Officials 2023 – Module 6 Types of Penalties – Topic 4 Double Minor Penalties

RULE 18.1 – DOUBLE-MINOR PENALTY

For a Double-minor Penalty, any Player, other than a Goalkeeper, shall be ruled off the ice for four (4) minutes during which time no substitute shall be permitted.

RULE 18.2 – SHORT-HANDED

When a Double-minor Penalty has been signaled by the Referee and the non-offending Team scores during the delay, one (1) of the Minor Penalties shall be washed out and the penalized Player will serve the remaining two (2) minutes of the Double-minor Penalty.

The penalty will be announced as a Double-minor Penalty but only two (2) minutes would be shown on the penalty time clock.

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