Rulebook 10_51.qxp
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412 - CHANGE
OF
PLAYERS PROCEDURE DURING STOPPAGE
OF
PLAY
a) Following a stoppage of play, the visiting team shall promptly place a line-up of players on the ice for play and no substitution shall be made until play has resumed. The
home team may then make any desired substitution, which does not result in the
delay of the game. If there is any undue delay by either team in changing lines, the
Referee shall order the offending team or teams to take their positions immediately
and shall not permit a line change.
b) The procedure shall be carried out as follows:
PLAYER CHANGE SIGNAL RULE 412
1. The Referee shall take his position for the start of the next play, and the Linesman dropping the puck shall proceed promptly to the location of the face-off.
2. The Referee shall allow the visiting team five seconds to make their player changes.
3. After the five seconds, the Referee shall raise his arm to indicate that the visiting team shall no longer make a player change.
4. With the arm still up, the Referee shall allow the home team five seconds to make
their player changes.
5. After the five seconds, the Referee shall drop his arm to indicate that the home
team shall no longer make a player change.
6. As soon as the Referee drops his arm, the Linesman conducting the face-off shall
blow the whistle, which signals both teams that they shall have no more than five
seconds to line-up for the face-off.
7. At the end of the five seconds, or sooner if the facing-off players are ready, the
Linesman shall drop the puck. It shall not be the responsibility of the Linesman to
wait for the players to come into position for the face-off.
This penalty shall be announced as a "Bench Minor Penalty for the Delay of Game Violation of change of players after icing the puck".
c) When a team attempts to make a player change after its allotted period of time, the NEW
referee shall send the player(s) back to the bench and issue a warning to the coach. Any
subsequent infraction of this procedure at any time during the course of the game shall
result in the team receiving a: Bench Minor penalty (see Rule 575).
d) Teams are not permitted to make player's substitution following a false face off, except
when a penalty is assessed that affects the on ice strength of either team.
e) Following a stoppage of play for an icing infraction, the offending team is prohibited from
making any player change until play has resumed.
f) A team that is in violation of this rule shall not be permitted to make any player substitutions prior to the ensuing face-off. Should the stoppage of play following the icing
infraction coincide with a commercial time-out, or should the offending team elect to utilize their team time-out at this stoppage of play, they are still not permitted to make any
player substitutions. However, a team shall be permitted to make a player substitution
to replace a goalkeeper who had been substituted for an extra player, to replace an inured
player or goalkeeper, or when a penalty has been assessed that affects their on-ice
strength. The determination of players on ice will be made when the puck leaves the
offending player's stick
This penalty shall be announced as a "Bench Minor Penalty for the Violation of Change
of Players from the Penalty Bench".
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g) If a team persists in changing players after they have iced the puck, and warned by the
Referee, the Referee shall assess to the offending team a: Bench Minor penalty (2’).
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