All Major Penalties Now Include a Game Misconduct. This Includes All Majors with Or Without

CARHA

RULE CHANGES

2001-2002

• All major penalties now include a Game Misconduct. This includes all majors with or without injury including: boarding, charging, elbowing, holding, hooking, interference, kneeing, tripping; as well as the penalties we have been calling this way for several years, i.e.: cross-checking, high sticking, roughing, slashing, checking from behind.

• Slew-footing: a type of tripping that has been identified as a problem; basically kicking the opponent’s feet out from under him from behind. Slew-footing is a Minor penalty or a Major penalty + Game Misconduct.

• Breakaway, Change in definition. “The player with full control of the puck in the neutral or attacking zone, and having no opposing player between himself and goal/goaltender. This is change from previous years as it now includes the whole of the neutral zone.

• High-sticking. Change in definition. “The action of the player carrying the stick or any part of the stick above the normal height of the shoulder.” Previously this was the waist.

• New signal: BODY-CHECKING: touch the far shoulder with the non-whistle hand/palm.

• Goaltender injury (or faking injury). If play is stopped for goaltender injury, and the spare goalie enters the game, there will be no warm-up and the injured goalie must remain out of the game for one play (until next stoppage).

• Stick measurement after a goal. May now be entertained, but the goal stands regardless.

• Butt-end hooking can be a minor or double minor.

• Throwing the Stick is a minor penalty. Throwing the stick over the boards is a Misconduct.

• Grabbing an opponent’s visor, helmet, chinstrap, or hair is a double minor. Using such action to inflict injury is a Match penalty.

• When a player refuses to surrender his stick for measurement or breaks the stick when asked for a measurement, a Minor penalty and a Misconduct shall be assessed.

CMRA RULE CHANGES

ADDENDUM

In further review of the new rulebook, I’ve come across some other important changes for this year. I’ve given a quick overview here, but referees are advised to purchase their own Rulebook/Casebook and thoroughly review these rules on their own. (There is a limited supply of Rulebook/Casebooks at Tuxedo Sports, $9.95).

• RULE 20: INJURED PLAYERS. If referee notices an open cut or fresh blood on a player’s sweater, he must, at the earliest opportunity, inform the player that the cut must be treated or the jersey changed before being allowed to return to the game.
• RULE 24: PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT. “Chinstraps must be fastened…..”. This rule has now been expanded to include straps of facial protectors.
• RULE 60: GOALS AND ASSISTS. If puck is kicked (with a distinct kicking motion) NO GOAL shall be allowed. As well, if the puck is kicked (again with a distinct kicking motion) by an attacking player and if deflects off of ANY player or stick into the net, NO GOAL shall be allowed. (Read up on Rule 69, Kicking the Puck; this section covers all of the ‘WHAT-IF’S’. The only exception would be if a ‘distinct shot’ (by either an attacker or defender) is taken after the kick.
• RULE 60: GOALS AND ASSISTS. Deflections. No goal shall be allowed if the puck is deliberately directed into the net by any part of the attacker’s body other than the skate.
• RULE 61: HANDLING THE PUCK. “A goal shall not be allowed if the puck has been batted with the hand or any part of the body by the attacking player into the net, or, after being batted, the puck deflects off of any player or stick into the net.
• RULE 62: HIGH STICKING. In Senior hockey, if any injury occurs due to a high stick and the referee feels that is was not intentional contact, a double-minor penalty may be assessed.
• RULE 62 (d): Situation 8: If a puck is high-sticked and deflects off of an opponent and then to a player of the offending team, stop play. The deflection is not ‘possession and control’ by the opponent, therefore the play is illegal.
• RULE 85: TRIPPING. This one causes a lot of controversy. It deals with a defender who dives or slides at the puck carrier and trips him. “(c) Where a players uses her stick, knee, hand, foot, arm or elbow in any manner or falls or slides along the ice directly in the path of the puck, causing the puck carrier to trip and lose possession of the puck, a penalty shall be assessed. Note: If a player in the process of falling or sliding along the ice hits or knocks the puck from her opponent’s stick prior to making actual body contact, the tripping action shall be ignored.” This includes goaltenders.
• RULE 35: PENALTY SHOTS. “In the neutral or attacking zone”. Read over this section. The change applies to all eight penalty shot situations, not just the ‘fouled from behind on a breakaway’.
• RULE 49 (f): BUTT END HOOKING. In the previous notes, I incorrectly stated that this could be a minor or double minor penalty. If it is a restraining foul, i.e.: hooking with the upper end of the stick, it is a minor penalty. The double minor is to be used when a butt end is used to contact an opponent but does not warrant a Match penalty.