead of one GM burying 15-20m (minor league cap) in 2012-13 contracts before free agency then calling up the players again in waiver free period if they didn't get the players they were targeting. For example: Say Chara making $7.0m is sent down and someone targets getting 2 defensemen for around $3.5m but are unsuccessful. They then don't succeed and at waiver free just call Chara back up and push the market in free agency.Currently this is the set up:Trading Opens - May 1st, 2012 @ 8:00amTrading Closes - May 31st, 2012 @ 11:59pmEntry Draft (2012) - June 30th, 2012 @ 4:00pmOffseason Free Agency Begins - July 15th, 2012 @ 8:00amTrading Opens - July 22nd, 2012 @ 8:00amWaivers Open - July 24th, 2012 @ 8:00amSo waivers currently open 9 days after free agency opens, allowing teams that have saved cap to have first strike on free agents because they have planned ahead.