Any RHL team having more than two injured players on its roster may invoke the injured reserve rule and temporarily increase its roster size beyond the usual 18 skaters. The number of players placed on injured reserve may not exceed the actual number of injured players minus two.
     Players who are suspended, sent to the minors or have not yet played in the NHL are not considered injured and cannot be replaced under this rule.
     Players added to the roster to replace players on injured reserve shall be acquired through the normal trade and free agent acquisition procedures. Players on injured reserve may not be used in game lineups.
     When a player on injured reserve plays in his next NHL game, he is no longer eligible to be on injured reserve and his RHL team must remove a player from its roster to make room for him before the start of the next RHL playing period. The player removed from the roster need not be the one acquired to replace him and, if the team prefers, it could cut the injured player himself.
     A team carrying one or more extra players under this rule at the end of the season may continue to carry them until the team’s playoff run ends, at which time it must cut players to get down to the 18-skater limit.
     A team that acquires a player under this rule during the playoffs must immediately release that player following the completion of that team’s playoff run.