IIHF Rule Book 2010 | Page 25

Rulebook 10_51.qxp 9/29/2010 2:56 PM Page 41 f) A team that is in violation of this rule shall not be permitted to make any player sub- NEW stitutions 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 Delay of the Game - Violation of Change of Players after Icing the Puck". g) If a team persists in changing players after they have iced the puck, and warned by NEW the Referee, the Referee shall assess to the offending team a Bench Minor penalty (2’) 470 - DEFINITION OF A GOAL A goal shall be allowed: PUCK IN THE NET 1. Only one goal can be awarded to one team at any single stoppage during the course of any game. 2. The 'lacrosse-like' move whereby the puck is picked up on the blade of the stick and 'whipped' into the net shall be permitted provided the puck is not raised above the height of the shoulders at any time and when released, is not carried higher than the crossbar. 1. When the puck has been put between the goal posts below the crossbar and entirely across the goal line by the stick of a player of the attacking team. 2. If the puck has been put into the goal net in any way by a player of the defending team. 3. If the puck has been deflected into the goal net from the shot of an attacking player by striking any part of a teammate. 4. If a player of the attacking team has been physically interfered by the action of any defending player so as to cause him to be in the goal crease when the puck enters the goal net, unless if in the opinion of the Referee, he had sufficient time to get out of the crease. 5. If the puck should become loose in the goal crease and then put into in the goal by the stick of the attaching player, 6. When the puck deflects directly off the skate of an attacking or defending player. 7. If an attacking player being in the goal crease at the moment the puck crosses a goal line and in NO WAY affect the goalkeeper's ability to make a save, unless the cases describing in Rule 471. 3. All such calls shall be based strictly on the judgement of the Referee 471 - DISALLOWING 1. No goal shall be disallowed after the face-off immediately following the scoring of that goal. 2. The goal crease is defined as a volume, extending from the crease area on the ice up to 1.27 m above the ice surface. 3. "Contact" whether or otherwise, between a goalkeeper and an attacking player may be with the stick or any part of the body. 4. All such calls shall be based strictly on the judgement of the Referee 48 A GOAL a) No goal shall be allowed: 1. If an attacking player deliberately kicks, throws or bats with the hands or otherwise directs the puck by any means other than his stick into the goal net even if the puck has been further deflected by any player, goalkeeper or official, 2. If an attacking player contacted the puck with the stick above the cross bar, 3. If the puck has been directly deflected into the goal net off an official, 4. If an attacking player stands or holds his stick in the goal crease when the puck enters the goal net, unless he has been physically interfered with, by the action of any defending player so as to cause him to be in the goal crease when the puck enters the goal net, unless if in the opinion of the Referee, he had sufficient time to get out of the crease or unless Rule 470 applies. 5. If the goal net has been displaced from its normal position, or the frame of the goal net is not completely flat on the ice. 49