Rulebook 10_51.qxp
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SECTION 4 - PLAYING RULES
400 - PLAYERS
ON THE I CE
1. Each team shall be allowed to have only one goalkeeper on the ice at one time
while play is in progress.
A team shall not have more than six players on the ice at any time while play is in progress.
Bench Minor penalty for Too Many Players on the Ice (Rule 573).
2. This goalkeeper may be removed and substituted by a player. However, such player
shall not be permitted the privileges of the goalkeeper.
The six players shall be:
Goalkeeper
Right Defense
Left Defense
Right Wing
1. If the home team has not been established, the competing teams shall decide which
team shall be the home team by mutual agreement, by the flip of a coin or some
similar method.
2. Home team privileges:
1. Choice of the players bench,
2. Choice of uniform colours.
3. At the face-off following a stoppage of play, the home team shall place its
line-up on the ice after the visiting team.
3. At any time in the game, the Referee may request, through the Captain, that the
visiting team put a playing line-up on the ice to promptly commence play.
402 - START
OF
Center
GAME
AND
Left Wing
PERIODS
a) The game shall begin at the scheduled time with a face-off at the center face-off spot.
A face-off conducted in the same manner shall take place at the start of each period.
b) The teams shall start the game defending the goal nearest to their player bench.
c) Teams shall change ends for each succeeding regular or overtime period.
411 - CHANGE OF PLAYERS
BENCH DURING PLAY
AND
GOALKEEPERS FROM
THE
PLAYER’S
NEW
a) The players and Goalkeepers may be changed at any time from the players bench while
the game is in progress provided that:
1. No warm