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What happens in the league offices on trade-deadline day to make sure everything is on the up and up?
Thanks to our friends in the NHL's communications office, here's what will happen Wednesday when things get crazy.
When two teams agree on a deal, they have to inform the league either by phone or fax of the terms of the deal. The league then schedules a conference call between the two teams to go over the details and finalize the trade. Before the call, the league examines the deal to make sure the teams in question have the salary-cap room to make the deal. When draft picks are involved, league officials check to make sure the team has those picks it is trying to trade.
One of five league officials -- Julie Grand, Jessica Berman, Daniel Ages, Brandon Pridham and Sean McLeod -- then makes the call from the NHL's New York offices. The officials ensure both sides are aware of the contractual obligations to their new assets and that if a player has a no-trade or no-movement clause, he has duly waived it. The league requires written confirmation from the player that he has waived the clause before it will confirm a trade. That confirmation must include a list of teams to which he has agreed to be traded to, if applicable, as it would be in the case of Toronto's Tomas Kaberle.
The trade becomes official after the call, which usually takes between 10 to 30 minutes, depending on the complexity of the deal.
As you know, the deadline is Wednesday at 3 p.m. ET.
Given the potential for the backup of calls as the deadline nears, a deal can be consummated even if the call hasn't taken place before 3 p.m. However, the league must be informed of the specific details of any and all transactions by phone or fax before 3 p.m., else they won't be approved.
To ensure there are no problems (we recall a trade once being nixed between Boston and Toronto when a fax machine jammed in the Maple Leafs' offices and the deal never reached the league offices until after the deadline passed), the league synchronizes all of its clocks and faxes with the Eastern Time Zone clock at
www.time.gov. Teams are aware of this and are suggested to likewise synchronize their own clocks to ensure there are no problems.
Scott Burnside covers the NHL for ESPN.com.
