{"id":1702,"date":"2015-06-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webinology.website\/nation2021\/penalties-in-hockey\/"},"modified":"2021-11-03T12:55:35","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T16:55:35","slug":"penalties-in-hockey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coachup.com\/nation\/articles\/penalties-in-hockey","title":{"rendered":"Penalties in Hockey"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In hockey<\/a>, certain actions or behaviors are not allowed and will result in a penalty. If you have a penalty called against you, you will have to sit and wait in the penalty box. The length of time that you sit in the penalty box is determined by how severe the penalty was. It is not uncommon in hockey for players from both teams to have to sit in the penalty box at the same time. When a player serves time for a penalty, his team must play shorthanded. This results in a power play for the other team and is an advantageous scoring opportunity. In some cases, two players from the same team will serve a penalty at the same time, meaning that their team must play with only four people on the ice including the goalkeeper. If a third penalty is called against the same team the third penalty can only be served after one of the first two has expired. This is to ensure that no team ever has to play more than two men down at a time. With a delayed penalty, the referee waits to blow the whistle until the team who drew the penalty loses possession of the puck.<\/p>\n

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Here are the classifications of penalties, and a brief description of each different type:<\/p>\n

Minor Penalty:<\/strong> Two minutes. If the shorthanded team is scored on before the penalty is up, the player in the box is released.<\/p>\n