In hockey there are quite a few rules and regulations that will get you a penalty if your not carful. These are a few every one should know and some the Referees should know because they never call them right.
In hockey there is Five different Kinds of penalties, minor, double minor, major, misconduct, and game misconduct. These are listed in least severe to the most severe of penalties your players can get. Now let me give you a few examples of each.
Minor Penalties - These penalties will draw a two minute penalty most of all of the time. Some examples would be: Cross-checking, high-sticking, holding, holding the stick, elbowing, hooking, interference, roughing, slashing, delay of game, and tripping. These penalties expire when time runs out or a goal is scored by the opposite team.
- Cross- checking - This is when a player holds his stick in both hands crosswize to his body and hits the opposing player with it.
- High sticking - The touching of a player with the a Hockey stick above the shoulder.
- Holding - Player holds the Jersey, skate, leg, arm of the other player to prevent him from playing in the game.
- holding the stick - Player holding the opposing players stick to keep them from playing in the game.
- elbowing - The intentional use of your elbow to hit a player.
- hooking - Using a stick as a hook to slow an opponent
- Interference - Impeding an opponent who does not have the puck, or impeding any player from the bench.
- Roughing - Pushing and shoving after the whistle has been blown or when a player checks an opponent with his hands in his opponents face
- Slashing - Swinging of a stick at an opponent, no contact is required for this call.
- Delay of game - intentionally sending the puck over the glass to avoid a situation.
- Tripping - The use of a stick, glove, or skate to trip a player in order to prevent the player from playing in the game.
Double minors - These are called when a player is injured by a minor penalty such as slashing. These penalties mean that the offender will be placed in the penalty box for two consecutive minors, or for four minutes. These are not called often however when they are they place the offending team at a huge disadvantage. These penalties expire when the time runs out or a goal is scored the first of the two minors will go away and the second will start.
Major penalty - These penalties draw a five minute penalty box sitting by the offenders. These are usually called most every game in the form of a player fight. These penalties only expire when the time runs out and not when the opposite team scores. Other infractions include: butt-ending, charging, spearing, and boarding. Getting three in one game will be an automatic Game Misconduct.
- Butt-ending - Jabbing an opponent with the end of the shaft of the stick. It carries an automatic major penalty and game misconduct.
- charging - taking more than three strides or jumping before hitting an opponent.
- spearing - A player "spears" the other player with the end of his Hockey Stick.
- Boarding - pushing an opponent violently into the boards while the player is facing the boards
Misconduct penalty - These penalties draw a ten minute off ice penalty. These include throwing gear off the ice, not surrendering suspicious gear, verbal abuse of the official, throwing the puck where an official cant reach, or disrupting a penalty shot. The player can be substituted on the ice and these type of penalties are called "two and ten".
Here are also a few stoppage of play calls:
- Icing - occurs when a player shoots the puck across at least two red lines, the opposing team's goal line being the last, and the puck remains untouched
- offsides - where the team in possession of the puck crosses the blue line of the opposing team before the puck crosses.
- to many men on the ice - more than the five allowed players are on the ice. This does not apply when a team pulls their goalie for an extra man or for a penalty call.
- puck out of play - the puck goes over the protective glass.
