Penalties: Minor penalty (1-minute) and Misconduct penalty (5-minutes) are considered one penalty each. A Major penalty (2-½ minutes) is considered two penalties.
A player receiving any combination of three (or more) penalties in a game will be ejected from the game. Ejected players are subject to additional disciplinary actions by the league, if their offenses and/or conduct merits a further suspension or expulsion from the league.
No Deliberations: Players that are not designated with a “C” or an “A” are to refrain from debating calls with the Referees and Officials. Referees have been instructed to keep the games moving along, and players who continue to debate the calls are subject to a 1-minute minor penalty or 5-minute misconduct penalty (at the Referee’s discretion and fully backed by league officials).
3-Penalties: Players who receive 3-penalties in the game will be ejected from the game and are not allowed to remain on their team’s bench. Players will also be given a game misconduct penalty on the game sheet to denote a player’s ejection.
If a player receives a minor penalty and a misconduct penalty that results in the offending player incurring 3-penalties (or more), that player will be ejected from the game and a player on the rink (only) must serve the ejected player’s minor penalty (only).
The designated player will be serving the ejected player’s minor penalty (only) and will not remain in the penalty box to serve the additional misconduct penalty, as that penalty does not impact the team’s playing strength on the rink.
5-Minute Misconduct Penalty can be given for the following player actions:
- Players hitting the boards with their stick
- Throwing the stick into the penalty box, bench area, or anywhere on the rink
- Deliberately slamming the bench door
- Slamming their stick against the goalie nets or plexiglass
- Berating the officials
- See the leagues “Zero Tolerance Policy”
Teams will continue to play 5-on-5 with the offending player sitting for 5-minutes, as the 5-minute misconduct penalty is player specific with no impact to the offender’s team playing strength.
The offending player serving a misconduct penalty must wait for a stoppage in play after his penalty expires before he is allowed to return to play.
Player assessed a minor and major penalty: When a player is assessed both a minor and major penalty, the major penalty (2-½ minutes) is served first, followed by serving the minor penalty (1-minute).
Major and minor penalties do not run concurrently. During the major (2-½) minute penalty, the team on the powerplay can score an unlimited number of goals during that (2-½) minute span. The minor penalty (1-minute) will start after the (2-½) minute major has expired.
The offending player must serve both penalties with the (2-½ minutes) major penalty being served (first), followed by the (1-minute) minor penalty. The offending player could sit for a total of (3-½ minutes) unless the opposing team scores a powerplay goal during the (1-minute) minor penalty.
Player assessed a minor and misconduct penalty: When a player is assessed both a minor and misconduct penalty, the minor penalty (1-minute) is served first by a player from the rink and the offending team will play shorthanded for (1-minute).
The player who received both penalties must serve the misconduct penalty (5-minutes) which will not run concurrently along with the minor penalty. The minor penalty (1-minute) will run first, the misconduct penalty (5-minutes) time begins when the minor penalty time ends (via a powerplay goal) or when time expires on the minor penalty
The player serving the misconduct penalty must wait for a whistle and stoppage in play before they are allowed back onto the rink.
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